Oscar News: The Night May Be The Death of Me

According to this article from Yahoo! News, Beyonce, Zac Efron & Vanessa Hudgens, Amanda Seyfried & Dominic Cooper (Mamma Mia!) and host Hugh Jackman will all perform a musical number together as directed by Moulin Rouge's Baz Luhrmann.

I understand that the Academy is desperately trying to appeal to younger demographics, but just thinking about how all those voices will sound together makes me have pre-show nausea. I still have nightmares from Beyonce performing all the Best Song nominees several years ago (Her take on a Phantom of the Opera song- even the very idea of it- makes the blood in my ears curdle), and if that did not work why should this?

Plus, the average age of High School Musical fans is tweendom, and why would they care about a stuffy award show anyway. The Academy should at least invite Kanye to perform and be a jackass, because that would at least be interesting if not exactly pertinent to the show. I am still holding out hope that the combination of M.I.A. and AR Rahman will save the day.

Amazing^10: M.I.A. at the Grammy's

Yesterday, February 8th, was the date of the Grammy's and coincidentally the due date of M.I.A.'s first baby. Not only was she nominated for Record of the Year for "Paper Planes" (she lost, but it's okay) but she found it in her unbelievably fabulous self to perform "Swagga Like Us," which samples her song, along with rappers Jay-Z, Lil' Wayne, T.I., and Kanye West (who is growing a mullet to show how genius he is). Here are some pictures of M.I.A.'s sweet versions of maternity wear, which I sincerely hope she starts designing because she looks amazing:

I hope she births that lucky baby soon, because her song co-written with AR Rahman for Slumdog Millionaire is up for an Oscar on the 22nd, and it would certainly spice up the program with some much needed non-stuffiness if she were there and blew everybody out of their seats.

Images found on The Daily Mail page http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1139386/You-wont-Mothercare-British-rapper-MIA-performs-Grammys-sheer-dress-babys-date.html
Images from Getty.