Kapoor broke down what to expect and previewed some of the evenings biggest performances, fromChappell RoantoDoechii.
(The ceremony will begin at 8 p.m.
ET, airing on CBS and streaming on Paramount+.)
Chappell Roan’s performance is one of the expected highlights at the 67th annual Grammy AwardsErika Goldring/WireImage
Then we made a collective decision that the show must go on.
How do we show people that we actually love this city?
Was there ever serious talk about not doing it?It was never that we were not going to.
But it was really checking in with first of all, we wanted to confirm that it was safe.
That was our primary concern.
We already had months of planning.
But then the tone shifts.
Los Angeles has actually been quite incredible in the past few weeks.
I think we have a stronger sense of community than we have had for a very long time.
What can we do on the show?
What do you need?
The opening of the show is definitely going to touch on our love for Los Angeles.
Were putting a spotlight on small businesses that may have been impacted by the fires.
Trevor Noah seems like the perfect guy for navigating this kind of complex tone.We love Trevor.
We are so grateful for his participation.
We think hes the perfect Grammys host.
He approaches things with the best side of humor, the most kind and compassionate outreach.
He and his team are absolutely lovely and so cooperative to work with.
By show day it will set the perfect tone.
She landed not only Best New Artist, but she landed in so many of the major categories.
Theyve actually been so great to work with, and theres so much creativity brewing around her.
And its artist-driven, it is artist first.
So much of the creativity that you see and the visualization of a performance is Chappell.
Shes had an impressive tour with great production.Sabrinas level of touring and stuff was already quite grand.
Shes done these amazing performances and shes going to be taking the Grammy stage for the first time.
Absolutely lovely artist to deal with.
She has her own unique perspective.
What Ive seen, fromher Tiny Desk concertto Colbert.
is that everything is really unique.
When she comes to the Grammy stage, she will do something that has not been seen before.
Billie Eilishis a Grammy veteran at this point.What an incredible career shes had so far.
Billie and Finneas, an incredible body of work.
Every time theyre on our stage, they do something thats just completely them.
What she represents is Los Angeles too she is part of L.A. culture.
AndShakiras returning to the Grammy stage?Its been quite a while since Shakira has been on our stage.
Her album is absolutely incredible.
The musics always amazing, but the production value is going to be next level.
Sometimes in our show in certain acts you will have more than 10 minutes of non-stop music.
Because we literally utilize every free performance space literally, music performances can happen anywhere.
We always like to evolve, so we dont like to repeat ourselves.
Thats one of our challenges how do you make the show feel fresh?
How do you continue to take people by surprise and want them to tune in?
This year, obviously we have challenges because we want to honor what has happened here in this city.
We love making this show, and we hope that everybody watching feels that love.
But this year theres another portion to that, and thats the city of Los Angeles.
And we hope people watching all feel the love that we have for this city.
