{"id":792883,"date":"2019-02-09T14:03:31","date_gmt":"2019-02-09T21:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=792506"},"modified":"2019-02-09T14:03:31","modified_gmt":"2019-02-09T21:03:31","slug":"grammys-producer-ken-ehrlich-ariana-grande-attack-was-a-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/grammys-producer-ken-ehrlich-ariana-grande-attack-was-a-surprise\/","title":{"rendered":"Grammys Producer Ken Ehrlich: Ariana Grande Attack \u2018Was a Surprise\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Though the 61st Grammy Awards are only one night away, the biggest news cycle surrounding the show this week has focused more on who\u2019s not attending than who is. After Ariana Grande was reported to have pulled out of the slate of Grammy performers<\/a> because of clashes with the production team, the show\u2019s longtime executive producer Ken Ehrlich said the reason was that the singer \u201cfelt it was too late to pull something together\u201d \u2014 but Grande fired back on Twitter that Ehrlich was \u201clying about me\u201d and \u201cmy creativity and self-expression was stifled.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cI saw those tweets and what she said. I guess it was a surprise,\u201d\u00a0Erhlich tells\u00a0Rolling Stone<\/em> at rehearsals for the show this weekend. \u201cI will say this, and they don\u2019t want me to say it but I\u2019m going to say it: The thing that probably bothered me more than whatever else she said about me is when she said I\u2019m not collaborative.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fact of the matter is \u2014 and I actually wrote a little thing in the middle of the night that I\u2019m not going to do anything about, but, I mean. You can ask Christina Aguilera, who I asked to do \u2018It\u2019s a Man\u2019s World\u2019 for James Brown,\u201d Ehrlich added. \u201cYou can ask\u00a0Melissa Etheridge, who finished her cancer treatment and I put her out on stage, bald, doing Janis Joplin.\u00a0You can ask Ricky Martin who overnight became the creator of the Latin music revolution. Ask Mary J. Blige, who was scared shitless to go out there and do \u2018No More Drama.\u2019 I basically worked with her to mold it. Ask H.E.R. who\u2019s in this show.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ehrlich says he never spoke to Grande directly, but worked with her management team, and that he usually does \u201cnot have this happen.\u201d \u201cI don\u2019t know if I\u2019m good at anything else, but I understand artists and I can hear other artists in an artist,\u201d he says. \u201cI don\u2019t say to people, \u2018This is what you should do.\u2019 I approach it casually and say, hey, this might be a good idea, let\u2019s find something in the middle.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 61st Grammys airs Sunday night on CBS from the Staples Center in Los Angeles. Dua Lipa, Cardi B and Post Malone are among those scheduled to perform, with Alicia Keys hosting the three-and-a-half hour live show.<\/p>\n

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Though the 61st Grammy Awards are only one night away, the biggest news cycle surrounding the show this week has focused more on who\u2019s not attending than who is. After Ariana Grande was reported to have pulled out of the slate of Grammy performers because of clashes with the production team, the show\u2019s longtime executive […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-792883","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 21:22:48","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}