{"id":803874,"date":"2020-02-06T07:04:38","date_gmt":"2020-02-06T14:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=948394"},"modified":"2020-02-06T07:04:38","modified_gmt":"2020-02-06T14:04:38","slug":"janelle-monae-to-perform-at-the-2020-oscars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/janelle-monae-to-perform-at-the-2020-oscars\/","title":{"rendered":"Janelle Mon\u00e1e to Perform at the 2020 Oscars"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/10460632o.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Janelle Mon\u00e1e is the latest star to join the lineup of esteemed performers at this Sunday\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/oscars\/\" id=\"auto-tag_oscars\" data-tag=\"oscars\">Oscars<\/a> telecast. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/billie-eilish-academy-awards-oscars-945236\/\">Like Billie Eilish<\/a>, she will be delivering a \u201cspecial performance,\u201d although the details are under wraps at this time.<\/p>\n<p>This past year, Mon\u00e1e appeared in&nbsp;<em>Harriet<\/em> alongside Cynthia Erivo, who is nominated for the song \u201cStand Up\u201d from the film. She will also perform the track at the ceremony. Mon\u00e1e\u2019s performance appears to be separate.<\/p>\n<p>During a conversation with the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kylebuchanan\/status\/1225269149582024704?s=21\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><em>New York Times<\/em><\/a>\u2018 Kyle Buchanan at Aflre Woodard\u2019s annual Sistahs\u2019 Soir\u00e9e, she invoked her hometown divulging no other details about the performance. \u201cI can tell you that I\u2019m ready to light the stage on fire \u2014 for my ancestors and for Kansas City,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>At this time, Eilish\u2019s \u201cspecial performance\u201d has also been kept secret. An official \u201cin memoriam\u201d performance has not yet been announced. As is custom, each of the Best Original Song nominees will perform, meaning that Erivo is joined by Elton John (<em>Rocketman<\/em>), Randy Newman (<em>Toy Story 4<\/em>), Chrissy Metz (<em>Breakthrough<\/em>) and<em> Idina<\/em> Menzel with Aurora (<em>Frozen 2<\/em>).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B8NWEZHF1YJ\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"12\" readability=\"-7.609756097561\"><\/blockquote>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/janelle-monae-oscars-special-performance-948394\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Janelle Mon\u00e1e is the latest star to join the lineup of esteemed performers at this Sunday\u2019s Oscars telecast. Like Billie Eilish, she will be delivering a \u201cspecial performance,\u201d although the details are under wraps at this time. This past year, Mon\u00e1e appeared in&nbsp;Harriet alongside Cynthia Erivo, who is nominated for the song \u201cStand Up\u201d from [&hellip;]<\/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-803874","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-23 13:52:44","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\/803874","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=803874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}