Beyoncé has been added to the lineup of the Sept. 13 Video Music Awards, where she’ll join her husband Jay-Z, as well as Green Day, Muse, Taylor Swift, P!nk, and Lady GaGa. Also, the VMAs are bringing back that “house band” idea where lesser lights of the music galaxy collaborate with one act as the show goes into interstitial moments—the house band is the D.C. go-go outfit the Uncalled 4 Band (a.k.a. UCB), and it’ll be led by tourmate and fellow Washingtonian Wale while collaborating with with The All-American Rejects, Pitbull, and 3OH!3 over the course of the evening. (See what I meant about “lesser lights” there?) A performance of the UCB and Wale collaborating on “Sexy Lady” after the jump.
2009 Video Music Awards [MTV]
Wale and UCB perform “Sexy Lady” [YouTube]
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Don’t like All-American Rejects much at all and agree their second-string status is aesthetically deserved — but I’m sort of surprised MTV thinks so. They’ve been quietly moving truckloads of product the last couple of years. I was marveling at their success just a few days ago when I read this statistic in one of Paul Grein’s chart roundup columns:
“The Peas are the first group ever to amass four 2 million-selling downloads. The Fray and the All-American Rejects have each accumulated three.”