Zach Bryan leads the pack on the 2024 Billboard Music Awards with 21 nominations, adopted by Taylor Swift and Morgan Wallen, signaling a rustic music takeover.
“I simply really feel like that is sort of what we’d like, as a result of music is music on the finish of the day, and it may well transcend neighborhood, faith, gender, so many issues,” comic and Billboard Music Awards host Michelle Buteau advised Fox Information Digital.
Bryan and Wallen are each nominated within the prime artist, prime streaming songs artist, and prime Billboard 100 and 200 classes, in addition to for prime nation artist and nation male artist, amongst different nominations. Â Â Â
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Zach Bryan, left, and Morgan Wallen dominate the 2024 Billboard Music Awards nominations. (Getty Pictures)
Buteau continued, “I believe it is about time. And music is a type of issues, too… that carry[s] folks collectively very like comedy. I really like when a tune comes on that folks do not assume I am purported to know the phrases to, however I do. After which we’re singing it collectively. And that is like a complete second. And truthfully, like, it at all times comes all the way down to artwork and tradition for me, interval.”
Buteau, a longtime comic who has hosted exhibits like “The Circle” on Netflix and appeared in movies like “Marry Me” and “Babes,” stated she was thrilled to be requested to host the present.
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“It is wild whenever you get to observe one thing on a regular basis. After which to really be in it and have a very good time and be, like, I wish to do that on a regular basis. It is wonderful. I am like, how do I get my Ryan Seacrest on in a plus-size gown?” she stated.
Comic Michelle Buteau is internet hosting the 2024 Billboard Music Awards. (Netflix)
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Although Swift would not lead the nominations at this 12 months’s ceremony, she is probably the most adorned feminine BBMA artist of all time, one other honor to go alongside her unimaginable two-year run on “The Eras Tour.”
“Music is music on the finish of the day, and it may well transcend neighborhood, faith, gender, so many issues.”
“Actually, can we simply [take] a second, a spherical of applause for Taylor? All her exhausting work and them good knees. I imply, it ain’t simple,” Buteau joked. “I stroll my canine and I’ve to bend over to choose up their conditions. And I am like, wow, you may actually stretch extra usually. Taylor is out right here doing it for everybody and everyone, all around the world.”
“She fills the room with love. So, , it isn’t within the nominations. It is within the feeling,” she added.
Buteau praised Taylor Swift for her exhausting work on “The Eras Tour.” (Erika Goldring/TAS24/Getty Pictures for TAS Rights Administration)
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As host, Buteau stated it’s simple to remain impartial on who she’s rooting for and in the end feels “the audiences will inform you who they reply to.”Â
“But additionally, on the finish of the day, they’re simply wonderful artists that we’re shaking our booties to, what I imply? So both manner, you may’t lose. Plus, we by no means lose. We solely be taught,” she added.
The BBMAs will function performances by most of the nominees, together with nation stars Shaboozey, Jelly Roll and Megan Moroney, in addition to Coldplay, Linkin Park, Tyla, Teddy Swims and Ok-pop stars SEVENTEEN and Stray Children.
Coldplay is among the many performers set to take the stage for the 2024 Billboard Music Awards. (Anna Lee)
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Buteau, a mother of 5-year-old twins with husband Gijs van der Most, is able to benefit from the present despite the fact that she’s working.Â
“My husband goes to ‘babysit’ so I can go work and see all these wonderful performers that I solely actually hearken to in my minivan once I’m choosing the youngsters up. So, like, I imply, even the truth that anyone goes to be bringing me water. And a meal. And wine, are you kidding? I would like,” she quipped.
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Buteau did make it to Beyoncé’s “Renaissance Tour” date in Amsterdam along with her husband for Father’s Day, however didn’t make it to “The Eras Tour.”
Buteau missed out on Taylor Swift’s “Eras Tour,” however did make it to Beyoncé’s “Renaissance Tour.” (Getty Pictures)
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Like many individuals, although, she skilled it via social media “as a result of I can stay vicariously via everyone’s Insta tales.”Â
“I really like folks masking these little cute moments of Taylor bringing her boyfriend out on stage and stuff in London, all of these issues make me really feel like I am part of it, too. And so, I actually sort of, like, love a really lengthy tour as a result of I am simply, like, I really feel like I do know quite a bit about it,” stated Buteau.
Buteau skilled “The Eras Tour” by way of social media, together with the massive moments like Travis Kelce’s shock look throughout one among Swift’s performances in London. (Gareth Cattermole/TAS24/Getty Pictures for TAS Rights Administration)
She added, “I’ve all of the bracelets, I am doing all of the issues. My daughter and I nonetheless sing ‘Merciless Summer season’ on the best way to high school.”
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The 2024 Billboard Music Awards are set to air Thursday evening on FOX.Â
