Hey y’all, if you are looking for the Grammy Nominees click here.

Here are some highlights!

*Imogen Heap, one of our “Monday Morning Music” artists is nominated for Best New Artist along with James Blunt, Chris Brown, Corinne Bailey Rae (who is amazing), and one of my favorite Idol winners, Carrie Underwood.

*Ladysmith Black Mambazo…remember this from mean girls, when Lohan’s momma in the movie goes “But you LOVE Ladysmith Black Mambazo”…well, they are a real group and are nominated in the World Music Category for Best Contemporary World Music Album.

*Mary J. Blige leads the nominations with eight! One of her nominations is for “One” which she recorded with U2’s Bono. If you haven’t listened to this, download it right now because it is amazing.

*The Red Hot Chili Peppers are rockin it this year with six nominations.

*JT has four nominations for his album “FutureSex/LoveSounds.” Other artists with four nods are Beyoncé, Bryan-Michael Cox, Gnarls Barkley, Israel Houghton, T.I. James Blunt, the Dixie Chicks, John Mayer, Danger Mouse, Prince, Rick Rubin, will.i.am and John Williams each earn five nods.

*That awful song “My Humps” is nominated. Honestly that could possibly be the worst song I’ve ever heard.

*There are wayyyy to many categories to post a full list of the nominations but check it out for some new tunes. Obviously “Grey’s” soundtrack music is all over the Grammy nods so I really do hope they win for their Soundtrack.

49th Annual GRAMMY Awards will be held on “GRAMMY Sunday,” Feb. 11, at Staples Center in Los Angeles and once again will be broadcast live in high-definition TV and 5.1 surround sound on CBS from 8 – 11:30 p.m. (ET/PT).

You bet the Beet will give you full coverage, it possibly will include nip slips and crotch shots but here at the Beet we also take time to sit back and enjoy the music.

Step up! Be a man! If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem.

Lindsay Lohan needs you to join her cause. She is definitely against something, and she is definitely willing to fight for it, and she definitely NEEDS AND WANTS YOUR HELP. The exact nature of this cause is inconclusive right now, but who cares? Al Gore and the Clinton Administration have already lent it their full support. Come on board!

SIGN THE LOHANIFESTO!

“Every move I make at this point has been magnified more than I expected, and I probably did take my new found freedom a little too far.”

“I look forward to a new year, new music and a new me, I’m just getting started.”

Since we are on a “geez, these girls are nuts” bender right now, here is a fun little video of pics of the Triumverate of Darkness, “Linsday, Paris, and Brit Brit.” It is short and amusing.
Here is a wrap up of why I am posting this.
1) Britney shows va jay jay, also gets photographed just being drunk and crazy.
2) Paris says because she cares after her harem of rat dogs and other animals ie- she has her grandparents take care of them, she would like to get sperminated asap so she can have 4 kids in 5 years.
3) Linsday sends this letter to the press…

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Scary Spice Mel B., who is clearly not dating Eddie Murphy anymore, responded to his very public allegations that the baby she’s carrying may not be his:

She sent out another one of her crazy-ass drunk/high/whatever emails. From Page Six:

LINDSAY Lohan is preparing to clean up her image and go to war with the media with the help of a high-powered friend - former Vice President Al Gore.

“Al Gore will help me. He came up to me last night and said he would be very happy to have a conversation with me,” Lohan wrote last week in a rambling, semi-literate e-mail to her friends and lawyers.

In the bizarre message read by Page Six, Lohan burbled, “If he is willing to help me, let’s find out. Hilary [sic] Clinton, Bill Clinton, and Evan Metroplis [sic], and John Daur who works with them would be willing, if we just ask. If we just ASK.”

Lohan was apparently inspired to send out the e-mail by a Page Six item on her “mean girls diva fit” at a GQ magazine party in L.A. Referring to a supermarket tabloid report claiming she had overdosed on drugs, she wrote, “Let’s sue the tabloids for saying the things they say. Defamation of character.”

Invoking what she puzzlingly calls the “way of the future-Howard Hughes,” her desire is to “release a politically/morally correct, fully adequite [sic] letter to the press.”

Lohan says she wants to state her opinions on “how our society should be educated for the better of our country. Our people . . . because I have such an impact on our younger generations, as well as generations older than me. Which we all know and can obviously see.”

Lohan then mentions taking a mystery person she refers to as “LR” to court for “what she’s done to me.

“It’s my life. I want to live it. People cannot lie and think that it is okay to continue on having done so. I have had many ups and downs, as do we all. But to make false accusations to one girl is unjust in my opinion. I am willing to do anything I need to get my life the way it should be.”

Lohan said she wanted to “hold a press conference” and “will do anything necessary to do so.” She said she is at “such a young and tender age in a woman’s life. It’s enough already, I’ve had enough and I am going to be the one to make a change.”

Lohan’s representative, Leslie Sloane Zelnik, had no comment.

Perez thinks the “LR” refers to Lindsay Ratowski, LiLo’s former assistant. They did not part on good terms. I believe Ratowski is now Jessica Biel’s assistant, and Lohan threw some sort of fit a couple of weeks ago when she ran into Ratowski with Biel at a party (that may be the GQ item in question).

Poor Leslie Sloane Zelnick. I’m sure it really sucks to get out of bed on days like this.

Update: Defamer has the full text of the email.

Tom Cruise and Kate Cruise (apparently that’s what we’re supposed to call her now, as the last shreds of her adorable, likable Joey Potter-ness have at last been phased out) are going to have yet another wedding reception here in Los Angeles. This one’s for the folks who couldn’t be bothered to trek out to Italy for the mediafest that was their original wedding. The party will be held at the Beverly Hills estate of Paula Wagner, who is Cruise’s producing partner.

Tom and Kate (uggggh I hate calling her that) are freshly back to the States after their 13-day honeymoon in the Maldives. The older Cruise kids (the ones that call Nicole Kidman mom, when she makes her annual phone call) weren’t invited, but Suri tagged along, ostensibly because, away from the watchful eye of TomKat, she may be prone to DNA tests and other evil tools of science. Says a source: “It was a family occasion. They played with Suri all the time, filming her on a camcorder.”