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Listen, True Beliebers: I know you’re really excited for the Grammys. Like, really excited. And why wouldn’t you be? After all, not only is JB up for a pair of awards — Best New Artist and Best Pop Vocal Album — but he’s performing on the big show too.

But I’m here to tell you that you might want to make backup plans during the Grammy broadcast (Sunday, February 13, at 8 p.m. ET/PT on CBS, in case you’re a masochist or something). Why? Because it could be a pretty lousy night for Justin Bieber. They’re not going to cut his mic off mid-performance or pants him or anything like that, mostly because the Grammys stopped pantsing people after the tragic Kriss Kross incident of 1992. But they will do something equally bad, at least in the eyes of the Bieber’s die-hard fans: They will probably send him home empty-handed.
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If you are a producer, director or project coordinator for any type of film, television or video project, you know how challenging it can be to find production music that encapsulates fully the important themes and the message of your project. Not only is production music and background music for film and television often incredibly expensive, but the time required to shop around to the multitude of music providers or composers is also extensive. And since musical originality is often a concern, typically producers with limited budgets that can’t afford to pay a composer to create a score of music specifically for their film, television show or video project, but can buy popular music or previously used film scores run the risk of hearing the very same production music and background music they paid so dearly for in another film weeks or months later.
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