{"id":177291,"date":"2025-08-26T14:57:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T14:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/177291\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T14:57:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T14:57:11","slug":"conan-gray-doja-cat-tate-mcrae-more-will-perform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/177291\/","title":{"rendered":"Conan Gray, Doja Cat, Tate McRae, More Will Perform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Post Malone and Jelly Roll will also perform when the awards show airs live Sept. 7 on CBS from the UBS Arena in New York<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/conan-gray\/\" id=\"auto-tag_conan-gray\" data-tag=\"conan-gray\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Conan Gray<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/tate-mcrae\/\" id=\"auto-tag_tate-mcrae\" data-tag=\"tate-mcrae\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tate McRae<\/a> will make their main stage debuts at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/2025-mtv-vma-nominations-lady-gaga-kendrick-lamar-1235400309\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2025 MTV Video Music Awards<\/a> when the show airs live Sept. 7 on CBS from the UBS Arena in New York. They join newly-announced performers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/jelly-roll\/\" id=\"auto-tag_jelly-roll\" data-tag=\"jelly-roll\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jelly Roll<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/doja-cat\/\" id=\"auto-tag_doja-cat\" data-tag=\"doja-cat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Doja Cat<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/post-malone\/\" id=\"auto-tag_post-malone\" data-tag=\"post-malone\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Post Malone<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tGray will perform \u201cVodka Cranberry\u201d from his recently released fourth studio album <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/conan-gray-wishbone-review-1235409024\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wishbone<\/a> for his first appearance on the show since 2022, when he performed \u201cDisaster\u201d and \u201cMemories\u201d on the Extended Play stage. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tMcRae\u2019s choreography-forward performance style is what the VMAs are all about, or used to be, at least. The singer released her third studio album, <a data-id=\"1235272725\" data-type=\"post\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/tate-mcrae-new-album-so-close-to-what-the-kid-laroi-1235272725\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">So Close to What, <\/a>earlier this year, led by the single \u201cSports Car.\u201d She also found success with singles \u201cRevolving Door\u201d and \u201cIt\u2019s Ok I\u2019m Ok,\u201d giving her a few options for her debut on the awards show.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tDoja Cat\u2019s return comes as she launches into her upcoming fifth studio album, Vie, out Sept. 26. The rapper and singer recently shared the \u201980s-tinged record<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/doja-cat-jealous-type-single-1235413785\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> \u201cJealous Type,\u201d <\/a>produced by Jack Antonoff and Y2K. The VMAs will mark the first live performance of the song and her first appearance on the show since 2023. <\/p>\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tMeanwhile, Malone will be taking the stage for the first time since 2018. He\u2019s nominated this year for \u201cPour Me A Drink,\u201d his collaboration with Blake Shelton from his country record F-1 Trillion. Jelly Roll also appeared on that record, but has plenty of his own songs to bring to the forefront in his VMAs debut. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe new slate of performers joins previously announced artists <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/sabrina-carpenter-new-album-mans-best-friend-fame-1235359144\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sabrina Carpenter,<\/a> J Balvin, <a data-id=\"1235414109\" data-type=\"post\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/sombrs-i-barely-know-her-review-1235414109\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sombr<\/a>, and Alex Warren. 2025 MTV VMAs Video Vanguard Award recipient Mariah Carey will also perform. Additionally, Busta Rhymes will be recognized with the inaugural MTV VMA Rock the Bells Visionary Award, and Ricky Martin is set to receive the first Latin Icon Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Post Malone and Jelly Roll will also perform when the awards show airs live Sept. 7 on CBS&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":177292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[100547,100548,171,66615,975,10093,60010,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-177291","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-conan-gray","9":"tag-doja-cat","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-jelly-roll","12":"tag-music","13":"tag-post-malone","14":"tag-tate-mcrae","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115095656515640123","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}