Bon Iver turns down performing at Grammys

After receiving an honorable bid to perform at this year’s upcoming Grammys, lead singer of Bon Iver Justin Vernon told Billboard that he and his band will not be performing at Sunday’s ceremony. While the group is nominated for four awards, Vernon’s displeasure with having to settle for a collaboration instead of performing original music from the group didn’t sit very well, so they’ve decided to decline the invite. Vernon goes on to state:

“We wanted to play our music, but were told that we couldn’t play. We had to do a collaboration with someone else, and we just felt like it was such a large stage, we’re getting nominated for this record that we made. Me and Brian [Joseph] and a bunch of our fucking friends and we were given accolades for it, and all of a sudden we were being asked to play music that had nothing to do with that. We kind of said ‘fuck you’ a little bit and they sort of acted like they wanted us to play, but I don’t think they wanted us to play.”