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\nQueen Latifah is getting ready to host the American Music Awards on Monday night. The last and only time she hosted was back in 1995 as part of trio that included Tom Jones and country singer Lorrie Morgan.<\/p>

Read more \u2018Mono 222,\u2019 \u2018Dreaming of Lions\u2019 and \u2018I Got Bombed at Harvey\u2019s\u2019 Top Mammoth Lakes Film Festival Awards \u2013 Film News in Brief<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s been a long time, but it was exciting then and It\u2019s exciting now,\u201d Latifah tells me. \u201cI\u2019m just a little bit different person, but you know, we still gotta make get it popping like we did then.\u201d\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n

\n\tTaylor Swift leads the night with eight nominations.\n\n\t\n\n<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI don\u2019t know if I call myself a Swiftie, but I\u2019m a fan of Taylor Swift, for sure,\u201d Latifah says. \u201cI always have been. I think she makes great songs. She makes really great, catchy songs that we love.\u201dLatifah isn\u2019t surprised at all by Swift\u2019s stardom.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cShe was able to get those records played on the radio. That\u2019s step one. Can you get your record played? Latifah explains. \u201cWhen she got her records played, there were a bunch of girls who looked like her who connected to those songs. She wrote to what a lot of young girls were feeling, and young people, for that matter. And then, as you got to hear her talk, she seemed to be like someone who wanted to stick up for people rather than talk down to people.\u201d<\/p>\n

\nAre you going to perform during the show?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tThis isn\u2019t the Queen Latifah show. It is the American Music Awards, and there are lovely people that are nominated, and they deserve to have the stage and really rock the stage. I\u2019m here to facilitate their greatness, that\u2019s all I\u2019m here to do.<\/p>\n

\nBut you are American music royalty.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tThank you, but I\u2019m always prepared for whatever. Roll up with a piano and if a guitar appears from nowhere, I\u2019m sure I can figure something out.\n\n\t\n<\/p>\n

\nHow do you prepare for a night like this? Do you do a deep dive on every nominee?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tI can\u2019t say I\u2019m such a musicologist that I\u2019m familiar with everyone\u2019s everything but, of course, I\u2019ll play their music to get familiar with whomever I might not be familiar with. With some people, I realize I know their music, I just didn\u2019t know their names. I\u2019ll definitely get more familiar with everybody\u2019s songs, and maybe some of their stories \u2014 where they come from, what they\u2019re about because that can be very engaging as well.<\/p>

Read more How Marlon Wayans Survived Hell, Hollywood and Harvey Weinstein<\/a><\/p>\n

\nHow many outfit changes will you have?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tA girl doesn\u2019t tell her outfit change, but let\u2019s say no less than three.<\/p>\n

\nWhat was the last song you really belted out?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tI was singing in the mirror last night. There\u2019s a girl who made this version of \u201cI Will Survive,\u201d and I just watched it on Instagram. Bray\u2019s Anatomy is her name. I watched her singing with all these harmonies, and before you knew it I was singing, \u201cI Will Survive\u201d with her.<\/p>\n

\nYour last album was \u201cPersona\u201d in 2009. Any plans for a new album?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tI am going to try and and drop something this year. I guess I have to, at least start letting some of this music out that I\u2019ve been holding on my computer for so long. I play it so much that I feel like it\u2019s already out. I think I will actually share it with the people this year. There\u2019s nothing that really sounds like me or is my style that is out there. There\u2019s bits and pieces here and there, but there\u2019s only one me, so I think I need to put some of this music out.<\/p>\n

\nWill it be hip hop, jazz, soul?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tIt\u2019ll be a mixture.<\/p>\n

\nWhen will we see you in a musical again? (Latifah earned an Oscar nomination for her work as Mama Morton in 2002\u2019s \u201cChicago.\u201d)<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tYou gotta call the people and say, \u201cWhen are you going to put Queen in a musical again?\u201d They listen to you! I don\u2019t think there\u2019s any type of movie that I like making more than\u00a0 a musical because, honestly, I like rehearsal. You don\u2019t get to rehearse on everything else, you get proper rehearsal when you do a musical. And it just feels so good to be able to make those kinds of movies, and people love them, the audience really gets a treat when a great musical comes out.<\/p>\n

\nHow about a musical on Broadway?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tThat has been an option so it\u2019s always possible.\n\n\t\n<\/p>\n

\nWe gotta get the Jersey girl on Broadway.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tI can shoot through the tunnel real quick and make it happen for the people.<\/p>\n

\n\tDick Clark Productions and CBS bring back the AMAs on Memorial Day, May 25, and will air the event live on CBS at 8 p.m. ET and 5 p.m. PT. The ceremony will also be streamed and made available on demand by Paramount+.<\/p>\n

\n\tAnd make sure to check out Variety<\/em>\u2018s social channels for our coverage of the red carpet starting at 1 p.m PT\/4 p.m. ET.<\/p>

Read more Memorial Day Weekend Box Office: \u2018Mandalorian and Grogu\u2019 Opens to $100 Million Domestically, $163 Million Globally<\/a><\/p>\n

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