Cee Lo Green, currently riding a wave of success with the smash hit ‘Fuck You’ is set to perform at the Grammy Awards this Sunday night in style. He’s rounded up Gwyneth Paltrow and a bunch of The Muppets to be in his backing band. Although he will probably perform the radio edit of the song, entitled ‘Forget You’, Cee Lo approached Matt Henson, the son of the late Muppets creator Jim Henson, to see if he could get some of the furry critters in the band.
“We have a live theater show in New York called ‘Stuffed and Unstrung,’ and we’ve taken a bunch of the characters from that cast and made them into a band and backup singers for Cee Lo,” Henson said. “He’ll be backed by puppets who will make up a very weird and cool band.” Although they’d never worked together, Henson jumped at the opportunity.
“We had never worked with him before, and he’s just a fabulous guy,” Henson says. “I think he’s a lifelong fan of the Muppets, and he had a pretty good idea of what he wanted … I think it will really be an unforgettable version of the song.”
