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Destiny's Child Promise 'Drama-Free' Grammy Night

Group's ousted members share in nominations, but trio are focused on five awards, performance, Beyoncé says.

One year after their disharmony was on display at the 2000 Grammys, nominees Destiny's Child are promising a "drama-free" Grammy night this time around.

Last year's ceremony brought a rather awkward changing of the guard within the group as members LeToya Luckett and LaTavia Roberson saw their seats to the ceremony snagged by new members Farrah Franklin and Michelle Williams. A few hits, another group member (Franklin) and a lot of water have gone under the bridge since then, and the group hopes that will mean a smoother go of it this year.

"I'm claiming it's gonna be a drama-free Grammy night," group member Kelly Rowland told MTV News.

The potential for drama seemed high going into the ceremony, as ousted group members Luckett and Roberson share in two of the group's four nominations for their songwriting work on "Say My Name" (which is up for Song of the Year and Best R&B Song).

"They definitely earned it," Beyoncé Knowles told MTV News of Luckett and Roberson's nominations. "If you write on a song, you write on a song, but we totally are not even thinking about that because we're up for five, and we're performing, and we're blessed. All we want to think about is just all the great things that are going on that night, so, if it happens, then that's great.

"But I do have to say that it only takes you writing one, two, three words in a song to be listed as a writer," she said.

In addition to Song of the Year and Best R&B Song, "Say My Name" will also vie for Record of the Year and Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocal, while "Independent Women Part 1" is up for Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media.

"I think the perfomance means the most," Beyoncé said. "To accomplish perfoming on the Grammys is huge. I can't even believe that we're performing on the Grammys. We don't have to win anything. An acceptance speech takes like 20 seconds, a performance is four minutes."

You can catch that performance and any other Destiny's drama (or lack thereof) on CBS' live broadcast of the Grammy Awards at 8 p.m. (live ET, delayed PT) on Wednesday night (February 21).

(To see more from MTV News' interview with Destiny's Child, check out "Backstage at the Grammys," which airs live Wednesday at 7 p.m. You can check out even more from that interview in our MTV News Online feature "Destiny's Child: Survivors," which will roll out on Grammy night. MTVNews.com will also offer complete coverage the night of the awards show, including up-to-the-minute news, Grammy-related feature interviews and a place for users to share their thoughts on the show with the rest of the world.)

(MTV.com's parent company, Viacom, also owns CBS.)

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