Mary Lambert on Tuesday performed
acoustic versions of three songs live at Billboard's studio,
including She Keeps Me Warm, an extension of Same Love, the
hit gay marriage anthem she collaborated on with Macklemore &
Ryan Lewis. (The video is embedded on this page. Visit
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In Same Love – available on
The Heist – Lambert sings the chorus, “And I can't change;
even if I tried; even if I wanted to; my love she keeps me warm,”
as Macklemore raps.
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis have
received 7 Grammy nominations, including best song for Same Love.
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Ryan Lewis receive 7 Grammy noms, including best song for Same
Love.)
Lambert also performed I
Know Girls
(Body
Love) and Wheatus' Teenage
Dirtbag.
In introducing Teenage Dirtbag,
Lambert stated: “I was in high school when I came out. I was like
17. And I heard that song, and I was like floored. I was like,
'This is a lesbian love song.' 'Cause I thought it was a woman
singing. And then I found out that it was just, you know, a guy with
a high voice, which was awesome, too. I was so excited because it
captured all of those, like, those feelings in high school – your
first love and, like, they don't even know that you exist and then
they do know you exist. It captured that time for me, you know, that
first love time.”