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" Ariana Grande will perform at the 2014 MTV Video Music Awards. The &amp;#039;Problem&amp;#039; singer is the first performer announced for this year&amp;#039;s ceremony, which will take place at The Forum in Inglewood, California on Sunday, August 24.   She will perform her new Zedd-assisted single &amp;#039;Break Free&amp;#039;, which is taken from her upcoming second studio album My Everything. The album will be released the day after the VMAs.  &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m so excited to perform &amp;#039;Break Free&amp;#039; at the 2014 VMAs,&amp;quot; said Grande. &amp;quot;I can&amp;#039;t wait for my loves to see what we&amp;#039;ve been working on.&amp;quot; Justin Timberlake, Macklemore &amp;amp;amp; Ryan Lewis, Bruno Mars and Taylor Swift were among the major winners at the 2013 VMAs, which also featured the first &amp;#039;N Sync performance in over a decade. The ceremony was also noteworthy for Miley Cyrus and Robin Thicke&amp;#039;s controversial performance of &amp;#039;We Can&amp;#039;t Stop&amp;#039; and &amp;#039;Blurred Lines&amp;#039;. Watch the video for Ariana Grande&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Problem&amp;#039; below:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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