Okay, I’m here, and I’m connected…get ready cuz we’re runnin live at the CMT Awards!
- Taylor opens the show with a hilarious skit with Bill Engvall and a HYSTERICAL rap with T-Payne…
- Dierks Bentley is getting Sideways with the SHOW OPENER!!!! Way to go Dierks!!!! He sounds and looks amazing! Lots of white tank-tops in the audience…Not sure I’m totally loving the dancing around the stage. Dierks is looking pretty proud, and he should…Great Performance.
- The stage at this year’s show is HUGE….appears to wrap around the entire arena…Country Girl is in row 2…
- Bill Engvall looks fabulous…sporting a suit w/out a tie. He’s really funny….not always politically correct, but still funny….He even slipped a Jessica Simpson zinger in.
- Just showed a close-up of Zac Brown and Trace Adkins…could they look anymore uncomfortable.
- Bill just announced Taylor will be performing with Def Lepeord.
- USA Weekend Breakthrough Video of the Year…”Chicken Fried” Zac Brown Band- They seem surprised and extremely thankful….They need a bigger buckle to share with all of the guys.
- 5 Finalists for video of the year are : Brad Paisley-Waitin on a Woman, Carrie Underwood-Just a Dream, Sugarland-All I Wanna Do, Taylor Swift-Love Story, Trace Adkins-You’re Gonna Miss This….VOTE NOW AT www.cmt.com or text the last name of the artist to 8611
- Joey and Rory played out to the break…You can almost feel the love through the screen…Cheater Cheater was too brief.
- Woot Woot, Darius Rucker is on singing ‘Alright’… love that shuffle. He’s sounding great and really work that gigantic stage. Darius got the crowd on their feet.
- Julianne Hough, Rodney Atkins, and Billy Currington present Duo Video of the Year (the acting is not good)…And the Winner is…Sugarland “All I Wanna do.”
- What is Jennifer Nettles wearing? She said Keith Urban told her he liked her odds…funny.
- Okay…delete Jennifer Nettles and insert Heidi Newfield….Elvira meets…umm….
- Lady Antebellum basically giving the audience a live version of their “Lookin For a Good Time” video. Sound pretty good…someone is off…Hillary is tugging at her ear monitor.
- Eric Church is taking us to commercial with “Love Your Love the Most.” Happy for him. This is a big deal.
- Brad Paisley singing ‘Then’ love this song…sound is off…as it usually is at awards shows.
- T-Payne and Toby Keith…Did Toby really just say his rap name would be Long Dong Donkey??? Wow…
- Wide Open Country Video of the Year is…Kid Rock-”All Summer Long”…Kid Rock just said that he won due to creativity…What’s more creative than a stripper poll on a pontoon boat.
- Taylor Swift singing “You Belong With Me” she’s putting on quite a show….This girl is gonna be on tv and movies…no doubt…She sounds like….well…hmmm…Taylor. On stage with her…cheerleaders, dancers…quite a production.
- Group Video of the Year…The Winner Is….Rascal Flatts “Every Day”
- Go Zach and Josh-Carter Twins taking us to commercial with a FABULOUS sounding “Heart Like Memphis”
- Keith Urban singing “Sweet Thing” and oh boy is he ever…Lovin this button down shirt thing he’s been doing. Leave it to Keith to go up into the audience at an award show…Only him.
- Performance of the year goes to…. Alan Jackson, George Strait, Dierks Bentley, Brad Paisley “Country Boy” woot woot! You guys go Country Boys! This makes me so stoked! Alan is a man of so few words. I love it when guys like Dierks and Brad are standing on stage with their idols winning awards
- Justin Moore playing rockband with some fans singing Willy Nelson
- Shaune Johnson is a great actress…okay, not really
- Female Video of the Year goes to…Taylor Swift-Love Story…Hugged her brother. She looks breathless…Hugged Shaune Johnson and looks like a giant.
- Sugarland is singing “Love Shack” I’m not totally sure I get it….Enter B-52′s and confuse me even more. Tin-Roof Rusted…not really the same as it once was…
- Jason Michael Carroll taking us to commercial sounding great singing “Where I’m From”
- Dierks is sitting next to his dog Jake…who is also wearing a pass on his neck…so cute…the cutest thing ever.
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- Bill O’Rielly and Naomi Judd are presenting together…Two of the most opinionated people on the planet. The way they were talking, I was expecting them to introduce Toby Keith or John Rich…instead we have Trace singing “You’re Gonna Miss This” Thank goodness…
- Bill Engvall is doing a great job of rippin on everyone equally…Lovin it!
- oh dear…dirty puppet talk…CMT has been officially taken over by MTV for the evening.
- Collaborative Video of the year…(please be Start a Band)…and the winner is….START A BAND!!!! WTG Keith and Brad!!!!! Cutest video ever! Brad says “Rockband never got anyone a date” too funny.
- Rascal Flatts is singing “Summer Nights” …I know Country Girl is freakin out right now…even though she watched rehearsal last night
- Gloriana is ‘Wild at Heart” swooping us to commercial…sound pretty good.
- Kellie Pickler singing “Best Days of Your Life” People, Kellie is BEAUTIFUL in person….stunning on the red carpet. She’s sporting a tiny mirrored mini on stage now that only she could possibly pull off…
- Alison Krause and Ted Nugent…so strange. Awkward…probably one of the most awkward exchanges ever.
- Male Video of the Year is….Brad Paisley “Waitin on a Woman” This is Brad’s Year….Can someone tell me what is up with Brad’s coat? What is going on with it? Brad just gave Andy Griffith a shout out…Smart guy, afterall, Andy is why he just won for this video. Brad just twittered from stage!
- Where all you country girls at??? Jason Aldean rockin it out “She’s Country” joined by Keith Urban on stage…..wooohooo!!!! The best! Keith is rockin his guitar and Bo-CEE-Fus shirt
- Eli Young Band-Always a Love Song…so wish they could just keep playing so those of us in the media room could have something pleasant to listen to while the commercials are playing.
- Dierks is so funny….Melissa Peterman singing “Sideways” so funny. She a big fat wet one on Dierks…OMG, so funny….caught him totally off guard.
- Toby Keith singing ‘Got Love Her” ….always a bridesmaid never a bride.
- Joey and Rory are in here talkin to us bloggers…Rory is actually bloggin on www.countrymusicislove.com funny.
- Oh Martina-dug on Brad Paisley’s height….
- VIDEO OF THE YEAR…THE WINNER IS….Taylor Swift Love Story…She thanks Garth Brooks for being so great to his fans, and Shania for her theatrical videos….
- Taylor Swift and Def Leopard….The crowd is freaking out!!!! This song is perfect for Taylor-lots of hair flippage. Pour Some Sugar on Me….Hot…Sticky…Sweet….oh…Naughty Taylor
- Someone should tell Def Leopard that there is a certain age, and men should start wearing shirts under their vests…coats…etc…oh, and pants should NOT be that night…EVER.
This concludes the Taylor Swift Awards brought to you buy CMT….It’s been a joy blogging for y’all tonight. I can’t wait to go home and watch Keith play via DVR…Bill Engvall-you did a great job so hilarious!
Night Y’all!!!
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Keith did us all proud tonight with his performance, his award with Brad and his perfomrance with Jason. He’s an AWESOME AUSSIE ALWAYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks for the live blog play by play, Tanya! LOVED it! Dierks had an awesome performance and I was so happy he won the award! I don’t think he was happy about that kiss, though! Jake was adorable as always!
Keith and Brad were great! Kellie looked amazing and sounded so good too! LOVE LOVE LOVED Taylor! The skit was freaking hilarious, I was crying laughing. Taylor Swift Awards brought to you by CMT…I like that. I’m so glad Taylor performed even though she is on vocal rest. She was great!
The Taylor show was awful to me! Not a Taylor fan especially after seeing her in concert the other night! She drove me crazy with all that banging and hair and head flipping!! I just don’t get what is so great about her! Keith Urban was so awesome last night. He looked gorgeous and sounded great. Loved it when he ran up to the higher seats. He loves to perform!! When he came out with Jason Aldean dressed in all black and rocking on that guitar and singing I about went into shock and I thought my TV was going to catch on fire, he was so smokin!!!! Keith you are so AWESOME!!!
This was the worst show ever!!
I WANT MY COUNTRY MUSIC BACK!! Nothing against Taylor, but she’s POP not COUNTRY. Let her go do the POP thing for about 10 more years and then she can come back to COUNTRY MUSIC!
When the HELL is someone gonna call this ballgame called “country music”?? Taylor Swift CANNOT sing AT ALL!!! Most acts on the show can’t sing live. Jason Aldean and his group of posers were awful. Same as that American Idol disease known as Kellie Pickler….she better keep riding Taylor’s coattails at this point cause that is the only reason she is still on the radar. Oh yeah, and don’t blame the bad performances on the audio guy…Yeah, he sucked too, but he can’t polish this turd.
The best thing about the show was that Zac Brown Band was recognized….now there is a group that can actually perform live.
I am soooo excited that Alan Jackson/Brad Paisley/Dierks Bentley won that award together! That had to have been bittersweet for Alan being that he’s celebrating his 20th Anniversary of being signed this month.
I was also excited to see Brad Paisley win several awards…he deserved every one of them!
Performance wise I thought the Jason Aldean/Keith Urban collaboration was AMAZING! Brad Paisley singing “Then” was awesome and I was super excited to see Dierks open the show! Not a huge Sugarland fan but their performance with the B-52′s kicked butt! Loved Trace Adkins performance too
Ok, I like taylor swift, but I wish she would stay the hell away from country music! last night’s show made me so mad…the CMT awards are a JOKE. Thank goodness the CMA and ACM awards exist
COUNTRY MUSIC–got a SWIFT kick to the curb. I only watched a few minutes of it–could’nt stand to watch until Keith, Brad or someone country appeared. People complain about other genres coming to country but one of country’s own (claims to be) not only brought them on the show but performed with them as well. I must say it was not good performances. The girl cannot sing. She is off key and swinging her hair around will not hide that fact. It was very annoying.
Okay, I get people dogging on Taylor Swift…I really do…but let’s not confuse the awards shows…the CMT Music Awards are VIDEO awards…not singing…not anything but videos…Let’s not forget that. Should Taylor win a female vocalist award? Probably not…but the girl puts a lot into her videos and her ‘shows’ so lets not forget that….Her videos are impressive and tell stories, so the awards she won were justified…Also, let’s not rag on the show itself…Remember…CMT is owned by MTV so you have to expect a certain amount of ‘mtv-ness’…