The Academy of Country Music’s 49th
Annual Awards were broadcast out of the MGM Grand in Las Vegas again
this year, with special performances in nearby Mandalay Bay.
The stars of the show were undoubtedly
hosts Blake Shelton and Luke Bryan, who took great delight in making fun
of each other and all the performers and nominees all night in
genuinely funny bits. They came to the stage dressed as Daft Punk, they
tried to top Ellen’s Oscar selfie stunt and decided they were the only
famous enough people in-house to take a selfie of, and of course their
bad Letterman jokes. Pair that with shout-outs to same-sex marriage and
legalizing drugs in their opening monologue, this was not your mama’s
ACMs.
The debut TV performances of new singles
from Miranda Lambert and Lady Antebellum were crowd favorites, with the
latter bringing Stevie Nicks on stage to join them and busting into a
few verses of the Fleetwood Mac hit “Rihannon” which brought the whole
theater to their feet.
Another performance that grabbed the
crowd’s attention far above the many others in the telecast was host
Luke Bryan doing “Play It Again” on a spinning record. The song had all
the heads in camera shot bobbing and it looked like someone told Taylor
Swift to stay in her seat for this show or else she’d have been up
dancing to this one.
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