The three-hour show was an ode to the robustness and stability of country music. But the genre dominated charts and discourse this year thanks to pop superstars Beyoncé, Post Malone and Shaboozey.
CMA Awards Pay Tribute To Las Vegas Victims Without Getting Too Political
Listen This year’s Country Music Association Awards were meant to provide healing for an industry shaken by the massacre at a festival in Las Vegas last month. Wednesday night’s show paid tribute to the fans who became victims, but it also reinforced how few of the artists want to talk about the gun debate reignited […]
A Writer For The CMA Awards Show On Navigating Recent Tragedies
Listen The CMA Awards on Wednesday night is expected to be both a celebration of country music and an entire industry’s take on recent natural disasters and shooting tragedies. The man tasked with performing that balancing act is David Wild, the writer whose words presenters will read off of scrolling teleprompters.
CMA Meets Stiff Resistance For Ban On Asking Artists About Vegas Tragedy
The Country Music Association lifted its ban on questions about the Las Vegas tragedy around noon on Friday after growing social media outcry from musicians and journalists. “CMA apologizes for the recently distributed restrictions in the CMA Awards media guidelines, which have since been lifted. The sentiment was not to infringe and was created with the […]
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