{"id":111094,"date":"2020-11-12T14:40:12","date_gmt":"2020-11-12T11:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/how-the-cma-awards-stood-out-in-a-pandemic-year\/"},"modified":"2020-11-12T14:40:12","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T11:40:12","slug":"how-the-cma-awards-stood-out-in-a-pandemic-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/how-the-cma-awards-stood-out-in-a-pandemic-year\/","title":{"rendered":"#How the CMA Awards stood out in a pandemic year"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#How the CMA Awards stood out in a pandemic year<\/strong>”
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\n The big winner at the CMAs on Wednesday night was \u2026 the CMAs.<\/p>\n

Despite rising coronavirus cases across the country \u2014 including the increasing threat of a second wave in New York \u2014 the 54th annual Country Music Association Awards felt more like the good old days than any other major awards show since the pandemic hit.<\/p>\n

During the ceremony \u2014 held at the Music City Center in Nashville \u2014 there were no signs of masks, there was an audience and real clapp<\/a>ing, and there was a star-studded parade of performances including everyone from Maren Morris and Miranda Lambert to Eric Church and Luke Combs.<\/p>\n

Sure, the whole thing felt a lot more intimate this year with a smaller crowd \u2014 consisting of nominated artists and their guests \u2014 sitting at social<\/a>ly distanced tables (except when some would stand in place). But the sound of real-life music, real-life applause and real-life laughter \u2014 even to the awkward stage banter between hosts Reba McEntire and Darius Rucker \u2014 was enough to make you cry happy tears in your beer, wine or whiskey.<\/p>\n

For once in 2020, this was a good reason to drink.<\/p>\n

Before the show went on, strict COVID-19 testing protocols had already sidelined some of the artists scheduled to attend. Lee Brice, Florida Georgia Line\u2019s Tyler Hubbard and one of the members of Rascal Flatts tested positive for the virus, as did Musician of the Year winner Jenee Fleenor. Meanwhile, Lady A didn\u2019t appear because one of the trio\u2019s immediate family members tested positive, although Charles Kelley did sing with Carly Pearce in a pre-taped performance.<\/p>\n

It all made who actually won almost an afterthought, as first-time Entertainer of the Year winner Church made clear when he accepted the biggest award of the night at the end. Morris \u2014 the night\u2019s biggest winner with three awards, including Single and Song of the Year for \u201cThe Bones,\u201d and Female Vocalist of the Year \u2014 seemed increasingly embarrassed to pick up her trophies after each victory. And the losers, for once, appeared truly happy just to be there.<\/p>\n

As with any music awards show, it was mostly about the performances, including tributes to Kenny Rogers (by Little Big Town), Mac Davis (by McEntire and Rucker) and a show-opening salute to Charlie Daniels (by Jason Aldean, Brothers Osborne, Dierks Bentley and Ashley McBryde).<\/p>\n

And this time around, the remote performances \u2014 with Dan + Shay and Justin Bieber singing \u201c10,000 Hours\u201d from the Hollywood Bowl, and Keith Urban crooning \u201cGod Whispered Your Name\u201d from his native Australia \u2014 were thankfully the exception to the rule.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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