Breibart.com – April 2, 2023
Country singer Kelsea Ballerini opened the CMT Music Awards with a tribute to victims of a school shooting while sharing in that community’s grief, then danced alongside drag artists as states across the country consider legally limiting drag show performances.
if you go down, i’m going down too 🏳️🌈 // thank you to these iconic queens and @manilaluzon @kennedyddoftx @janjanjan @TheOliviaLux and @CMT for celebrating love, self expression, and performance.
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— Kelsea Ballerini (@KelseaBallerini) April 3, 2023
Ballerini, a co-host of the annual awards show with singer Kane Brown, opened the Austin, Texas, show by listing the names of six victims three adults and three 9-year-olds who were killed Monday at The Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee. She noted how she shared their pain, explaining that in 2008 she witnessed a school shooting in her hometown high school cafeteria in Knoxville and prayed for “real action” that would protect children and families.
About two hours into the fan-voted awards show, the Tennessee native sang “If You Go Down (I’m Going Down Too)” and danced with Kennedy Davenport, Jan Sport, Manila Luzon and Olivia Lux, all stars of the show “RuPaul’s Drag Race.”
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Her home state of Tennessee was the first to place strict limits on drag show performances, which were set to take effect this month. The law has been temporarily blocked after a lawsuit was filed earlier this week.
Country superstar and five-time Grammy winner Shania Twain was given the Equal Play Award, recognizing her for being a “visible and vocal advocate” for diverse voices in country music. Texas native and Grammy-winning rapper Megan Thee Stallion introduced Twain, the pair dancing and hugging to Twain’s hit, “Man, I Feel Like a Woman.”
The lyrics to the song became an undercurrent to a decades-long career of advocacy, Twain said.
“I promise I will continue to champion the many outstanding country artists that are not currently played, they are not currently streamed, toured, signed or awarded at the level they deserve,” Twain said. “I believe in an all-inclusive country music.”
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Leading nominee Lainey Wilson picked up early wins with female video of the year for “Heart Like a Truck” and collaborative video of the year for “Wait in the Truck” with HARDY.
“My heart is ’bout to beat right out my chest, I’ll be honest with y’all,” Wilson said after winning female video of the year, calling the hit song an anthem for surviving the “scratches, the dents and the bumps along the way.”
This year’s CMT Music Awards merged country, rock and blues straight from the heart of Texas, featuring performances including collaborations with Alanis Morissette, The Black Crowes, Gwen Stefani and Gary Clark Jr. and tributes to Lynyrd Skynyrd and Stevie Ray Vaughn.
Country Music Hall of Famer Wynonna Judd and Ashley Judd performed a cover of Foreigner’s “I Want to Know What Love is” while heavy fog rolled over the stage and into the crowd.
Pop singer Stefani performed her No Doubt mid-1990s pop-punk hit “Just a Girl” alongside country singer Carly Pearce. Jelly Roll, already a double winner, brought a choir out for his prayer-themed song “Need a Favor” and got the crowd to raise their hands to the roof.
Carrie Underwood has a chance to extend her record as the most awarded artist in CMT history with 25 awards. Underwood, who also will perform, was nominated again for video of the year for “Hate My Heart.”
Four-time Grammy winner Clark Jr. performed a tribute to the late Texas guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughn at the top of the show.
Southern rockers Lynyrd Skynyrd will be honored with a tribute performance following the death in March of the last original member, Gary Rossington. ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons, Slash of Guns N’ Roses and the Allman Brothers’ Warren Haynes and Chuck Leavell are set to perform with singers Paul Rodgers and Cody Johnson with backup vocals from LeAnn Rimes and Judd.
“Southern rockers Lynyrd Skynyrd will be honored with a tribute performance following the death in March of the last original member, Gary Rossington. ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons, Slash of Guns N’ Roses and the Allman Brothers’ Warren Haynes and Chuck Leavell are set to perform with singers Paul Rodgers and Cody Johnson with backup vocals from LeAnn Rimes and Judd.”
All non-descript nothings who contribute nothing of any real value.
as a childrens counsellor for many years i can tell you exposing them to transvetsitss
and the homosexual agenda espoused by Tony Blair
has sickened me
i have seen many tenagers who do not know whats ex they are
this leads to self harming drink and drugs and many to suicide
One of the girls was put in the gay stream from age 9 when she started her periods she was given blockers then drugs to make her male
she had her breasts off at age 12 and a full reversal into a male and age 15
she knew she was on these drugs with their awful side effects for life
at age 18 she fell in love with a boy who rejected her he said he did not know what she was
just before her 19th birthday she commited suicide
her diaries told the full story of this childs agonies
whoever does this to kids should rot in hell
They have made gun-grab more difficult for themselves by proposing more gun-acquisition for Trannies
I actually watched some of this BEFORE I turned it off. It wasn’t just bad, it was horrible! Never again is too soon!
A good reason for the rest of the world to side with Russia and become anti-American.
We should pray for them. Because we do not know what nefarious means were used to turn people like you and I into something so ugly and alien like them,
I hope anyone supporting this goes out of business. I have never wished that but im fed up w this junk. There has to be consequen es to actions
No mentions of the last remaining authentic true “country” music genres–bluegrass and zydecko (that is, Cajun music). But of course….since the LGBTQ+ crowd hasn’t quite yet infiltrated them. But I am sure that’s coming. Even Appalachian “white trash” (bluegrass) and Delta Cajuns (zydecko) can be deceptively forced to go along to get along, as Fentanyl addiction rages through these parts. As for “Christian” country…it ain’t exactly “Christian” if you know what I mean, but they needed something to replace traditional hymns on YouTube screens….There are exceptions, but still…
They’re all God’s children.
Cows.
This needs further investigation Rixon.
http://www.domigood.com/2023/04/naked-education-show-features-adults.html?m=1
There is a good chance that the last 30 years of legitimizing homosexual & transsexual mental illnesses is consistent with the Russian/Soviet /CCP extreme psycho warfare to break the U.S. down for the final takeover & Putin has no objections. Any ‘anti -America’ sentiment is what they have created both here & abroad after the talmudic communists won ww2 for their purposes. (Don’t side with the enemy.)
A military coup would be an appropriate response to the deranged, ugly perverts that occupy al levels of government, education, banking, entertainment, medicine & churches.
there is a saying in child protection that anyone who assists or stays quiet about child abuse
is a child abuser themselves
people who expose kids to transvestites and the filth of the homosexual life style should be
killed exactly as the bible tells us
an art exhibition in France supporting child abuse pedophilia and clucking has gone on show
the public are outraged
http://www.renegadetribune.com/child-rape-pornography-exhibited-in-france-protected-by-the-french-government/
Kelsea Ballerini should have sung, “Stand By Your Trans” by Tommy Wynette.