The CMT Music Awards announced its list of nominees today and all our favorite people are on the list!
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2013 CMT Music Awards nominations
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Blake Shelton plans benefit for Oklahoma tornado victims
Oklahoma native Blake Shelton is stepping up to help his state. The Voice judge and NBC are planning an emergency telethon to aid the victims.
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Blake Shelton's happy marriage secret: An open phone policy
Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert have a strict policy to help keep their two-year marriage strong: no secrets, ever!
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Miranda Lambert breaks down during Oklahoma benefit
Miranda Lambert breaks down during the Healing in the Heartland benefit concert while singing to raise awareness of the animals affected by the tragedy.
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Our favorite bad-girl songs in CMT Music Awards history
Singing about trucks, guns, beer and love isn't just for the country boys: These female country singers lead the pack with their odes to bad-girl behavior... and we love it!
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CMT Music Awards: Country music vixens we’d most want to be
With the CMT Music Awards quickly approaching, we look at the country music vixens that we'd most like to be.
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VIDEO: We pick the CMT Music Awards winners
The nominees for the 2013 CMT Music Awards read like a who's who list of country music superstars. It was difficult, but we managed to break it down and pick who we think should win. Tune in to CMT on June 5 to see if we got it right!
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2013 CMT Music Awards: The complete list of winners
See the complete list of winners at the 2013 CMT Music Awards, updated live!
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Kacey Musgraves, Taylor Swift rack up 2013 CMA nominations
Kacey Musgraves, Taylor Swift, Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert have each been honored with nominations for the 47th Annual CMA Awards. See who else got the nod!
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What do the 2013 CMA song of the year nominees have in common?
Interestingly, most of this year's CMA nominations for Song of the Year have to do with some mode of transportation. Listening to the 2013 CMA Song of the Year nominations is sure to get you moving!
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The 2013 CMAs soundtrack for life
Remember when you used to burn CDs with cutesy themes like "Breakup" or "Girls' Night" to suit your mood? Well, we do. So, we took the initiative to go ahead and sort out this year's CMA-nominated songs to save you a step.
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The CMAs are cooler than you think: CMA fun facts
Think country music is all about cheating, beer drinking liars whose only real friends in the world are their dogs and trucks? Well, you're kind of right. But the CMAs are cool for lots of other reasons you may not be aware of.
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2013 CMAs best dressed: Miranda Lambert leads the pack
Country music's brightest superstars pulled out their finest designer gear for the 2013 CMAs. These five gorgeous ladies managed to outshine all the rest with their gorgeous gowns.
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Live music rules the 2013 CMA Awards
The CMA Awards highlighted the vast amounts of talent in the world of country music. There were so many huge hits, the performances almost all didn't fit into one show.
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Miranda Lambert reveals slimmer figure, dishes fitness secrets
Miranda Lambert may be the queen of country music, but she still struggles with her weight just like everyone else. She opens up about how she's staying trim and what she thinks about her upcoming birthday.
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5 Reasons other than weight to talk about Miranda Lambert
Miranda Lambert bit back via her blog and Facebook page today against claims she'd lost weight unhealthily. We're sick of this ballsy babe being reduced to a number on the scale, so here are a few more worthy reasons to chat about Lambert.
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Miranda Lambert slams tabloids over surgery claims
Miranda Lambert showed up at the 2013 CMA Awards earlier this month looking very different, but the queen of country is now firing back at critics who are saying her weight loss was caused by surgery.
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The best for last? Country artists ditch the ACAs
With the ACAs being the last award show of the year, artists seemed pretty burnt out. But who would ditch an award show where they are nominated?
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Feminists unite in 2013: 20 Most inspiring quotes
From a 16-year-old activist who survived being shot by the Taliban to a country singer going to bat against weight bullying, women have a lot to be proud of in 2013. We look back on some of the year's most inspirational words.
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VIDEO: Miranda Lambert's nostalgic new "Automatic"
Earlier this year Miranda Lambert announced an upcoming new album, Platinum, and unveiled her first single. Now we finally have a music video for the nostalgic first release, "Automatic."
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For fans that fell in love with Lambert via fiery tunes like "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend" and "Kerosene," the sweet tameness of "Automatic" may take time to win them over. For those who found Lambert during her "Me and Charlie Talking" phase or who may have become weepy during "The House that Built Me," this new track will immediately seem like a thing of beauty.
"Automatic" follows Country canon fairly well as it reminisces about days past. Similar to Tim McGraw's "Back When" and Rascal Flatts' "Mayberry," the song is all about yearning for a simpler time. Lambert spends time waxing poetic about everything from using maps instead of GPS to using a cassette tape to record songs off the radio. It's all summed up nicely with the slightly cliché but 100 percent lovable (because it's Lambert) chorus:
Hey, whatever happened to waitin' your turn
Doing it all by hand,
'Cause when everything is handed to you
It's only worth as much as the time put in
It all just seemed so good the way we had it
Back before everything became automatic
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The video is just as full of the warmth of yesterday as the song itself. Starting in a dusty room, we watch as Lambert goes through a trunk of old things, pulling out a pocket watch and cassette player and taking time to consider each one. While the beginning sequence feels a little trite, the rest of the video is flawless. It gets better when Lambert goes for a drive through a town time seems to have left untouched. Country girls across the globe will surely yelp, "Hey! That looks like where I'm from," as Miranda steers an ancient Chevy over hills and down back roads.
It's hard to place, but there's something about "Automatic" that reminds us of the Miranda who waltzed into our worlds nearly a decade ago. "Automatic" is warm and sweet, exactly what we need for spring.
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