CMA Awards: Miranda Lambert wins many prizes and Luke Bryan is Entertainer of the Year
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Molly Driscoll Staff writer
The Country Music Association Awards, which aired on Nov. 6, included many wins by singer Miranda Lambert and singer Luke Bryan taking home the Entertainer of the Year honor.聽
Kacey Musgraves took the song of the year prize for her track 鈥淔ollow Your Arrow,鈥� while the group Florida Georgia Line won the vocal duo of the year award. Dierks Bentley took the music video of the year prize for the song 鈥淒runk On a Plane.鈥澛�
Meanwhile, Little Big Town took the vocal group of the year award and Brett Eldredge was named the best new artist of the year. Singer Blake Shelton was awarded the male vocalist of the year prize and the musician of the year prize went to Mac McAnally.
Lambert swept many other prizes. She took home the award for musical event of the year with Keith Urban for the song 鈥淲e Were Us,鈥� the female vocalist prize, the single of the year award for 鈥淎utomatic,鈥� and the album of the year award for 鈥淧latinum.鈥澛�
In an interview with the Associated Press, Lambert said of 鈥淧latinum,鈥� which was released this past June, 鈥淟oretta Lynn said you've got to live a life in order to sing about it. That's what I'm doing. The good, the bad, and the ugly is on this record. It's who I am.鈥�
critic Will Hermes wrote of the 鈥淧latinum鈥� song 鈥淧riscilla,鈥� 鈥淎s elsewhere on her fifth LP, it takes a cheeky view of her ascent聽to country music Queen Bee鈥� mostly it shows how Lambert earned her throne: by singing top-shelf songs in the voice of a woman getting real鈥� [on 鈥楶latinum鈥橾, Lambert also taps the old and alt elements beyond Music Row pop that make country music so rich.鈥澛�
According to , when she took the album of the year award at the CMA Awards, she said of 鈥淧latinum,鈥� 鈥淚 wrote with a lot of my friends, sang with a lot of my friends鈥� and I appreciate you fans supporting it and relating to it.鈥�
Meanwhile, according to the , when Bryan took his award, he said, 鈥淲e鈥檙e gonna have a good time tonight鈥� and, according to USA Today, mentioned that he has "some angels in heaven 鈥� my brother and sister are up there and making this night possible for me."
