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I'm thrilled to be performing at the @CMT #CMTawards on Wednesday, October 21st! Tune in on CMT at 8/7c.

Promo clip - https://twitter.com/ShaniaTwain/status/1316106432912125953

4:00 PM ET - 13 Oct 20

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COVID-19 pushes CMT Music Awards show to embrace 'beautiful and exciting' outdoors

By Matthew Leimkuehler | Nashville Tennessean | October 16, 2020

For everyone this year who’s traded downtown offices for daily commutes to the living room, “behind the scenes” at the CMT Music Awards should look pretty familiar. 

It’s a Zoom conference call, of course. 

But instead of living room desks, kitchen tables and back patios (with the occasional pet zoom-bombing the meeting), this Zoom meeting shows six cameras capturing a fiery performance — literally anchored by fireworks that shoot more than 300 feet high -— from Bicentennial Park in Nashville. 

A director calls into the popular teleconference service from Los Angeles, roughly 2,000 miles west of the park, to ensure a helicopter hovering above the performance captures ideal aerial shots. Five remaining cameras cover each cranny of Bicentennial Capitol Mall State Park Amphitheater. 

On site, masked producers juggle local COVID-19 protocol as the biggest songs in country music come to life in locations that seem a world away from the show’s previous home at Bridgestone Arena. 

“I’ve always said that necessity is the mother of invention,” said John Hamlin, CMT Music Awards executive producer and president and CEO of Switched On Entertainment. “Whatever your job is, you get thrown curveballs and it forces you to do things in a way you would not have done … and hopefully it makes you think of things in a different way.” 

Kane Brown, Sarah Hyland, Ashley McBryde to host 2020 virtual show

COVID-19 precautions slammed the door shut on an arena-sized program earlier this year; producers instead take viewers outdoors to showcase top country music hitmakers in scenic Middle Tennessee locations. 

“Heaven” hitmaker Kane Brown co-hosts with “Modern Family” star Sarah Hyland and CMA Awards’ defending New Artist of the Year Ashley McBryde.

The show airs Oct. 21 at 8 p.m. ET / 7 p.m. CT on CMT. Viacom, the Nashville-based brand's parent company, simulcasts the program on six additional networks: MTV, MTV2, Logo, Paramount Network, Pop an TV Land. 

McBryde, Dan + Shay, Thomas Rhett, Sam Hunt, Kelsea Ballerini and Luke Combs each lead 2020 nominations to the fan-voted program, with three nods. The Chicks (formerly known as The Dixie Chicks) earned two nominations, the first CMT awards nod for the group since 2007. Other artists to earn two nominations include Brown, Carrie Underwood, Gabby Barrett, Little Big Town, Miranda Lambert and Old Dominion. 

“This show is about the fans for us,” said Margaret Comeaux, executive producer of the CMT Music Awards and VP of production, music and events and the network. “I think, in my mind, we’re taking it out to the places where the fans are.” 

Artists slated to perform include Brown, McBryde, Dan + Shay, Ballerini and Halsey, Combs with Brooks and Dunn, Luke Bryan, Sam Hunt, Maren Morris, Little Big Town and more. 

Swapping Bridgestone Arena for scenic Middle Tennessee

The show takes viewers in Middle Tennessee to familiar — yet unconventional — performance spots: Ruskin Cave in Dickson County, Sycamore Farms in Arrington and the Estate at Cherokee Dock, a Wilson County house known best as Reba McEntire’s former home. 

Producers “gambled,” Hamlin said, on health protocols in multiple counties allowing for socially-distanced performances. CMT required face coverings, daily health screenings and a negative coronavirus test for talent and crew before shooting. 

Despite working within strict health measures, taking the show outdoors means there’s “no limitation on the scope and size of what we’re doing,” Hamlin said. 

“The most important thing is obviously the safety of the crew of the artist and their crew, that comes first and foremost,” Hamlin said, adding: “We kind of have to roll with it, embrace the situation and learn some new tricks.” 

And removing the show from one night in a venue allowed producers to recruit presenters from Hollywood talent — such as a-list actress Jessica Chastain, Hamlin said — that otherwise wouldn’t be able to make a trip to Music City.

Brandi Carlile, Demi Lovato, Kelly Clarkson, Taylor Swift and more join in presenting. 

“If we weren’t in a pandemic and we had movie stars sending in videotaped presentations, that’s not ideal,” he said. “But everyone’s doing that now. It’s made more people available to us as presenters.”

Presenters pre-tape appearances, a model similar to what CMT used on a “Celebrate Our Heroes” special that ran earlier this year,” Comeaux said. 

Acceptance speeches are planned to be “live with the host as they announce it and surprise the winners,” she said. 

“That moment for us as producers live television producers, that’s what we do,” Comeaux said. “That’s where we find our sweet spot.”

The only thing missing? A live audience. 

“I would argue all of our performances look as beautiful and as exciting as any performances we’ve ever done inside,” Hamlin said. “The one caveat is we don’t have an audience we can feed off in front of ‘em.” 

Still, for viewers at home, it should provide a little escape from any Zoom call that may be waiting the next day.

https://www.tennessean.com/story/entertainment/music/2020/10/16/cmt-music-awards-2020-outdoors-year-dominated-covid-19-zoom/3594815001/

Shania Twain @ShaniaTwain

I'm performing for the @CMT #CMTawards tonight! 😍 Make sure you tune in from at 8/7c.

2:36 PM ET - 21 Oct 20

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Gigi wrote:

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Tommy, what do you suppose Shania will be singing? Old stuff (as usual) or new stuff?

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Old stuff. Shania will be performing from Switzerland. Not Nashville. She has a leopard outfit on. 

Will someone please upload her performance?

She sang "Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under?"

Very cool place to do the performance

Tommy wrote:

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Tommy wrote:

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Here is most of the performance I found on Twitter. I'll post it in better quality when I find one.

http://www.shaniasupersite.com/shania_news_cmtmusicawards102120.html

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I re-uploaded a higher quality full-performance video.

http://www.shaniasupersite.com/shania_news_cmtmusicawards102120.html

Thanks Tommy for the upload.  I knew Charlie Chaplin lived for many years with his wife Oona and family in Switzerland, but had no idea there was a Chaplin museum there. I'm a fan of classic comedy, and it was so cool to see Shania perform the song at the museum.  I thought it was an enjoyable rendition of "Whose Bed..." by Shania, too.

Marshall

 

https://spinditty.com/artists-bands/Shania-Twain-The-Woman-In-Me-Diamond-Edition-Three-CD-Box-Set-Review

-- Edited by Marshall on Thursday 22nd of October 2020 01:10:08 PM

She sang on the same backing track used for the Now Tour and the Let's Go residency in Vegas.

Chaplin's World @chaplins_world

#ShaniaTwain recorded her performance of ”Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under” for the 2020 #CMTawards at #ChaplinsWorld! Thank you @ShaniaTwain and her team for this amazing experience! #Music #country #CharlieChaplin

7:52 AM ET - 22 Oct 20

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Shania Twain @shaniatwain

 

#CMTAwards 2020 💥 I'm so happy I could be a part of the night even though I'm currently in Switzerland! Thanks to @cmt for having me and for spotlighting so many exceptional women, their 50/50 pledge is a step in the right direction and I hope it will help make a difference elsewhere in the industry ✊ Thank you to @chaplins.world, an awesome local museum, for letting us use the space, it was fun to cuddle up to people even if they were wax figures 😂

https://www.instagram.com/p/CGpgOwiBbIu/

10:04 AM ET - 22 Oct 20

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qUM77-x84U

Shania Twain performs classic hit from Charlie Chaplin’s home

Retro Pop | October 22, 2020

Shania Twain hit the stage at the virtual CMT Music Awards on Wednesday with her classic hit, Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under.

The country-pop icon appeared virtually from Switzerland, where she lives and has been spending the pandemic, and performed the hit live from Chaplin’s World – an amusement located on silent movie star Charlie Chaplin’s home and surrounding land. 

While visitors can check out the main building where the screen icon resided, Shania gave her socially-distanced performance from the studio, which features sets from a number of Chaplin’s black-and-white movies.

In addition to her musicians – who she broke out of a mock jail cell at the start of the three-minute spectacle – the hitmaker was also surrounded my mannequins throughout.

Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under is taken from her 1995 album The Woman In Me, which was recently re-released in honour of its 25th anniversary and also features hits including Any Man of Mine, If You’re Not In It For Love (I’m Outta Here) and You Win My Love.

The Woman In Me (Super Deluxe Diamond Edition) is available to order on CD and vinyl now.

https://retropopmagazine.com/shania-twain-performs-charlie-chaplins-home-cmt-awards/

Ok. I don't want to start a fight, but why did it feel like she was lipsyncing? Like, it was weird...

It was such a WEIRD performance. Like seriously what was she thinking staging it this way and at that venue....