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Blake Shelton To Dan + Shay At CMA’s ‘I’ll Kick Your Ass’

Just before Blake Shelton won Single of the Year for “God’s Country” last week (11/13) at the CMA Awards, he leaned back and offered Dan + Shay, who were sitting…

Blake Shelton To Dan + Shay At CMA's 'I'll Kick Your Ass'
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Just before Blake Shelton won Single of the Year for "God's Country" last week (11/13) at the CMA Awards, he leaned back and offered Dan + Shay, who were sitting behind him at the show, some choice words if they won the honor.

Blake told us, "They were sitting directly behind me and I turned around and I said, 'Hey, if you guys win this award, I'm gonna kick your ass because I haven't been nominated for any of this stuff in like 100 years.' So, we decided the course [but] I didn't follow through."

Blake's plan? "Whoever won, we'd get up and talk crap on the other as our acceptance speech."

He continued jokingly, "That's the way it should go in the future. I think that might help with the ratings. If I thought there was a chance that people were going to actually throw down and fight on the CMA's I'd sit and wait for it all day."

Nancy Brooks has been working in the country music industry for almost 30 years. She has interviewed pretty much any country star you can think of. In the late 1990s, she started working with Dolly Parton. And yes, Nancy reports that Parton is as sweet as you would think. She loves her life in country music and has been backstage at every CMA Awards show since the late 1990s. Many of her stories are from her one-on-one interviews. She was there at the beginning of the incredible careers of many music superstars today, including Taylor Swift, Shania Twain, and Blake Shelton, and has interviewed them multiple times throughout the years.