ACM Awards: Reba and women's country stars go unheard while Dan + Shay and Keith Urban win big

Reba McEntire, host of the Academy of Country Music Awards, made a gesture at the show for not having named a single artist for the highest honor of the evening, the artist's performer. Year, which was eventually awarded to Keith Urban.

Reba, who hosted the show for the 16th time, wasted no time in highlighting the lack of female representation in her live monologue at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.

"It's the 16th time that I'm organizing the show," Reba told an enthusiastic audience. "People always ask me:" Have you ever tired of doing it? "And me [say], "Tired of celebrating great music artists … tired of being in charge of the biggest party of country music?"

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"I'm calling Reba McEntire and I'm not tired for 53 years, I'm a woman in the music business and we do not have time to get tired," she said.

But the red-haired singer had not finished after the show she was animating.

McEntire remarked that it had snowed in Las Vegas in recent weeks before shooting: "It froze us as a woman of the year, but you know what, it did not bother Kacey Musgraves. because she was too busy carrying all her Grammys. "Musgraves later won the year album for" Golden Hour ".

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McEntire's critics aside, it was Dan + Shay and Urban who stood out as the big winners of the night.

The country duo followed its first Grammy win for "Tequila" with multiple wins at the ACM. Dan + Shay won the duo and single of the year for cross success and "Tequila" also won the song title of the year for songwriters Dan Smyers, Jordan Reynolds and Nicolle Galyon (Shay Mooney did not write the song).

"I think someone mixed the cards tonight," Smyers said on stage. "It's all amazing, we're all winners tonight."

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Even Thomas Rhett jokingly dedicated his yearling singer trophy to Dan + Shay.

"I will talk to Dan + Shay at five o'clock so that they can go home with four," he said.

Rhett also shouted to his wife who was sitting in the audience, "You're hot tonight."

Dan + Shay has won the most awards, but it is Urban who has won the highest honor as an artist of the year.

"For fans, you're great, you have no idea what you represent for me," Urban said.

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Other memorable moments came when Miranda Lambert took the stage for the first time and apparently masked her ex-husband, Blake Shelton, by changing the lyrics of her song from "I live in Oklahoma" to "I shoot the devil of Oklahoma ".

She then joined George Strait for a duet. Ashley McBryde, who was named New Female Artist of the Year, was also noticed: she was almost in tears, she scratched her guitar and beautifully sang "Girl Goin" Nowhere ".

Jason Aldean, who received the artist award from Dick Clark, kicked off the awards ceremony with a fun performance featuring the Florida Georgia Line's hit duo. FGL's Tyler Hubbard wore a denim outfit with the American flag while he was singing on stage with band member Brian Kelley and Aldean.

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Associated Press contributed to this report.