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Country Music Awards 2014: Miranda Lambert wins four prizes

Miranda Lambert won four awards at the 48th annual CMA Awards in Nashville in November 2014 Photo: Getty Images

As Miranda Lambert and Luke Bryan win top CMA awards, the hosts joke that Taylor Swift’s defection to pop caused Barack Obama and southern Democrats to lose the Senate elections.

Miranda Lambert won four awards at the 48th annual CMA Awards in Nashville in November 2014 Photo: Getty Images

Miranda Lambert won four honours at the Country Music Association awards, including beating Taylor Swift to the coveted female vocalist of the year.

Swift wasn’t forgotten at the awards in Nashville, however, with co-hosts Carrie Underwood and Brad Paisley gently ribbing the singer (who is is Japan promoting her new album 1989) for her conversion to pop. “I’ll be the first one to say it: President Obama does not care about post-partum Taylor Swift Disorder,” said Paisley, with Underwood adding: “I’m pretty sure that’s why the Democrats lost the Senate.”

The quip, about the Republicans winning control of the Senate in Tuesday’s elections, brought laughter from the crowd.

It sounds like the pair were in comedy mode, with the Washington Post reporting that their monologue, possibly in bad taste, tackled Ebola (with a parody song called Quarantine to the tune of Jolene) and recent nude photo hacking (with a parody of I Walk the Line: “I take naked selfies all the time/I’m scared I’ll find/They’ve leaked online”).

Lambert, who had been nominated for seven awards in all, didn’t have it all her own way. She was beaten by Luke Bryan to the prestigious entertainer of the year prize.

Kacey Musgraves’s Follow Your Arrow, noted for its gay-friendly message and references to marijuana, won the songwriters’ award song of the year. She shared the accolade with fellow songwriters Brandy Clark and Shane McAnally. This award means so much because our genre was built on strong, simple songs about real life, said Musgraves, 26. The fans and people who connected with it took it farther than I thought it ever could go.

CMA 2014 WINNERS IN FULL

Entertainer of the Year

Luke Bryan WINNER

Miranda Lambert

Blake Shelton

George Strait

Keith Urban

Female Vocalist of the Year

Miranda Lambert WINNER

Martina McBride

Kacey Musgraves

Taylor Swift

Carrie Underwood

Male Vocalist of the Year

Dierks Bentley

Luke Bryan

Eric Church

Blake Shelton *WINNER*

Keith Urban

Vocal Group of the Year

Eli Young Band

Lady Antebellum

Little Big Town WINNER

The Band Perry

Zac Brown Band

Vocal Duo Of The Year

Dan + Shay

Florida Georgia Line WINNER

Love & Theft

The Swon Brothers

Thompson Square

New Artist Of The Year

Brandy Clark

Brett Eldredge WINNER

Kip Moore

Thomas Rhett

Cole Swindell

Album of the Year

Crash My Party by Luke Bryan

Fuse by Keith Urban

Platinum by Miranda Lambert WINNER

Riser by Dierks Bentley

The Outsiders Eric Church

Single of the Year

Automatic by Miranda Lambert WINNER

Drunk On A Plane by Dierks Bentley

Give Me Back My Hometown by Eric Church

Meanwhile Back At Mama’s by Tim McGraw, featuring Faith Hill

Mine Would Be You by Blake Shelton

Song Of The Year

Automatic Miranda Lambert (written by Miranda Lambert, Nicolle Galyon and Natalie Hemby)

Follow Your Arrow Kacey Musgraves (written by Kacey Musgraves, Brandy Clark and Shane McAnally) WINNER

Give Me Back My Hometown Eric Church (written by Eric Church and Luke Laird)

I Don’t Dance Lee Brice (written by Lee Brice, Dallas Davidson and Rob Hatch)

I Hold On Dierks Bentley (written by Dierks Bentley and Brett James)

Vocal Event Of The Year

Bakersfield, Vince Gill and Paul Franklin

Meanwhile Back At Mama’s, Tim McGraw, featuring Faith Hill

Somethin’ Bad Miranda Lambert and Carrie Underwood

We Were Us, Keith Urban and Miranda Lambert WINNER

Can’t Make Old Friends, Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers

Video Of The Year

Automatic Miranda Lambert (directed by Trey Fanjoy)

Bartender Lady Antebellum (directed by Shane Drake)

Drunk on a Plane Dierks Bentley (directed by Wes Edwards) WINNER

Follow Your Arrow Kacey Musgraves (directed by Kacey Musgraves and Honey)

Somethin’ Bad Carrie Underwood and Miranda Lambert (directed by Trey Fanjoy)

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