Best and Worst: 43rd Annual Country Music Assn. Awards

By Emily Christianson and Patrick Kevin Day

Her CMA opening performance of “Forever & Always” may have been an opportunity to show Kanye West who’s boss for the 50th time, but instead Taylor Swift seemed intent on doing everything she could to distract from her shockingly thin voice. Thrown furniture! Stripper pole! Wind! It’s all almost enough to distract you from how she actually sounded.

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