R&B singer Rihanna performed her next single, “California King Bed” off her smash album LOUD with Sugarland’s Jennifer Nettles at the 46th Annual Country Music Awards in Las Vegas last night.
The reviews are in: “She sounds like a dying rabbit,” wrote one reviewer following Rihanna’s unlikely performance at the CMAs.
Wearing a dreadful red pixie wig and a white dress, Rihanna choked out the words to her own song in a live performance that didn’t go over well with the harsh Twitter.com critics. To put it frankly, she was bad — and not in a good way.
Nettles tried to save Rihanna after their duet by calling the 23-year-old Barbadian native a “wonderful performer.” She added: “Obviously, country music is hip and it’s cool and it’s fresh, and I think her being here tonight is even more testimony to that.”
Taylor Swift won the Entertainer of the Year award and Lady antebellum won a gong for Album of the Year. Miranda Lambert took home four gongs and Twilight star Robert Pattinson and newlywed Reese Witherspon were presenters.
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