Eric Church is still upset about Garth Brooks lip-syncing his “Ask Me How I Know” performance at the 2017 CMA Awards.
Church told Rolling Stone in a recent interview: “To me, lip-syncing is and always will be a red line. It’s fabricated. I don’t want young artists thinking it’s okay, because it’s not … the winner of the biggest category of the night lip-synced in the biggest moment on the show? That pissed me off.”

Brooks blamed his hectic touring schedule as the reason for the lip-syncing, but Church wasn’t thrilled with that reasoning either saying “I didn’t like his excuse at all … I felt like he was speaking for the other nominees. I can speak for myself — I’m not lip-syncing. If I can’t sing, I won’t sing, or I’ll sing badly. But at least you’ll get what you get.”

Chruch might still have sour grapes, as he left the award show empty-handed, losing Entertainer of the Year to Brooks in the same evening.

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