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Blake Lively Reacts To Taylor Swift ACM Nominations

It’s not very often that a movie actress like Blake Lively gets two nominations from the Academy of Country Music, but it happened this year when Blake was nominated for…

Blake Lively Reacts To Taylor Swift ACM Nominations
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It's not very often that a movie actress like Blake Lively gets two nominations from the Academy of Country Music, but it happened this year when Blake was nominated for Taylor Swift's video "I Bet You Think About Me" (Taylor's Version). She directed and produced the video.

Lively walked the red carpet at Michael Kors' Fall-Winter 2022 show at New York Fashion Week last night (2/15) and chatted about her new nominations with ET. Blake said, "Academy of Country Music was not on my vision board."

When asked what was next in her music career, she quipped, "Oh my gosh, I don't know, I don't know." She then joked, "Tell Beyoncé to stop calling me!"

Other nominees in the Video of the Year category are Chris Young and Kane Brown for "Famous Friends," Miranda Lambert and Elle King for "Drunk (And I Don't Wanna Go Home)," Jason Aldean and Carrie Underwood for "If I Didn't Love You," and Carly Pearce and Ashley McBryde for "Never Wanted To Be That Girl."

The ACM Awards will air live on Prime Video on March 7, 2022, at 8 pm ET. The show will be hosted by Dolly Partin, Jimmie Allen, and Gabby Barrett.

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Nancy Brooks has been working in the country music industry for almost 30 years. She has interviewed pretty much any country star you can think of. In the late 1990s, she started working with Dolly Parton. And yes, Nancy reports that Parton is as sweet as you would think. She loves her life in country music and has been backstage at every CMA Awards show since the late 1990s. Many of her stories are from her one-on-one interviews. She was there at the beginning of the incredible careers of many music superstars today, including Taylor Swift, Shania Twain, and Blake Shelton, and has interviewed them multiple times throughout the years.