Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani each carried out at Monday night time’s 2025 American Music Awards. Shelton made his AMAs debut with a run via his patriotic anthem “Keep Nation or Die Tryin’,” after which returned later to introduce a medley from his spouse Stefani. The No Doubt singer and solo star opened together with her current country-tinged Bouquet single “Swallow My Tears,” earlier than shifting on to fast runs via her 2006 hit “The Candy Escape” and Her 2005 Billboard Sizzling 100 No. 1 hit “Hollaback Woman.”
Whereas each performances lit up the stage, attendees of the present on the Fontainebleau Las Vegas started posted afterwards that viewers at house could not have clocked that the units have been pre-taped, leaving the viewers within the room gazing an empty stage for Shelton and watching a video of Stefani’s mini-set.
Although the published didn’t be aware in actual time that the performances have been pre-taped, the observe is commonplace at main awards exhibits such because the AMAs. A supply near the manufacturing confirmed to Billboard that each artists pre-taped their performances earlier than stay audiences.
On Tuesday night time (Could 27), Shelton posted a response to the chatter on X, writing, “Simply now seeing these tales about Gwen and I pretaping our performances for the AMA’s. We got here and carried out when the present requested us to.. Actually nothing else to say,” including a shrugging emoji to the put up that was later re-posted by Stefani.
At press time Stefani had not provided any remark of her personal, however she did seem to live-blog the present on Monday night time, giving shout-outs to Benson Boone and Gloria Estefan in actual time.
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