Speak in regards to the trailblazers! Nation icon Reba McEntire joined Lainey Wilson and Miranda Lambert to debut the trio’s emotional new collaboration “Trailblazer” towards the top of the 2025 ACM Awards Thursday (Could 8) at The Star in Frisco, Texas. The tune had dropped on streaming companies simply hours earlier, at 8 p.m. ET.
The celebrated nation artists took to a stage that was dressed to look like a barren desert, the skies behind them a heat orange because the silhouettes of birds fluttered by means of the the scene. Wearing matching brown suede outfits accented with turquoise, the three girls traded lyrics earlier than harmonizing on the refrain, singing, “Discuss a trailblazer, cuttin’ one half at a time/ Working like a dream chaser, residing on a prayer and a rhyme/ Put a flag within the floor to the nation sound, to the rhythm of your individual freeway/ Discuss a trailblazer, I’m rolling down the street you paved.”
On the finish of the tune, McEntire, who was additionally internet hosting the present for the 18th time, took the arms of her collaborators, and collectively, the three girls walked to the entrance of the stage and took a bow collectively.
The day earlier than the ACM Awards, the trio spoke to Billboard‘s Melinda Newman about their new ballad, which pays tribute to those that influenced them and paved the best way. “We needed to lean in fairly laborious to paying tribute to every particular person,” shared Lambert, who was the main focus of Billboard‘s inaugural Energy Pets function alongside her canine Bellamy. “We needed to do it strategically, although, as a result of we didn’t need it to be so blatant — however extra like a secret factor that you would need to take heed to it twice.”
“We have been simply having a dialog about how [Lambert and McEntire] have influenced me and [about] passing the torch and blazing trails for one another,” Wilson additionally famous. “Technology after era, it’s going to proceed, however we obtained to maintain blazing these trails for the subsequent one.”
The ACM Awards are produced by Dick Clark Productions, which is owned by Penske Media Eldridge, a three way partnership between Eldridge Industries and Billboard mum or dad firm Penske Media.
