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She's singing Shotgun at the ACM Awards with Rascall Flatts!
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For Christina Aguilera, the duet with Rascal Flatts on Sunday's 50th Academy of Country Music Awards will be a chance to introduce a new song.
For Rascal Flatts, it's a chance for redemption.
The two acts will perform a pair of songs — Aguilera's Shotgun and Flatts' current single Riot — during the awards ceremony. "We're going to do some of her song, then go into Riot," says Flatts bassist Jay DeMarcus. "It's going to be a nice, seamless transition and a really powerful performance."
Shotgun was written for Aguilera's character on the ABC series Nashville, where she'll be playing Jade St. John, a pop star taking a shot at the country market in a three-episode story arc that begins tonight (ABC, 10 ET/PT).
"We are putting a different spin on the song for the awards," she says, "but it's a quiet, beautiful song about true love that lasts a lifetime."
Flatts, which is up for top vocal group for the first time since 2012, views the performance as a way to rebuild its reputation after getting caught lip-syncing their song Rewind during last year's awards show. Lead singer Gary LeVox had lost his voice shortly before the ceremony.
"It's the only time we've ever tried it," DeMarcus says, adding that "we're still getting asked about it." This year's performance, he says, is "a chance to redeem ourselves, to show everybody we have a wonderfully gifted singer in Gary and a wonderful partnership with Christina."
DeMarcus says the group jumped at the opportunity to perform with Aguilera. "When you make a list of people you want to collaborate with, over the years that list gets shorter. Christina was one of those names that's always been at the top of the list, but we'd never had the chance to work with her."
Aguilera has become friends with ACM co-host Blake Shelton and his wife, Miranda Lambert, through working with Shelton on NBC's The Voice. She hasn't met the three members of Rascal Flatts, though she says, "I really love the rich tone of (LeVox's) voice. He has a sound that fans recognize immediately."
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http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/m...ards/25727203/
They'd better stan! Ugh I can't wait!
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So excited for Legend X ha new era 
