Days after his acceptance speech at the Country Music Awards went viral, Trent Wilmon is clearing the air.
Just last week, Wilmon appeared to comment on up-and-coming country singer Shaboozy while accepting the CMA award for Album of the Year for Cody Johnson’s “Leather.”
“It takes a lot of people to make great records, and I have to say this is for the cowboys who have been kicking Shabzi for years,” Wilmon said in his speech, but many People felt condemned by this. Bar song singer.
After the speech, Shabuji posted a photo of himself shrugging on X (formerly Twitter) with the caption, “Nobody kicked me!”
Shabouzi performs a medley at the 58th Annual CMA Awards held at Bridgestone Arena on Wednesday, November 20, 2024 in Nashville, Tennessee (AP Photo/George Walker IV)
Wilmon’s speech received a lot of backlash online, but he now wants to clear the air.
“Okay…I was so shocked and excited that what I wanted to say is that I’m so proud of @codyjohnson. He’s been putting out and performing amazing music for the past 15 years. I’ve struggled to do this and it wasn’t an overnight success.” I was so proud that he was finally recognized!” he wrote in an Instagram post.
He then praised Shabboozi’s response to his “failure” and praised him for having a “great sense of humour”.
“Congratulations on your #1 song for 17 weeks!” he said, concluding his note.
So far, Shabuji has not responded to this post.
