Brad Paisley and Taylor Swift emerged as the night's biggest winners with three and two wins, respectively at 2009 CMT Music Awards on Tuesday, June 16. Photo Credit: Sawf NewsJune 17, 2009, (Sawf News) - Brad Paisley and Taylor Swift emerged as the night's biggest winners with three and two wins, respectively at 2009 CMT Music Awards on Tuesday, June 16.
Hosted by actor/comedian Bill Engvall, the Awards kicked off with an opening sketch featuring the widely-talked about collaboration between rap artist T-Pain and Taylor Swift, rapping to a new version of Taylor's hit Love Story, called Thug Story.
"T-Sweezy" rapped such lines as "you don't wanna fight me in my extra-small white T."
Paisley took home top honors for Male Video Of The Year ("Waitin' On A Woman"), Collaborative Video Of The Year ("Start A Band" with Keith Urban), and CMT Performance Of The Year, along with Alan Jackson, George Strait and Dierks Bentley (for Alan Jackson's "Country Boy" from Cmt Giants: Alan Jackson).
Taylor Swift brought home Female Video Of The Year and the night's highest honor for Video Of The Year ("Love Story"). Swift swept both of these categories for the second consecutive year.
For the seventh consecutive year, Rascal Flatts won Group Video Of The Year ("Every Day"); while Sugarland captured Duo Video Of The Year ("All I Want To Do"), which marks their third consecutive win in the Duo category.
Kid Rock won Wide Open Country Video Of The Year ("All Summer Long"); Zac Brown Band was this year's winner of Usa Weekend Breakthrough Video Of The Year ("Chicken Fried"); and director Trey Fanjoy won Video Director Of The Year for her entire body of work over the last year, which included Taylor Swift's Love Story.
Dierks Bentley kicked off the live show with his newest hit, Sideways, Darius Rucker introduced his third single, Alright, and was followed by Lady Antebellum, who reenacted the video for their nominated song, Lookin' For A Good Time. Brad Paisley performed his 10th consecutive and current #1 song, Then, and Taylor Swift recreated the video for her top 10 hit You Belong With Me.
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