Post Malone, Morgan Wallen, & HARDY Cover Joe Diffie At CMA Awards

Last night, the 57th annual Country Music Association Awards went down at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena, and the night made for a fascinating snapshot of a weird era in country music. Country dominated the pop charts this year, but most of the big country hits were leftfield successes in one way or another, whether they were culture-war anthems or alt-country outsider jams. The biggest story of the year, in both country and pop, is the overwhelming success of troubled young man Morgan Wallen, who was already huge but who found ways to get even huger. At last night’s show, we got the inevitable-in-retrospect moment where Morgan Wallen joined forces with Post Malone.