CMA Awards 2025: Talking Smack, Taking Names

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🗓️ 21 November 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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The 2025 CMA Awards took Nashville by storm this week, crowning new winners and welcoming fresh faces. In this special bonus episode of Rolling Stone’s Nashville Now podcast, we break down the good, the bad, and the “what were they thinking?!” Country music journalist Marissa R. Moss joins host Joseph Hudak to heap praise, talk smack, and question if the country music establishment finally got it right. Country is Here…Nashville is Now. Check out our Hear Now playlist on Spotify, updated weekly. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:49.8	All right.
0:50.7	Hey, everybody.
0:52.8	Welcome to Rolling Stones in Nashville now. I'm Joseph Hudak, Senior Music Editor,
0:56.9	and your host, Country is here. Nashville is now. It is the day after the CMA Awards here in Nashville,
1:04.4	59 CMAs 2025, and we are here with Marissa R. Moss by colleague and country music scholar,
1:11.6	a light in the darkness, and we're going to talk about the CMAs and break them all down.
1:16.6	That's why we're here. That's what we're here. Hi, Marissa.
1:19.6	Hi.
1:20.6	Thanks for having me.
1:21.6	Thank you. I'm so happy you're here.
1:22.6	It's fun to have this medium to discuss the CMAs in real time and not just write about it.
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