At this year’s CMA Awards in Nashville, two of country music’s biggest stars stepped onto the stage with a surprise twist: a ‘70s-style disco performance, spinning lights and all. Some fans are thrilled, others are angry. Now everyone is arguing over one simple question: can country music sound like this and still be country?
At the 2025 CMA Awards in Nashville, Chris Stapleton and Miranda Lambert walked onstage to sing their duet “A Song to Sing” and turned the whole arena into a ‘70s roller rink.
The song itself has already shaken things up. It mixes classic country storytelling with soul and a steady disco groove, and it has the awards buzz to prove it. Miranda even wore jewelry once worn by Dolly Parton, as if to say, “This still counts as country.”
Instead of trying to out-sing each other, they locked into tight harmonies and traded lines about life on the road, love, and the person waiting at home. Chris has said this song ties back to his wife, Morgane. Miranda has called it a portrait of the creative life.
Miranda Lambert & Chris Stapleton – “A Song To Sing” | Live at CMA Awards 2025
For all the debate about “going disco,” nothing explains this moment better than seeing how it actually unfolded onstage. The performance brings every detail from the article to life: the mirror-ball glow, the smooth ‘70s groove from the band, and that surprise country fiddle break cutting through the R&B pulse. You also watch their voices shift from playful back-and-forth to locked-in harmony on the chorus, turning tension into unity.
Miranda Lambert & Chris Stapleton – A Song To Sing (Official Music Video)
Long before the CMA lights and the spinning disco ball, he was a kid from a Kentucky coal-mining family, a dropped-out engineering student who quietly wrote hit after hit for other stars, fronted a bluegrass band, then a Southern rock band, and finally rebuilt country radio with Traveller.