2 minutes | Friday, November 14, 2025
Going back to November of 2017 – the year Garth Brooks won the Entertainer of the Year award at the CMAs for the 6th time, but was hit with backlash after fans caught on that he was lip syncing during his performance of “Ask Me How I Know”
Viewers quickly noticed that something was off, and after the show Garth admitted that he had been lip syncing, blaming it on being sick and in the middle of a 12-show run in 10 days.
He was getting blasted with tweets calling him out on Twitter, and even Eric Church had a stance on the controversy, saying, “So the winner of the biggest category of the night lip-synced in the biggest moment of the show? F that! I didn’t like his excuse at all.”
He also said that lip-syncing crossed a line, and he wouldn’t want young artists thinking it’s okay when it’s not.