Country belter and pop superstar perform 'Think I'm in Love With You' from Stapleton's 'Higher' album
Chris Stapleton brought a surprise guest to the ACM Awards stage: Dua Lipa joined the country star for a dazzling performance of “Think I'm in Love With You.”
Written solo by Stapleton for the 2023 album Higher, “Think I'm in Love With You” is already groovy as a studio recording. But on stage with Lipa, it got stuffy, with the singers playfully riffing and belting alongside each other. Lipa hit the stage singing a few bars of solo before Stapleton joined her. Stapleton and Lipa were backed by a band of country stars, including Morgan Stapleton on backing vocals and a 13-piece string band.
Stapleton called Lipa “the queen of good music”. Lipa, a big fan of his music, approached Stapleton to suggest they sing together. They made the duet in just two days, the pair revealed in a backstage interview with Bobby Bones.
The Stapleton Awards show that shows are usually essential. At the 2022 ACMs, he delivered a wild version of “Watch You Burn.” In 2021, he teamed up with Miranda Lambert for a sensational duet on “Maggie's Song.” And at the 2016 show, he roared through fan favorite “Fire Away.” (Earlier this month, Stapleton also gave a mesmerizing performance on The Jennifer Hudson Show, singing “Loving You on My Mind” with Hudson and the War and Treaty.)
A few weeks ago, Lipa released her new album Radical Optimism, a record he said nodded “to the idea of riding through chaos with grace and feeling like you can weather any storm.” The project was updated by Blur, Oasis and other British pop groups. “This record is a little more raw,” he told Rolling Stone in a January cover story. “I want to capture the essence of youth and freedom and having fun and letting things happen, whether they're good or bad. You can't change it. You just have to roll with the punches whatever happens in your life.”
Lipa's appearance at the ACM Awards was just one of the pop star's many cameos. Post Malone, who just released his country single “I Had Some Help,” Avril Lavigne, Gwen Stefani and fellow countryman Noah Kahan performed at the show.
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