AP: It's hard to overemphasize how much reality television is integrated with country music at CMA Fest, both in terms of people who are not musicians who are on reality TV — the Chrisleys, the Property Brothers — and also televised music contests. I saw two different American Idol contestants either get up and perform with or perform at stars. Mickey Guyton, who will be releasing her full-length album this year — a great new country voice — she invited an American Idol contestant, Tristan McIntosh, who had covered a Mickey Guyton song in her Idol audition, to join her onstage. Martina McBride's onstage interview at the convention center also featured an American Idol contestant, which was a little more jarring. During the Q&A segment of the event, a man got called on and said "I have an American Idol contestant here who wants to sing your song to you, Martina." (I didn't catch the woman's name.) And she jumped up and sang it to her. Martina handled it with a lot of grace, but I thought, wow, I couldn't imagine it happening to Eddie Vedder, who was performing with Pearl Jam out of Bonnaroo the same weekend. He might invite a fan onstage, but that fan wouldn't attempt to upstage him. Only a country star would be expected to tolerate that kind of invasion of her artistic space.