Country music legend Reba McEntire hosted the Academy of Country Music Awards for the 15th time on Sunday night. Usually, these sorts of things are marked by political dialogue and jokes aimed at President Donald Trump. However, Reba refused to slam the president, and hours later, she received some huge news.

Reba McEntire was all class on Sunday night when she hosted the ACM Awards. She even brought the crowd to their feet when she donned her infamous red dress from 25-years-ago. According to Fox News, the host made headlines in 1993 for the revealing red dress she wore to the CMA Awards that year. While the red-hot number may not seem risqué today in a world of leotards and foam fingers, Reba’s infamous dress was quite shocking in the early ’90s.

This, however, was not even the most noteworthy event of the night. As country music fans from across the nation tuned in to watch their favorite artists perform their latest hits, they started to notice something; namely, that politics was absent from the evening. Viewers loved this, as evidenced by the show’s impressive ratings:

It was no contest last night, with the “53rd annual “Academy of Country Music Awards,” hosted by Reba McEntire, holding a significant overnight advantage over competing “American Idol” on ABC. While the true test, of course, are the demographics, “The ACM Awards” at a 7.2 rating/12 share in the household overnights from 8-11 p.m. ET bested ABC’s “American Idol” (4.2/ 7 from 8-10 p.m. ET) by 71 percent. Compared to one year earlier (6.5/11 on 4/02/17), “The ACM Awards” increased by 11 percent. And that 6.5 rating in the household overnights last year translated into 10.85 million viewers and a 2.1 rating/7 share in adults 18-49, based on the Live+Same Day data. [Source: Programming Insider]

Reba had warned the public ahead of Sunday night’s award show that they could expect her to leave politics out of it. Indeed, if there was anyone looking for agenda-driven programming, they weren’t going to find it in the ACM’s hosted by the legendary songstress.

“This year the idea is to have fun,” Reba said in an interview ahead of her hosting gig. “There’s a lot of political things you can address, stuff going on in the world. That’s not our theme; our theme is to have fun, not to be mean, not to be catty, just to have a great night of entertainment, great music, seeing everybody and introducing new music. It’s going to be a fun night … I want it to be positive and uplifting and so does everybody at the ACM. They first came to me and said, ‘Our theme this year is fun. Let’s go have fun.’ I said, ‘Absolutely, I’m for it.'”

This is precisely why people tune in to watch these things — they want to be entertained, not lectured. Music fans want to see their favorite artists perform their favorite songs. It’s an escape, not a chance to push an agenda on a public already sick and tired of partisan talking points.

It’s no coincidence that as award shows like the ACMs are gaining in popularity, the Academy Awards and Golden Globes have seen a steady decline in ratings in recent years. These shows are always dominated by politically-charged rhetoric from some leftist “comedian” or Hillary-loving actor.

Hollywood would do well to take a lesson from Nashville on this subject. Reba’s policy of avoiding politics at the ACM’s was a resounding success, and it’s not surprising with the public growing increasingly fed-up with out-of-touch entertainers trying to indoctrinate them at every turn. Country music scored a big win on Sunday when Reba refused to make her hosting gig a Trump-bashing nightmare.