Blake Shelton, Taylor Swift + More -- Top Tweets of the Week

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Every weekend, The Boot brings you the week's top tweets, so you can see what your favorite stars are chirping about! This week's top Twitter posts come from Blake Shelton,Frankie Ballard and more. Don't forget to follow The Boot on Twitter (@thebootdotcom).

Blake Shelton (@blakeshelton): "I asked Miranda if I could do @chelseahandler while I was in L.A. tonight. She said ok ... YES!! She completely misunderstood what I meant!!"

Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13): "Wow. I'm still the same as I was in elementary school -- the last to realize it's April Fools day. WAY confused until someone reminds me."

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Eric Church and Wife Katherine Expecting First Baby!

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This time around, he's happy about those two little pink lines.

Eric Church and wife of three years, Katherine, are expecting their first child this fall. "Katherine and I are very excited and are looking forward to becoming parents," reports the dad-to-be. "This year has gotten off to an amazing start for us, and this news has made it so much better than we could have ever anticipated."

Of course, Eric's huge hit, 'Two Pink Lines,' is the real-life story of waiting in angst for the results of a pregnancy test several years ago. "I have this song about pregnancy. It's a personal song for me, because two pink lines happened to me when I was unmarried and a teenager," Eric confessed at the CMA Songwriters series last year. "When I first played this for my mom, I was expecting her to be really bothered by it. She goes, 'I love that song. Why are you singing about two pinklions?' I said, 'Mom, I happen to love lions; I'm a big cat fan.' It took her a long time to figure it out."

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Blake Shelton, Luke Bryan + More to Play USO/ACM Concert

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Blake Shelton, Luke Bryan, Little Big Town,Montgomery Gentry, Craig Morgan, Brett Eldredge and Sunny Sweeney will perform a free, private USO show for Nellis Air Force Base troops and their families. Hosted by the Academy of Country Music and the USO for the second consecutive year, the concert takes place April 2 as part of 'The Week Vegas Goes Country.'

Blake Shelton has additional plans while at Nellis Air Force Base. Blake will host the first-ever NRA Country/ACM Celebrity Shoot. The event is a 13-station, 50-target sporting clays competition for 20-26 teams of five shooters with a celebrity captain. Prizes will go to the top three teams.

"We get to do something we love to do, with our fans, and help raise awareness for a worthy cause while having a great time," Blake says.

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Brad Paisley Says Working With Alabama Was 'Mind-Blowing'

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Brad Paisley's latest single, 'This Is Country Music' is still sitting pretty in the top five on the charts, but the superstar already has his mind on his follow-up single, 'Old Alabama,' which is just starting to hit the airwaves.

"My next single has something that's really cool, I think, that we came up with when we were writing this new album," he tells Buffalo, N.Y. radio station WYRK. "We were writing a song that mentions a few things and realized that the perfect bridge for the song is the bridge from 'Mountain Music.' And so I contacted [Alabamamember] Randy Owen and asked if he wanted to write it with us, and then got those guys back together. Instead of sampling a piece of 'Mountain Music,' I had those guys come in the studio and record it. It was one of the most mind-blowing experiences of my life."

The reigning CMA Entertainer of the Year admits he was more than a little starstruck when he hung out in the studio with the legendary band. "That's the biggest group in the history of country music!" he gushes.

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Brad Paisley, 'This Is Country Music' -- Story Behind the Lyrics

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The Boot talked to hit songwriter Chris DuBois about Brad Paisley's latest single, 'This Is Country Music,' which he co-wrote with the country superstar last year. The tune is the title track from Brad's forthcoming album, scheduled for release in May.

This song was Brad's idea. When Brad and I write songs, it's never a one day event. This song is a good example of that. We talked about it on the phone first. He called me up one day, and he said, "I want to write a song called 'This Is Country Music.'" I remember thinking, "Hmm ... OK, but what would it be about?" He told me it would be about all the things he had found himself saying in interviews over the years about country music -- what he loves, what inspires him -- all of that.

He wanted to write a song about what makes country music as a format unique from all the other genres of music. There are no topics that are forbidden, unless they are risqué. That's where the idea stemmed from.

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Jerrod Niemann Song Featured on 'Glee'!

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'Glee' is going country once again! Just a week after the hit TV show's characters sang a rousing rendition of Lady Antebellum's 'Need You Now,' they're set to tackle another country song about being a little drunk,Jerrod Niemann's 'How Can I Be So Thirsty.' In fact, the title of tonight's (Februay 22) episode is 'Blame It on the Alcohol.'

"How can I be so thirsty this morning / After all I drank last night?" Jerrod sings in the chorus of the humorous song, found on his chart-topping debut CD, 'Judge Jerrod and the Hung Jury.'

'Glee' airs tonight (February 22) at 8:00 PM ET on FOX. The theme of tonight's episode is the dangers of underage drinking, with the cast also performing Ke$ha's 'Tik Tok,' Human League's 'Don't You Want Me,' Rudy Toombs' 'One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer' (most famously covered by George Thorogood) and, of course, Jamie Foxx's 'Blame It.'

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Brad Paisley Has a Special Corvette Named After Him

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If you have seen the video for Brad Paisley's 'Welcome to the Future,' you might remember the three different Corvettes featured in the clip. Knowing what a big fan of the car he was, Chevrolet invited the singer to take part in a Corvette Dream Giveaway contest in which one winner would drive away with not one, but two Corvettes, one of of which is a one-of-a-kind Brad Paisley Hero Edition Corvette ZR1, painted ermine white with red stripes. The other is a restored 1967 Corvette Stingray convertible. Both cars were presented to Brian Landgren of Washington over the weekend, with all proceeds going to the Kids Wish Network's Hero program, of which Brad has been involved with since 2001.

For the car nuts, some of the specs of the Brad Paisley custom car include a 6.2 liter V8 engine with a performance upgrade system producing more than 720 horse power, which is more than a standard Corvette's 638-hp. If you were to look under the hood, you would also find Brad's signature.

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