Country music singer Blake Shelton took a dig at Britney Spears's performance skills during an awards show here.

"If you don't like live music, then you need to go down the block and see Britney Spears," he said live on stage at the ACM Awards, reports eonline.com.

Shelton co-hosted the country music awards show with Luke Bryan.

Surprisingly, there was no cut away to Britney's sister, Jamie Lynn, who happened to be sitting in the audience.