Gwen Stefani’s and husband Blake Shelton’s American Music Awards performances are driving viewers b-a-n-a-n-a-s — but not for the reason you may think.

The show, which aired on Monday, was billed as a live celebration of music’s biggest names.

Yet fans were quick to notice that neither Stefani nor Shelton performed their sets live, even though it appeared that way to viewers at home. At the actual ceremony, prerecorded videos were played to an audience who were left watching an empty stage.

In one TikTok video posted on Tuesday, a visibly annoyed user filmed her view: a screen showing Stefani performing some of her greatest hits while the real star was noticeably absent. 

Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani at NBC's "Opry 100: A Live Celebration" held at The Grand Ole Opry House on March 19 in Nashville. Variety via Getty Images

“She’s not here,” the user says, equal parts baffled and betrayed. 

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A separate TikTok video captured Shelton’s performance, also delivered on Monday night via screen rather than stage. 

“When Blake Shelton is performing at the AMA awards, but there is no Blake Shelton in sight,” the voiceover said. Other performers, like Benson Boone, Renee Rapp and Alex Warren, sang their songs Monday night in front of the audience.

Social media users on the platform had a field day with the faux performances on the platform. 

One user commented, “The whole show could have been an email.”

Another declared, “This award show was the worst ever. None of it made sense.”

Interestingly, while his set was pretaped, Shelton was in the building — at least long enough to introduce his wife, whom he says he has a lot of “love” for. 

On Tuesday, Shelton took to X, formerly Twitter, to address the pretaped fiasco.

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“Just now seeing these stories about Gwen and I pretaping our performances for the AMA’s. We came and performed when the show asked us to.. Really nothing else to say,” he wrote.

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