It was a threepeat — and on his birthday! Coach Blake Shelton won his third season in a row of ‘The Voice‘ Tuesday (June 18), as his team member, 16-year-old Danielle Bradbery, nabbed the big win! That’s right. Texas girl Bradbery won Season 4. What a birthday present for Papa Bear Blake!

Bradbery was the odds-on favorite, according to the bet-makers in Vegas who predicted she’d notch the win. She beat out Oklahoma duo the Swon Brothers, who were the first pair to make it to the finals in the show’s history. The Bros. were also part of Team Blake, and they placed third.

Bradbery beat out quirky singer Michelle Chamuel to take the crown. The young star won America’s collective heart with her God-given ability to sing country music and her sweet and wholesome nature. Shelton helped ‘usher’ — pun intended, as Chamuel was a Team Usher contestant — the teen in with smart song choices that helped her beat out her fellow competitors each and every week.

So Season 4 is on the books. Shelton won Season 2 with Jermaine Paul and Season 3 with Cassadee Pope. The latter’s career is rolling right along.

We expect to see and hear a lot more from Bradbery in the future. If she’s this talented at 16, imagine her at 20? Or 26? We can’t even begin to …

Congrats again to Danielle Bradbery and Team Blake Shelton on the big win. This likely means that every contestant will want to be picked by Shelton during Season 5′s blind auditions.

Some of the most beautiful singers in country music have revealed that they’re still plenty beautiful when the makeup is wiped away. Photos of singers like Taylor Swift, Reba McEntire and Sugarland‘s Jennifer Nettles before and after a MAC attack are shocking, but not in the way many would expect.

Pictures of country stars without makeup have been appearing with astonishing frequency lately. A few of the women scrapped the eye liner, lipstick and blush for magazine shoots, while at least two others gave fans a glimpse of their natural beauty without prompting. Tabloids might feed on capturing celebs without makeup, but with these ladies, we say let them!

Superstar Carrie Underwood is familiar with the tornado siren, having grown up in Checotah, Oklahoma and even attending college in the Sooner state. The recent deadly tornado in Moore hit home for her, and on Wednesday she’ll sing in memory of the deceased victims at the 2013 CMT Music Awards.

Underwood will perform her latest single, ‘See You Again,’ with two dozen members of Nashville’s Christ Church choir, and it sounds like it will be a beautiful, touching, heartfelt performance that will pay tribute to the victims. “The choir, I’ve never done that before and they just kind of take it to a whole ethereal place,” she says, according to the Washington Post.

Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert sang "Over You" on The Voice last night for the people of Oklahoma, their home state.

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Carrie Underwood‘s celebrity status makes her seem almost untouchable, but she’s not afraid to admit that, just like every other human being, she has flaws. The singer recently opened up in the cover issue of Marie Claire and explained just exactly what her idiosyncrasies are — and why they don’t make her a sociopath.

“We were never a huggy family. Or a ‘let’s talk it out’ family,” the singer reveals. “Technically I have siblings, but they are quite a bit older than me — I was the accident — so I have the only-child syndrome going on. I’m a little more selfish, a little more independent, a little closed.”

“I do wish I were softer,” she admits. “I wish I were able to form relationships better. But hey, I mean …” she pauses, laughing, “I’m not a sociopath.”

In fact, the songstress’ tendency to be a more independent and not super touchy-feely translated to a difficult transition at the grassroots of her brand new singing career.

“At the beginning of my career, I used to have panic attacks,” she shares. “People were touching me, screaming ­– it made me really nervous. In public, I just get nervous. It’s a physical reaction, feeling like the walls are closing in.”

“The fans are great. It’s not their fault,” Underwood clarifies. “I don’t ever want to come across as ungrateful. But on my end, it is hard for me to process. Because I am still just me.”

The ‘Two Black Cadillacs’ superstar accepts that perhaps she’s not always the greatest friend when it comes to her personal relationships. “I’m probably not great at talking or understanding emotional things. I’ll totally listen. But I won’t have a lot of advice to give,” she spills. “I’m bad at calling to check in, the long conversation. But in the ways that really matter, I’m there. I would donate a kidney. The people they hate, I hate.”

While the singer is composed in every performance — whether it’s a heartfelt ballad on her old stomping grounds of ‘American Idol’ or a dramatic No. 1 hit — she isn’t always completely put together, according to her hockey playing husband, Mike Fisher. In fact, he calls her ”the queen of awkward moments: and says that his wife “is brutally honest sometimes. She doesn’t know how to hide her feelings.”

In Underwood’s words, “Anything that can be made awkward, I will make it awkward.”

In spite of not being a people person — her mom’s words — Underwood is still an inspiration to so many. In fact, her honesty in opening up about her flaws just adds to the great respect that millions of fans already have for her.

On ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!,’ the late night TV host makes celebrities read mean tweets that regular people have sent out into the Twitterverse about them. This particular batch of nasty, 140-characters-or-less transmissions included country music’s own Brad Paisley and Kid Rock.

The tweet about Paisley was extra mean, filled with lots of “f” bombs and bleeps. Paisley certainly had a sense of humor about it — which is pretty much par for the course with the superstar, known for his love of pranking tourmates. He offered up a crooked smirk as he read the tweet, and the look on his face was priceless, to say nothing of hilarious.

Kid Rock’s personal odor was in question in the tweet sent his direction, and he had an answer for it, which was pretty hysterical, as well.

It’s always refreshing when celebs have a sense of humor about themselves, as clearly, Paisley and Kid Rock do! Jessica Alba, Russell Brand, Andy Samberg and more also read mean tweets, so it wasn’t just country acts getting picked on.

It just goes to show you that what you send out into the digital universe may very well end up in front of a celeb, so be careful what you tweet.