Drag Queens Join Country Star Kelsea Ballerini on Stage at the CMAs

Four "RuPaul's Drag Race" stars took to the stage with CMT Music Awards co-host Kelsea Ballerini on Sunday, April 2, as Ballerini made a statement with her hit song "If You Go Down (I'm Goin' Down Too)," Rolling Stone reported.

"Standing in front of a white picket fence backdrop with her pink guitar in hand, Ballerini sang, 'Cause dirt on you is dirt on me/And we both know our hands ain't clean/If it all blows up and we end up on the news/If you go down/I'm goin' down too.'"

"Soon, she was joined by Jan Sport, Olivia Lux, Manila Luzon, and Kennedy Davenport – who also made an appearance on the red carpet that evening," RS added.

"The group served as Ballerini's backup dancers, while the singer sang and strummed along on a pink guitar," Entertainment Tonight recounted.

"After throwing her long, green coat to the side, Ballerini showed off a yellow two-piece, which she strutted her stuff in while the drag queens followed behind – all dressed in their best '60s-inspired wears."

The drag performers also spoke out on the subject of drag show bans, with Kennedy Davenport telling Austin, Texas newspaper Statesman that Lone Star State drag performers should "Continue to be your authentic self" in the face of state legislation banning the venerable theatrical art form, Rolling Stone detailed.

"We're still motivating young people, we're still inspiring them, we're still lifting them up because at the end of the day, we have a calling and we have a job as drag queens," Davenport declared.

Luzon told ET: "Just like all these amazing country music artists, we drag queens are also artists. And we deserve a space to be ourselves, express ourselves, and create something wonderful for everyone to enjoy."

Sport told ET that "any opportunity for us to share our gifts with the world is a blessing. So, it's more of us having a message to bless other people."

"Even the song, if you're going down, I'm going down too – it is about the celebration of being a community," Lux shared with ET, telling the entertainment outlet that the country star had encouraged the drag artists to "take up that space... this is your time as well, and amplify the fact that you're here."

"It's not bad," Sport added about the art of drag. "It's all good. It's all love. It's all total liberation – that's what the arts are all about."

"I love performance and I love self-expression and I love inclusivity," Ballerini told ET.

CMT took to Twitter to praise Ballerini and the drag queens, posting that Ballerini "SLAYED her #CMTAwards performance!"

Watch that performance in the video embedded in the tweet, below.