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(Photo by Christie Goodwin/Redferns via Getty Images) Christie Goodwin—Redferns via Getty Images  by [Eliana Dockterman](https://time.com/author/eliana-dockterman/)  ## Eliana Dockterman Correspondent May 16, 2014 11:35 PM UTC The new ABC talent competition _Rising Star_ has tapped Brad Paisley to join Kesha and Ludacris as “experts” on the show. _Rising Star_ will premiere on June 22 with Josh Groban as the host. It’s the first interactive music competition: viewers can vote through an app to determine the winner each episode. The results will show up in real time, and singers will be able to see how they are doing as they perform. “I think being honest is a key thing, but finding a funny way to say things would be good,” Paisley [told](http://www.people.com/article/brad-paisley-rising-star-expert) _People_. “Humor fixes anything. I like to laugh at anything that’s going on so I’ll probably be doing that to my own fault. I’ll probably be sticking my foot in my mouth here and there.” \[[_People_](http://www.people.com/article/brad-paisley-rising-star-expert)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/103392/brad-paisley-joins-abcs-rising-star/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/103392/brad-paisley-joins-abcs-rising-star/"},"headline":"Brad Paisley Joins ABC's Rising Star","datePublished":"2014-05-16T23:35:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T07:53:59.532Z","description":"The country singer will join Kesha and Ludacris in a new singing competition premiering in June that lets viewers vote in real-time","url":"https://time.com/103392/brad-paisley-joins-abcs-rising-star/","keywords":["Television","Kesha"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8c71d12fa17b6853/69868ff01eebf71136370f39/479173217.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Eliana Dockterman","jobTitle":"Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/eliana-dockterman/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8c71d12fa17b6853/69868ff01eebf71136370f39/479173217.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"C2C Country 2 Country Music Festival 2014 Day 2 At London O2 Arena","caption":"C2C Country 2 Country Music Festival 2014 Day 2 At London O2 Arena","creditText":"Christie Goodwin—Redferns via Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/103392/brad-paisley-joins-abcs-rising-star/","name":"Brad Paisley Joins ABC's Rising Star"}}]}] ```