Entertainer of the Year
Kenny Chesney
Brad Paisley
George Strait
Taylor Swift
Keith Urban
Yes your eys are reading correctly and if they are like mine they are confused!! How I wish explanations came with all the nominations, cause there are a few that are questionalble.
I realize that her album has gone 4x platinum and that she is a teenage phenom but really Entertainer of the Year, that does not make her. Let's look at the criteria again;
This award is for the act displaying the greatest competence in all aspects of the entertainment field. Voter should give consideration not only to recorded performance, but also to the in-person performance, staging, public acceptance, attitude, leadership, and overall contribution to the Country Music image. Award to artist.
I'll give her the recorded part because computers help, I'll give her the staging cause she does use a lot of props and runs around head banging to her non-country music (if you like that sort of thing), she even has half of the public acceptance, the half being under the age of 21 (majority).
But she is not good for the Country Music image when she is prancing around putting out pop remixes of her songs, that also does not give any leadership to other artist.
Most of all she can't sing live at all.
Now she has only put on about 30 of her own headlining shows in the eligbility period, which is not a lot compared to others that should have been nominated, can you say Sugarland, Carrie Underwood, or Rascal Flatts!
The CMA members really screwed up the image of this award for this year.
*side note - George Strait should not have been nominated either, despite how good he is, it has become obligatory for him to get the nomination, in this and many categories
It must be a joke are we sure the date is right and it is not april 1st!
ReplyDeleteCome on, give the girl some credit. She's active in every aspect of her tour; which is sold-out in every city. The ideas are all her's; she's in on the approval of everything she does. It's not all people under 21 who listen to TS. I do understand that some people were left out of EOTY who should have been nominated, but let's not slam the one's who were. To discount TS is to discount everyone else who was picked and say the CMA people don't know what they're doing; and they do.
ReplyDeleteThe article says it all, especially the part about "can't sing live". TS can't sing with props. Sorry but the truth hurts. TP, I'm not sure if CMA people know what they are doing. Taylor as EOTY...It is a Joke!
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