Posted on 11/09/2017 3:56:15 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
The 51st Annual CMA Awards saw the best in county music come together, but it was Garth Brooks that took home the top prize, being crowned entertainer of the year.
"The most important thing other than God Himself is you, the poeple who allow us to be in the greatest music ever. Country music man," the star said while accepting his award. "I love you."
The show started off on a somber note and quickly segued into political quips with hosts Carrie Underwood and Brad Paisley mocking the president.
The evening began with the first verse of “Amazing Grace” performed by Eric Church before Keith Urban, Lady Antebellum, Darius Rucker and more teamed up to perform “Hold My Hand.”
Underwood and Paisley hosted the show for the 10th consecutive year, and Underwood opened the show by listing off recent tragedies, like the shooting in Las Vegas that claimed the lives of 58 country music fans at the Route 91 Harvest Festival last month.
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“Modern country music is just bad rock with a fiddle” - Tom Petty
I was only half listening to this from the kitchen but when I heard that line with "maybe he'll think...", I thought the reference was to Rocket Man.
“Did they poke a little fun at the Bath-house Barry?
OF COURSE NOT!!!”
Sure they did...back when he was president. They poked at GWB also. A bit of light hearted political jabbing is fine. Carson did it back in his day. You take a HUMEROUS shot at the president. Any president. It used to be normal. It was not hateful or malicious like the spew coming from talk show boneheads of today. Very different world today. I thought their message was overall positive. We can’t be so serious all the time. There must be room for some light-hearted humour.
Pop with a twang. Stars too pretty.
With a few exceptions There hasn’t been real country music since the 70s.
“The little ditty they did was fun”
Not to me. Seemed like Carrie and Brad were just showing off how well they could read the teleprompter.
The show should have started with a song or two.
I listened to the show from another room while my wife watched it. I can’t relate to most of the “new” country music. Neither can my wife.
Lacking from this show and many others is any sign of humility from the performers. Maybe the Hollywood scandals are taking their toll. I don’t know who the entertainers are any more.
Garth Brooks is single-handedly responsible for the wussification of Country Music.
Thank you!...well said.
It was more ‘piling on’......and just like NASCAR fans, true country music fans bleed red, white and blue
THEY KNOW how hard our President works, and won’t take lightly brad/carrie portraying him on a ‘ gold plated toilet tweeting’
I truly despise these puny ankle biters!
Perhaps they haven’t noticed how the NFL is doing this season. The nation can ignore Fake Country music, too. Whatever happened to the Dixie Chick?
You truly don’t get it, do you?
Almost half the country piles on our President 24/7 and has since 2015!
He never gets a break!
Was it too much to ask these little tweeps to show some respect?
Picture of an eye. Picture of a heart. Picture of Hillary Clinton. Picture of a pine tree. Picture of a staff with quarter notes.
What jabs (gentle or pointed) did they make during the first year of Obambi’s 8 years?
What jabs did they make in the subsequent 7?
FUCMANashvegaspopcrud
Never saw it ... not with Barry.
And this:
“It’s fun to watch it that’s for sure, till little ‘Rocket Man’ starts a nuclear war. Maybe next time he’ll think before he tweets.”
Is not lighthearted humor. That's straight out of the Lyndon Johnson "Daisy Girl" ad.
Remember folks, almost the Entire Entertainment industry HATES AMERICA and everything it stands for.
Thank you, reasonable outlooks seem rare these days. I dont frankly know any Trump supporter who doesn’t think once in a while, oh no... why are you tweeting this.
I think people have forgotten that we jab at Presidents, Obama’s partial minority status made everyone squeamish about making fun.
CMA takes a knee.
It should be renamed “Southern Pop”
Most modern country songs come from New York City.
I like Jerry Reed, Don Williams, Buck Owens, and Marty a lot.
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