And what was the band thinking? and the music coach? and whatever production team they've assembled to guide these kids?
And therein lies what bugs me the most.
Remember when the phrase "flyover country" first came into the political scene? It was a sneering, derisive, dismissive description of the American Heartland. What we heard Kristy Lee sing is a symptom of the same sneering, derisive, dismissive attitude. What we heard was what some Hollywood urbanite artist (or worse yet - Kristy Lee, herself) thinks country music sounds or thinks that's how people out in flyover country would play it. How arrogant.
Either that or some dweeb discovered the pre-programmed "country" rhythm on his MIDI keyboard.
Either way, it was just bad.
Especially the music coach...the director...the production team! Were they snickering behind her back? They stood there in rehearsal and said—that’s dope, Kristy!
Christy Lee is really a country girl.
She’s from a little town just a few miles from here, and it truly “country.”
It’s got lots of ranches and farms, used to be the industry was logging, now it’s rural wood-based and small farms, and the music most folks listen to IS country.
There’s a restaurant right up the road from her house, and the paper said her Mom and family come in there all the time, they have “Christi Lee” days where they sell hot dogs and watch Idol.
I hated the performance, by the way, just hated it, and I love country.
But real country, Alison Krauss, Ernest Tubb, Ricky Skaggs, Bill Monroe, Hank Williams, etc.
Ed