ACM AWARDS 2015...TONIGHT FROM TEXAS!

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My choices would have been...

Here are the nominees for the 50th Annual ACM Awards:

Entertainer of the Year

Jason Aldean
Garth Brooks
Luke Bryan
Miranda Lambert
Florida Georgia Line

Female Vocalist of the Year

Brandy Clark
Miranda Lambert
Martina McBride
Kacey Musgraves
Carrie Underwood

New Artist of the Year

Sam Hunt
Thomas Rhett
Cole Swindell

Album of the Year

Old Boots, New Dirt, Jason Aldean
Pain Killer, Little Big Town
Platinum, Miranda Lambert
Riser, Dierks Bentley
The Outsiders, Eric Church

Song of the Year (Award to Songwriter)

"American Kids," Kenny Chesney
"Automatic," Miranda Lambert
"Drink a Beer," Luke Bryan
"Follow Your Arrow," Kacey Musgraves
"Give Me Back My Hometown," Eric Church
"I Hold On," Dierks Bentley

Single Record of the Year

"American Kids," Kenny Chesney
"Automatic," Miranda Lambert
"Dirt," Florida Georgia Line
"Drunk on a Plane," Dierks Bentley
"I Don't Dance," Lee Brice

Vocal Group of the Year

Lady Antebellum
Little Big Town
Rascal Flatts
The Band Perry
Zac Brown Band

Vocal Duo of the Year

Brothers Osborne
Dan + Shay
Florida Georgia Line
Maddie & Tae
The Swon Brothers

Vocal Event of the Year

"Lonely Tonight," Blake Shelton featuring Ashley Monroe
"Meanwhile Back at Mama's," Tim McGraw featuring Faith Hill
"Somethin' Bad," Miranda Lambert Duet with Carrie Underwood
"The South," The Cadillac Three featuring Florida Georgia Line, Dierks Bentley and Mike Eli
"This Is How We Roll," Florida Georgia Line featuring Luke Bryan

Video of the Year

"American Kids," Kenny Chesney
"Cop Car," Keith Urban
"Drunk on a Plane," Dierks Bentley
"I'm Not Gonna Miss You," Glen Campbell
"Somethin' Bad," Miranda Lambert Duet with Carrie Underwood

...I skipped a few categories

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Apr 19, 2015 23:03:24 GMT -5 miranda3 said:

Forgot it was on. Was Toby Keith there? I know he wasn't nominated for anything, but did he perform? 

Saw that Luke Bryan won entertainer. Not impressed. I don't really understand why he is the current superstar of the moment.

I've always liked Luke...it's the farmer thing.

But my guess is it's because he's sold over two million copies of his last two studio albums. Luke was has also done 7 Spring Break EP's ..one for each of the past 7 years. After Spring Break 2, they'd gained enough of a movement and momentum for them to chart well when they were released. Check out this beach crowd in his latest "Spring Breakdown"...and notice the demographics of the people in the video.



Luke's been growing his own following, despite the criticism that he does too many songs about farming.

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Adding in some other numbers for comparison:

Miranda Lambert --platinum (million) certifications for her 4 albums before the latest. Gold for her latest but it hasn't been out a full year yet, it's probably not done selling.

Jason Aldean --his first three albums went platinum, his 4th (My Kinda Party) triple platinum, his 5th (Night Train) double platinum, his new one platinum but it's only been out 7 months, I'm sure it's still selling...and he did win male vocalist

FGL - first album went double platinum...second (latest) album was released last October and is gold (500,000). I'm sure it's still selling but it's not a good sign when your not building on a second release. The whole sophomore curse thing.

Garth was the other one up for ETOY and his album was released in November of last year. He has a platinum certification but wiki shows his sales at 606,000. That can happen when they're expecting huge sales and ship a lot of units right out of the gate. The certifications are number of albums shipped. Sales are the actual number of albums sold.

[miranda3]

I saw that Miranda won a bunch of awards. I personally think she is highly overrated these days. The song she does in her Dodge Ram commercial is far better and far more country than any of her radio singles have been in a LONG time.

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I agree.

If Miranda would record an album like this song, I'd be really happy.

Isn't it interesting that the folks selling Dodge Ram trucks still believe they'll sell trucks with neo-trad country music and values. You notice they didn't ask Miranda to do a commercial for them in the style of Little Red Wagon.

I'm wondering if having the ACM's in Texas will happen again. As Ronnie Dunn sings on his latest album, "They Still Play Country Music in Texas".

There's always the pull and tug of a thousand different influences in country music and it seems more and more that Nashville is embracing metropolitan music. Somehow though they seem to have forgotten that, in Texas, new trad country thrives in some of the biggest cities/metropolitan areas in the country. The Dallas/Fort Worth metro area has a population of just under 7 million. The Houston metro area has a population of roughly 6.5 million. The Austin metro area comes in at just under 2 million. Compare that to Nashville with a metropolitan area of 1.8 million.

Obviously Texas is a large state with many diverse populations. In comes in second in total population with 25.1 million people.

Compare that to a million or two million that the top sellers in mainstream country music are selling these days....with the direction they've gone.

There's still money to be made in neo-Trad country. Dodge Ram knows there's a market. Texas has markets for it.

Nashville may well stay metropolitan but there's the different kind of metropolitan where everything doesn't have to be all mixed together in one artist. There's the appreciation of many different artists following different cultural paths. That's the blending we have here in Houston. Everybody gets to be themselves. There's some natural blending but not the forced blending that we're seeing out of Nashville.

JMHO, of course.

[miranda3]

Little Red Wagon is just about the worst song I've heard in a long time. I don't know what happened, but as long as she is making crap music like that I will not be buying any albums from her. Saw where she was defending "bro country" a few weeks ago, I guess because Blake falls into that category now. To each their own, I guess. I'm 30 years old and I don't think it is any fun.

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LRW is terrible. Seems like youtube puts a commercial up for it every third time I go to watch a video. If you have to promote it that heavily, it's not pulling on it's own merits.

Can't say I'm a fan of homey swagger in it's natural setting but when it's adopted for "cross" appeal, it's just completely phony. Unless, of course, Miranda has really decided to adopt swagger.

I'm not sure Nashville gets the difference between swagger and pride. To borrow from Eddie and TRoy, it's the difference between Tattoos and Scars.

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This isn't a word I use but it's part of the urban culture we live in. Son grew up hearing it from the black kids in school. It was their term for the white kids who adopted swagger and tried to act black.

Wigger (or "wigga")[1] is a slang term for a white person who emulates mannerisms, language, and fashions associated with African-American culture, particularly hip hop, and in Britain, the grime scene.[2] The term is a portmanteau of white and nigger.

The term may be considered derogatory, reflecting stereotypes of African-American, black British and white culture (when used as synonym of white trash). The wannabe connotation may be used pejoratively, implying a failed attempt at cultural appropriation by a white subject. It is also sometimes used in a racist manner, not only belittling the person perceived as "acting black", but also demeaning black people and culture, by proxy.

...there's more on the wiki page for it but you get the idea.

[kora]

I taped and later watched the awards show. 3-1/2 hours and I FF so much I probably watched thirty minutes, if that much. It was what I expected--Jason Aldean, Miranda Lambert, Luke Bryan, Lady A, The Band Perry, etc., and some newbies. I'm not into them, and the newbies didn't impress, either. IMO, the loud, background music of today's country drowns out the voices, and if you can hear them, they are nondescript. The music has a similar pattern that must come out of Nashville, some with more pop or rap than others. They stick in a few licks on a country instrument and call it country. Oh, well.

I did enjoy seeing some of the older country singers. I have always been a Dwight Yoakam fan, but not a Randy Travis fan. It was, sad, though, to see him looking like there's something wrong with him.

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I wasn't sure Randy would still be with us. I'm sure glad he is.

[lauriej]

I made good use of my FF button on the remote.....

[lauriej]

Speaking of overproduction and background noise - Carrie Underwood, for me, has so much overproduced bad music drowning out a truly great voice. This is what she really sounds like, all stripped down. The song is way older than you and me put together and is a classic. Like it or not, she totally nails it!

link

Grammy's, 2007

[kora]

laurie - Very nice. You can hear her and the music doesn't drown her out. LOL!

Here's Ray Price with the same song.

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...and Patsy Cline singing it.