What happened to me? CMA Awards

You've started a thread on one of my favorite topics, and I've got to toss my $.02 into the coffers.

I love Darius Rucker.
Brad Paisley is immensely talented, but my opinion of him is tainted by all the gimmicky "haha" shit he's put out that's cute for the first few times, but quickly fades. I can't imagine owning an album with "Celebrity" on it.
I can't settle on an opinion of Taylor Swift. My fiancee had her first album, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. But then she puts out shit like "Love Story" and makes awful, cliched, shitty videos like the one for "You belong with me." (To that note, I was sort of glad Kanye did what he did to detract from the fact that she actually won an award for that garbage.)

 

Yes.

And his wife is to die for.

 

I can't speak to the first part given my limited knowledge of all things Nashville, but that last part is very true.

 

Toby Keith still puts out some catchy stuff that I enjoy listening to, but he's a caricature.

I enjoyed a lot of the music that he released in the phase of his career before "How Do You Like Me Now" took him into the stratosphere, because I felt it was sincere and wasn't pandering. Then again, I'm not at all certain that he's pandering.....he may have been a caricature under wraps that whole time prior to 2000.

Brad Paisley, though.....he plays cute from time to time, but in my opinion it never detracts from the fact that he's a serious artist with genuine chops, as a singer, as a writer and as a guitarist.

 

I grew up on 60s and 70s country and my parents watched "Hee Haw" all the time. Yeah, it was a hokey show, but they had some dynamite music. Every big star of the era was on that show, and I soaked it all up.

 

Junior Samples was awesome.

 

The two types of music that seem to sell the best are rap and country. They also have very loyal fan bases.

I think there's also enough acts out there like Taylor Swift and Carrie Underwood, Shania Twain, Tim McGraw among others that have a lot of mainstream appeal.

Hell, Kellie Pickler has done so well that you could argue that she's one of the more successful American Idol contestants. Some of the people who have won the show would kill to have the success she's had.

 

Isn't Paisley married to Kimberly Williams, from Father of the Bride and According to Jim?

The Kanye spoof made national news. I thought it was hilarious. I'm just waiting for someone to claim it was racist.

 

Re: Hee Haw - My parents watched, too, much to my dismay, but I always did like Buck Owens.

 

Yes, he is married to Kimberly Williams, which means he also has a very hot sister-in-law.