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Thank goodness JESSICA’s record fell off Billboard’s top 50 Country Albums Chart!!! Sony BMG… what were you thinking???Hopefully this terrible album will be enough to send her packing back to Hollywood.However, our spies caught up with her honky-tonkin’ at The Stage on Broadway last night in Nashville.Judging from her face in this picture, perhaps country music and tonkin’ isn’t much her thing.
Our spies confirmed that as of about 30 mins. ago (8/18/08 - 10:50pm) JESSICA SIMPSON, KID ROCK, and band members for the rock group HINDER are hangin’ out upstairs in a reserved section at The Stage On Broadway, in Nashville. The entourage walked in right through the front door. Our spies are working on getting pictures. Stay tuned….
Almost President and Nashville resident AL GORE and his Global Warming Alliance got a little too excited when they were able to unite fuck ‘tard Rev. AL SHARPTON with conservative and sometimes nutty Rev. PAT ROBERTSON for a TV commercial. They also boasted of uniting House Speaker NANCY PELOSI with former House Speaker NEWT GINGRICH for a global warming TV commercial.
However, based on TOBY KEITH’s Q&A with San Jose, California’s The Mercury News, it will be a cold day in hell before the DIXIE CHICKS and he will be doing a similar TV commercial.
The best part of the Q&A was when TOBY was asked about who he would vote for in the upcoming presidential election. He responded by saying “…people need to go educate themselves and not listen to moron celebrities.”
His good music, common sense, down to earth appeal is probably why he was recently named Forbres Magazine’s #1 Top Earning Country Music artist. Except for an occasional Bush-bashing rant, we haven’t heard from the DIXIE CHICKS since they won some Grammy Awards for “Not Ready To Make Nice”.
TOBY, enjoy that $48 million. DIXIE CHICKS, I guess y’all still Not Ready To Make Nice.
Like the story before this, I didn’t want to write this story because I am actually lending credibility to the fantasy that NBC’s Nashville Star is a nationwide talent contest instead of a shameful reality show. Previous seasons, while sometimes pained, at least attempted to pretend they were a talent competition.
There is simply no conceivable way anybody with just a little music savvy can believe that this season’s contestants are in any way representative of the unsigned country music talent “out there.” NBC has successfully managed to morph this former talent show into a low-rent reality show. Before you send me any nasty emails, please understand I believe that the final contestants are all perfectly fine singers. However, they simply and undeniably are NOT the best of the best of the unsigned country music artists out there. I hope this will be one of the last stories I have to write about a stupid reality show.
This is a story I didn’t want to write because I am actually writing about JESSICA SIMPSON on a country music web site.My country music sensibilities still can’t bring myself to fully comprehend that JESSICA and her record label are attempting a move her into country music.I feel like I am being forced into writing this story because some of our readers were insisting to know why I wasn’t reporting that JESSICA was booed for her performance at Country Thunder over the weekend (CLICK HERE to read what the local paper reported).Come on every one, please tell me you aren’t surprised.
This is a prime example of the big record companies, Columbia Nashville/SonyBMG in JESSICA’s case, are trying to shove their misjudgments of what country music is down our throats.Don’t hate on JESSICA, it’s the fucked up system that is the blame. I feel sorry for her. How is it that they (SonyBMG and her management) thought they would put her in some daisy dukes, boots, show-off her big boobs and show up at a premier country music festival in a prime time lineup and that would magically make her country?Country music would have been much better served by SonyBMG taking the outrageous budget/advances JESSICA surely demands, and develop and release 10 new real country music artists.No wonder people don’t like to pay for records.FUBAR.
Our spies found JOHN RICH out honky-tonkin’ last night at Robert’s Western World (see photo above) and other honky tonks.There is nothing unusual about that.However, as of late, his arrogance seems to be at an all time high.Perhaps, he needs to stay home a few nights and get his bearings back.
Off-Air Arrogance:Last night we found JOHN with an entourage of Nashville-Star-sorts and hanger-on’s bar hopping on Broadway Ave. in Nashville.On at least two occasions last night, he was run out of tonks for trying to get an underage girl into the bars…. well after the mid-night hour.He also disrespectfully chooses to smoke cigars whenever he wants… even in non smoking tonks.We have seen him do this on many occasions.I guess he must think such “ordinary people” rules don’t apply to him.
On-Air Arrogance:As a judge he has to be critical.However he often comes across as being arrogant and condescending.For example, I was taken aback a few weeks ago on Nashville Star when he accused contestant COFFEY ANDERSON of not being “country enough” and that COFFEY’s cowboy hat doesn’t make him country.Then more shockingly he told the true Texas and small town country contestant that there was a show for pop singers called “American Idol”.What the fuck is he talking about??? Is he saying that American Idol stars CARRIE UNDERWOOD and KELLIE PICKLER are pop artists and not country artists? I was glad to see COFFEY not take JOHN’s shit and stood up for his “country credentials.”Maybe JOHN just has a guilty conscience.
The Country Music Association and ABC Television Network announced today that “The 42nd Annual CMA Awards” will air live on Wednesday, Nov. 12 the Sommet Center in Nashville, Tenn. The CMA Awards nominees and winners are determined by the 6,000 industry professional members of CMA. The organization, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year., was the first trade organization formed to promote an individual genre of music in 1958.
The special will be shot in high definition and broadcast in 720 Progressive (720P), ABC’s selected HDTV format, with 5.1 channel surround sound.
Check out SUGARLANDS’s newest music video “All I Want To Do”. SUGARLAND will be releasing their follow up album later this month. First, on 7/22 they will release a 17 song “Deluxe Fan Edition” and then later on 7/29 they will release the “poor white trash edition” with just 12 songs. While we are making fun of them, we applaud their label and them for some creative marketing innovation. We can’t help but to like them and their perfect summer country song/video “All I Want To Do”.
This video and song are so terrible it made our eyes and ears bleed. Admittedly she is hot to look at, but there has been some sort of terrible misjudgment on her part. If anyone goes out and buys this one, that is proof we are not in a recession. Yikes.
Anyone who reads our site knows we have lost all objectivity when it comes to reporting on JAMEY JOHNSON. In our very first story, we pronounced him “The Mayor of Country Music”. Check out JAMEY’s video for “In Color” and you will know why he is the shit! All to often we hear that there are no “real” or “traditional” country music artists out there.
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