2009 CMA Awards: The Best & Worst Moments
Another year of CMA Awards has come and gone and Chordstrike is here to vilify and praise the worst and the best of "Country Music's Biggest Night." Without further ado...
Top 10 Worst Moments:
1. Taylor Swift's "mature" opening show performance replete with a stripper pole and black spandex (or was it leather?), not to mention, her voice was flat and off key.
2. Carrie Underwood does "Cowboy Casanova" looking strangely like Christina Aguilera circa 2003. The presence of synchronized dance steps and costumes proves yet again that the contemporary country genre is anything but Country.
3. Sugarland wins Duo of the Year and asks Brooks & Dunn if they want to come on stage to say anything. The awkward and uncomfortable look on B & D's faces was oh so palpable.
4. Sugarland performs another wannabe tear jerker song which leads this viewer to ask, "whaddu I gotta dooooo to keep from listening to youuuu?"
5. Kenny Chesney - another CMA Awards Show, another blue shirt and pair of gray pants. And he went way off key, saved only by Dave Matthews appearing on stage to rescue him from his own warbling.
6. Video screens flashing lyrics word for word during a few of the performances. Did I forget to turn off my close captioning?
7. Lady Antebellum win the Vocal Group of the Year award followed immediately by a TIAA CREF commercial that features a Lady Antebellum song. This makes for the quickest sellout story in Country Music history.
8. Brad & Carrie are interrupted by an Little Jimmy Dickens rambling about a Taylor Swift video. I know it was supposed to be a play on the Kanye thing, but it didn't come off quite right.
9. ABC's lame attempt to promote their new show "The Middle" by using the show's stars as award presenters, along with their painful attempt to link their show to the "common family" epitomized by Country Music. Yea, nice try.
10. Brooks & Dunn perform with ex-ZZ Top member making it the one and only geriatric retiree performance of the night.
Top 10 Best Moments:
1. Darius Rucker wins the New Artist of the Year award and is the first African American artist to do so, as well as his acceptance speech.
2. Carrie Underwood dissing Kanye West to the tune of "Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be Kanye."
3. Zac Brown Band's cover of "Devil Goes Down To Georgia."
4. Jamey Johnson's subtle and understated acceptance speech for Song of the Year, including the link between our grandparents and Veterans Day to "In Color."
5. On stage banter between Brad and Carrie, including the comment about "George Straight plus eight."
6. Kid Rock and Jamey Johnson perform "Somewhere Between Jennings and Jones" to thankfully feature some traditional country for the night!
7. Miranda Lambert's bass player with the white suit and mohawk. So Country Punk!
8. Lady Antebellum on-stage performance reminiscent of an old duo between Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton.
9. Darius Rucker does his version of crowd surfing during his performance. We loved those lip syncing fans that couldn't quite get the lyrics right.
10. The huge psychedelic flat screen ceiling lights hung above Keith Urban during his performance.
What did we get right or wrong?
--Lucas Hilbert
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Well, since you asked: I'm pretty sure Billy Gibbons is not an "ex-ZZ Top member" or "geriatric retiree." Sure, they're past their commercial prime, but ZZ Top is still playing together.
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Well, since you asked: I'm pretty sure Billy Gibbons is not an "ex-ZZ Top member" or "geriatric retiree." Sure, they're past their commercial prime, but ZZ Top is still playing together.
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