More ACM Awards Predictions

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The show will open with a stunningly bad performance by a major star. Someone will try to blame it on 'sound issues.' (How is it that Martina McBride never has any of these? Oh, right... because she can sing, like, for real.) There will be a Strait quip within the first two minutes of Reba's opening monologue. Awards will be presented by actors from fledgling CBS shows, none of whom I'll recognize. One of said actors will wear a cowboy hat to bolster his country credibility. Jimmy … [Read more...]

ACM Awards 2010: Predictions

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ENTERTAINER OF THE YEAR Kenny Chesney Toby Keith Brad Paisley George Strait Taylor Swift Carrie Underwood Keith Urban Zac Brown Band Reasoning: It's partially fan-voted. TOP MALE VOCALIST OF THE YEAR Kenny Chesney Brad Paisley Darius Rucker George Strait Keith Urban Reasoning: Won it last year, has released a critically-lauded album and toured continuously since then. Safest choice, though I wouldn't count Rucker out either. TOP FEMALE VOCALIST OF THE YEAR Miranda … [Read more...]

Improving the ACM Awards

What's the #1 thing the ACM could have done to improve last night's awards show? It can be something they should have included, something they should have left out, or something they should have handled differently. Pointing out that most of the show sucked doesn't count as a response. Let's try to be constructive here. My first thought was to get rid of fan voting, but I'm honestly not sure that the results would have been much better if the voting had all been done by industry folks, so I … [Read more...]

2009 ACM Awards Live Blog: Pacific Edition

6:49 PM: Just over an hour to showtime. Is this thing on? 6:56 PM: I'm trying out ScribbleLive, which will hopefully make this a bit easier than last time. 7:00 PM: The post should update without you having to continually reload the page. 7:16 PM: I'm so not following the rules on how to throw an ACM party: www.cmt.com 7:51 PM: Less than 10 minutes to showtime. 7:53 PM: Which performances are you looking forward to? Johnson and Lambert are tops for me. Should be interesting to see Heidi … [Read more...]

2009 ACM Awards Nominees + Predictions

Here's the nominee list. It's available everywhere, but I post it here too so that those participating in the live blog can refer to it without happening upon any spoilers once the show is underway on the East Coast. I'll be going on lockdown at 5pm, not checking any of my blogging neighbors (or Twitter, etc.) until the show's over. Important: There has been some confusion as to the time of the show. Since CBS and the ACM list 8pm as the official start time, I'm assuming that that's when the … [Read more...]