From the AP, by way of Macleans...
If the Country Music Association was going to set up a special dressing room for its entertainer of the year nominees, it would do well to put in a couple of leather couches, a box of cigars, ESPN on the tube and a sign on the door proclaiming, "Men Only."
All five nominees - seven if you count Rascal Flatts as three instead of one - are men. It was the same last year - and the year before that, and the year before that. One has to go all the way back to 2001, when the Dixie Chicks were nominated, to find a woman on the list.
Like I said, I wouldn't count Rascal Flatts even if its members are technically males, 'cause what they put out is more or less music with no balls. No offense, but were those cats castrated at birth? I picked up Texas native Miranda Lambert's latest album, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, last week, and listening to it that's exactly what I was thinking -- "Miranda Lambert may be a female, but listening to this she sounds like she's got bigger balls than Rascal Flatts does." As for the mention of Carrie Underwood and Faith Hill, for some strange reason the characterization of certain other artists in the letter to Rolling Stone that was first thought to be penned by Joan Jett come to mind -- "overexposed pop princesses who have nothing to do to do with (country)," Underwood's "Before He Cheats" notwithstanding. I don't know if Miranda Lambert is Female Vocalist of the Year material yet, but she's gotten a pretty good start on making her mark as a traditional country artist. But that's just what I think...
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