“My Eyes,” Blake Shelton featuring Gwen Sebastian.“Meanwhile Back At Mama’s,” Tim McGraw featuring Faith Hill.“Small Town Throwdown,” Brantley Gilbert featuring Justin Moore and Thomas Rhett.“This Is How We Roll,” Florida Georgia Line featuring Luke Bryan.“Drink To That All Night,” Jerrod Niemann.Here’s To The Good Times, Florida Georgia Line.Maybe Saving Country Music will do a live blog if I’m bored. Get and extra chuckle off the “Song of the Year” contenders. It’s all happening on December 15th at 8 PM Eastern if you want to tune in while wrapping presents to laugh your ass off. Luke Bryan, Miranda Lambert, and the FGL boys are also scheduled to spare the crowd to death with performances.
#American country countdown with kix brooks tv#
Kix Brooks was supposed to host the thing because he’s the American Country Countdown guy, but he’s all old and shit so let’s act like he doesn’t exist come TV time. Watching those flunkies up there trying to read off a teleprompter might be the best entertainment all night. Oh and get this: Aside from the Breakthrough Artist of the Year category, the winners are chosen by aggregating airplay and touring stats from Soundscan and Mediabase and such, so pretty much anyone can sit there with a calculator and figure out who the winners are going to be before the first joke from hosts Florida Georgia Line falls flat. Miranda Lambert’s Platinum is the only female Album of the Year nominee as well. And this year in typical ACA, or ACCA (is that right?) form, there are no female nominees for their Song of the Year, no female nominees for “Digital” Song of the Year (like this deserves its own category), no female nominees for Breakthrough Artist of the Year, and no female nominees for Artist of the Year (though Lady Antebellum is somehow gerrymandered in there and is 1/3rd frau). Not even one out of the ten spots they had to fill. In 2011 the show ran down the 10 greatest “Artists of the Decade” and didn’t include even one female performer. One thing that apparently won’t change from the ACA’s to the American Country Countdown Awards is their history of shafting country music’s female artists. They hope to change that all this year by bringing Dick Clark Productions in the mix-the same brain trust behind the ACM’s, or Academy of Country Music Awards, which would seem like natural competition, but what do I know? Since the ACA Awards were fabricated out of thin air by FOX to screw with the other networks who carry legitimate country awards shows with actual history, the show has featured B-level country talent, bad sound and performances, forced gratitude by award recipients, shitty hosts (aside from Kristin Chenoweth, she kicked ass in her own perky way), and a general low production-value presentation. Say hello to the “American Country Countdown Awards”-the Busch League of country music award shows, and the replacement of the now apparently defunct “American Country Awards.” Yeah, sorry all you previous ACA winners, but it looks like those trophies are being rendered even more meaningless than they were before. It feels like these annual earaches are multiplying like a pestilence in country music and the music world beyond, and now we have yet another machination of forced television pageantry to contend with. The only thing worse than a country music awards show is four of them.
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