And the Live 8 audience couldn't care less....
Thankfully CMT has a best of Live8 hour long special because none of the country acts got decent airtime on the actual Live8 MTV/ABC recap thing.
Several thoughts -- why did Faith Hill think the Italian audience she performed for would understand her current hit saga of a Mississippi Girl -- and I'm sure they loved the lyrics which address the listener as "y'all".
Tim McGraw's shirt was a horror -- what was his stylist thinking? And his song Live Like You Were Dying seemed odd when the cause was to bring notice to poverty striken Africa. Yes, we're all thinking of those poor people in Africa who should just ride bulls and go ski diving to get their minds off of their situation. Ignoring the fact that they really do live like they are dying because they are dying.
Keith Urban-- kudos for the homemade anti-poverty shirt. And credit to him for doing a ballad -- a brave choice to do it before a crowd there to party and who mostly have no idea who he is. Personally, I'm not a fan of Mr. Urban, but of all the country artists performing he came out on top.
The other Keith -- Toby Keith -- strangely sang songs off his previous album. I'm sure he decided these were his most rocking songs to win over the audience that was not there for country music. But everytime the camera panned over the crowd you could tell they could careless. Toby just looked liked a pissed off guy wearing (oddly) a trucker hat advertising a golf club. And of course his guitar has a Ford logo -- free global advertising for Ford. Toby's a good company man.
Definitely catch the CMT best of live 8 if you want to see the country hotshots bomb in front of non-country fans!
Several thoughts -- why did Faith Hill think the Italian audience she performed for would understand her current hit saga of a Mississippi Girl -- and I'm sure they loved the lyrics which address the listener as "y'all".
Tim McGraw's shirt was a horror -- what was his stylist thinking? And his song Live Like You Were Dying seemed odd when the cause was to bring notice to poverty striken Africa. Yes, we're all thinking of those poor people in Africa who should just ride bulls and go ski diving to get their minds off of their situation. Ignoring the fact that they really do live like they are dying because they are dying.
Keith Urban-- kudos for the homemade anti-poverty shirt. And credit to him for doing a ballad -- a brave choice to do it before a crowd there to party and who mostly have no idea who he is. Personally, I'm not a fan of Mr. Urban, but of all the country artists performing he came out on top.
The other Keith -- Toby Keith -- strangely sang songs off his previous album. I'm sure he decided these were his most rocking songs to win over the audience that was not there for country music. But everytime the camera panned over the crowd you could tell they could careless. Toby just looked liked a pissed off guy wearing (oddly) a trucker hat advertising a golf club. And of course his guitar has a Ford logo -- free global advertising for Ford. Toby's a good company man.
Definitely catch the CMT best of live 8 if you want to see the country hotshots bomb in front of non-country fans!
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