This year's Country Music Award nominees were announced on Tuesday, and, if a person were to judge the state of country music from the list — dominated by the likes of Kacey Musgraves, Miranda Lambert, and Taylor Swift — they'd probably think that maybe these women were getting country stations to play their damn…
She's 24. She's low-key. She's from Sulphur Springs, Texas. She used to yodel. She sings about regular women and their regular concerns and feelings, and yet, in its own quiet, catchy way, something about her work feels utterly revolutionary. Maybe it's that the songs on Same Trailer Different Park feel notably…
From the mind of Toby Keith comes "Red Solo Cup," a tune that is sure to be the most popular music single about plastic cups this year! It's pretty much exactly what you would expect an homage to an inanimate party object to be, but be warned: This song is incredibly infectious and after watching, you just may have it…
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Last night, LeAnn Rimes and boyfriend Eddie Cibrian sat down for their first interview—with ABC's Robin Roberts—since their scandalous affair made tabloid headlines. More interesting, though, was Rimes' admission that she crumbled under the pressure of child stardom.
"On the outside, I look fragile/But on the inside is something you can't touch...CUZ I'M COUNTRY STRONG!" Oh, you know you wanna hear this one.
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Colt Ford's music has nothing to do with the undead; the Twilight theme in this video must be a marketing ploy — though Edward should compare his love for Bella to "chicken and biscuits." Click to watch. [Buzzfeed]
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Jimmy Dean, sausage baron, country music legend, television host and actor, has died at 81. Says his widow Donna, "He was amazing...He had a lot of talents." [CBS]
On the Today show this morning, country music star Chely Wright — who recently admitted that she's gay — talked about when she hit "rock bottom" and had a gun in her mouth.
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When Richell Rene "Chely" Wright announced — via People magazine's much-hyped Cinco de Gayo issue — that she is a gay American, you may have asked, "who?" Here's what you need to know:
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[Indio, April 25. Image via Getty]
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[Indio, April 25. Image via Getty]
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According to Brian Cherry, "the left is losing the pop culture media war in this country." But they have a nefarious plan! And that plan, ladies and gentlemen, is Miley Cyrus.
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"Tammy Wynette, she was a beautician back home, kept her license up to date...I used to beg her, ‘Can I have your card number so I can go buy stuff at the beauty-supply houses?'" [NewYorker]
