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Post by Deleted on Dec 2, 2013 19:46:41 GMT -5
So does anyone know exactly how labels promote their songs to get played on radio? I think someone in the industry would have a good answer for this (but I don't know that anyone would give a truthful, straightforward answer). I'm nothing but a casual observer, but here's what I would say: Most labels bring all their new artists out on a big radio tour, stopping by most of the important stations. The artists will play music in a bid to impress the radio folks. Sara, however, is not a new artist. She's been around for quite some time now, and these bigger and already-established artists don't really go on radio tours. They still swing by stations from time to time, or invite radio people out to their concerts. Anyway, labels have several people that promote a song. These people are regional promotion reps. From what I can tell, there is usually someone for the Northeast, Midwest, Northwest, Southwest, and maybe a couple people for the South/Southeast part of the country. These promo reps are responsible for making sure that the stations in their area are aware of the songs they are trying to promote. They are responsible for fostering good relationships with the radio people. It's probably a lot of phone/email/social media type stuff. In the end, it's all about who/what radio likes more. Lately I've had more of a pessimistic view of the label/artist/radio relationship. It seems to me that they present it as this big, family-friendly type relationship where everybody (those in the country industry, including radio people, labels, and artists) likes everyone else, but it comes across more as brown-nosing to me. It doesn't seem to be about the music or the art anymore. I know that radio is a business and it's always been that way, but lately it just seems to be more and more of a competition of which label(s) can butter up the people at radio the most. It's a big, competitive game, and there are certain labels that have more momentum because they've figured out how to play the game (appease the radio people) better than others have. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 9, 2013 14:24:19 GMT -5
Does this song have any chance at becoming a hit, what's it doing right now.
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Post by .indulgecountry on Dec 9, 2013 15:15:22 GMT -5
Does this song have any chance at becoming a hit, what's it doing right now. It's get good feedback and selling decently for its position on the charts, but its airplay has slowed down. That said, things are moving forward with the album release date being announced for March 4, 2014, so I'm sure RCA will be working on getting this up and running again soon. Her chart runs always seem to be a little longer, but I think this can blow up and be a big hit yet (the GP seems to like it a lot, so if it gets even more radio exposure, I could see it taking off). |
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Post by Hunter on Dec 10, 2013 11:55:53 GMT -5
New press release surrounding details of the new album, "Slow Me Down"! I can't wait to hear her cover of Not Over You and her duet with The Fray's leading man! I also am really excited for this album, probably more so than any of her previous releases. It seems to me that she's taken a lot more risks with this one in terms of vocals AND music! |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 11, 2013 14:03:28 GMT -5
Considering his avatar is from the video, I think he beat you by quite a bit, lol ;) |
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Post by .indulgecountry on Dec 11, 2013 15:53:36 GMT -5
Considering his avatar is from the video, I think he beat you by quite a bit, lol ;) That, and the video actually premiered way back on October 23rd, lol. |
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Post by .indulgecountry on Dec 19, 2013 17:03:09 GMT -5
Billboard's 10 Best Country Singles of 2013 includes "Slow Me Down" in the #9 spot! For her return to the airwaves, Evans came up with a pop-ish ballad that leaned toward the dramatic, reminding one of the great cross-over material of Barbara Mandrell or Dolly Parton from the 1980s. In the middle of the arrangement however, you get a vocal performance from Evans that proves that Missouri twang is still there in abundance.www.billboard.com/articles/list/5847693/10-best-country-singles-of-2013-top-songs
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Post by robrt30 on Jan 3, 2014 20:36:32 GMT -5
^I hope you're right, but being a woman in country music is near-career suicide (which is why I'm stunned Casadee Pope actually went this route). And being a woman in your 40s in country music, that closes the window - which wasn't open much to begin with - about 99.8% shut.
Yeah I know Reba has a hit here and there, but she's the exception. Kenny Chesney, Keith Urban, Brad Paisley, etc, are all reliable hitmakers. There's no reason the likes of Sara Evans, Lee Ann Womack, etc, shouldn't be in there too. And I think their age is the main reason. Country accepts older male, it doesn't accept older female.
Fortunately for me, my local country station (mostly) doesn't follow the charts. If its not playing a hit, it will definitely add it by the time it goes top 10. But it also plays a lot of songs that struggle to get out of the 30s and 40s. It's had Slow Me Down in healthy rotation for a long time now - and I do think this song is very good. Unfortunately said station isn't BDS monitored so it does no good for Sara on
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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2014 16:50:22 GMT -5
SMD is having a pretty tough time on the charts. I think it still has time to rebound, though, as I always saw it as a slow-climber. There are 2 months until the album release (I moved the album-related posts into the albums thread), but this one really needs to get going if it's gonna be top 20 (or close to it) by the street date for the album. This one needs to triple its Billboard audience to crack the top 20.
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Post by bboat11 on Feb 2, 2014 17:38:23 GMT -5
I finally heard this on my radio for the first time last night as I was falling asleep! I'm kicking myself because it happened in one of those periods where you just start to fall asleep, and then as soon as you realize it your mind wakes up again... My mind woke back up just in time to hear the last couple "Slow me down"s at the end  But still, it means they played it! I really hope this might be a sign that they are going to start playing it more regularly, now that some older songs are leaving the chart and this one is pushing Top 30. My station seems to only play songs that they are going to be playing on a somewhat regular schedule, with a few recurrents that they play to death on the side. I've heard "Wasting All These Tears" every night for the last couple months at some point during the hour in which I heard Sara last night; maybe some of those spins are going to go to Sara now? Who knows! |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2014 21:46:12 GMT -5
This one had a phenomenal week on Billboard last week, gaining 1.7 million and jumping 34-29. The number of recurrents allowed for the big position jump, but the fact that SMD generated a 1.7 million gain would've been good enough even if it had only managed a 1 spot jump, considering that over the past 3 weeks combined, this song actually lost 147k on Billboard. It's been at a standstill since early December, and basically just crawling along during its entire chart run, before suddenly gaining 1.7 million out of the blue. It's been on Billboard for 23 weeks already but it hadn't even reached 4.5 million total at the start of last week, and now it's lurched up to nearly 6.2 million total.
Let's see if she can sustain the momentum. I would not be surprised if the album gets pushed back a little more, as I imagine RCA wants to have this as high up the charts as possible. SMD is up nearly another 500k on Mediabase in the last 2 days alone.
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Post by .indulgecountry on Feb 5, 2014 22:41:15 GMT -5
I just *knew* this would eventually catch on, and I feel like this is a nice sign that could finally be happening. It's still got a long ways to go and it remains to be seen if that second wind keeps up of course, but I definitely feel like this single has been quite hyped and well-received by fans and radio from the start, so it'd be nice to have the airplay start to reflect that. I'm glad that this had a nice week and was able to move up so many positions.
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Post by bigfan101 on Feb 6, 2014 11:26:24 GMT -5
As sad as this may be, I think it might be because Cassadee Pope fell off. There is just two songs in the top 30 right now done by solo female artists (this and Danielle Bradbery). With the big three females (Carrie, Taylor, Miranda), mostly taking time off (Miranda's song debuted today) they have to play some other females and Sara's song is just lucky that it was there at the right time to replace the female plays that Cassadee is giving up.
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Post by .indulgecountry on Feb 6, 2014 21:01:07 GMT -5
As sad as this may be, I think it might be because Cassadee Pope fell off. There is just two songs in the top 30 right now done by solo female artists (this and Danielle Bradbery). With the big three females (Carrie, Taylor, Miranda), mostly taking time off (Miranda's song debuted today) they have to play some other females and Sara's song is just lucky that it was there at the right time to replace the female plays that Cassadee is giving up. Part of me feels like this is a valid point, but an equal part of me thinks it's a bit silly to imagine radio suddenly jumped on this because they need more female country artists to play. Country radio seems to have no problem giving women the shaft, so I'm not sure why they'd do that. That said, if that has any truth to it and it'll translate to the Sara Evans song powering up the charts, I won't be opposed. |
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I actually think there's some credence to the 'theory' spelled out by bigfan101. I can't think of any specific cases off the top of my head right now, but I know 43dudleyvillas has referenced similar situations before as well. Country radio seems unwilling to support more than 2 females in the overall top 10 at any given time, and in the current situation they might feel like the Lady A and Thompson Square tunes, plus Cassadee's just-peaked song, were enough to fill up the female quota in the top 10. Danielle Bradbery has also had a decent chart run--that one has been out a while, but it's done pretty well, thanks in large part to the aggressive diligence of Big Machine. And that one is also inside the top 15 now and closing in on a top 10 peak. In the case of "Slow Me Down", a song that's been on the chart for 23 weeks now, it did strike me as very odd that this song would suddenly lurch up 1.7 million the very week after Cassadee Pope fell off the chart. Another thing to consider is that Miranda's single release has obviously been planned out for many weeks now, and both she and Sara are RCA label-mates so perhaps the label went into overtime mode to get "Slow Me Down" up the chart a bit more as "Automatic" would obviously be coming along and building airplay very quickly (and they wanted Sara to have some more airplay before that would happen). But back to the potential Cassadee-affecting-Sara thing...if country radio was indeed scanning up and down the charts for another female song to jump on a bit more, Sara's was the logical choice. It's been out for a while, she's a recognizable name, RCA has obviously been working this fairly hard despite its minuscule gains. The only other choices for female-led songs were basically LBT's "Sober", Sheryl Crow's "Callin' Me When I'm Lonely", and Leah Turner's "Take The Keys". And of course there are new tunes out by Kelleigh Bannen, Maggie Rose, Katie Armiger, Lucy Hale, Natalie Stovall, and Jennifer Nettles, but all of those songs are just now impacting and trying to make their way onto the charts. So, out of a choice of LBT, Sara, Sheryl, or Leah, Sara made the most sense because again, she's a very recognizable name and voice, and "Slow Me Down" is her lead single. LBT, on the other hand, are on the back-end of their album cycle, and Leah Turner is brand new. Finally, country radio hasn't quite completely warmed up to Sheryl Crow just yet, even though "Callin' Me When I'm Lonely" is a very solid song that balances the traditional and contemporary sounds just perfectly. There probably isn't a way to prove it, but I have noticed some other odd situations before, in which a female-led song will start to fall and suddenly another one starts gaining much more at the same time. I don't think this case is quite as clear-cut as some previous cases that have led to this theory, but again, I can't recall any specific examples at the moment. |
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Post by bboat11 on Feb 9, 2014 17:05:46 GMT -5
So this morning, I heard Cassadee Pope, directly followed by Sara. I hope nobody at the radio station got in trouble for playing two women so close together Haha but anyway, it was on Kix Brooks' countdown show. He played Cassadee's "Wasting All These Tears", and then Sara's "A Little Bit Stronger" as a random song in between countdown songs. He introduced her new album however, and said her brand new song "Slow Me Down" would be on the countdown show very soon! I thought that was cool, even if I didn't get to hear this song. |
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Post by sabre14 on Feb 9, 2014 17:32:43 GMT -5
So this morning, I heard Cassadee Pope, directly followed by Sara. I hope nobody at the radio station got in trouble for playing two women so close together  Haha but anyway, it was on Kix Brooks' countdown show. He played Cassadee's "Wasting All These Tears", and then Sara's "A Little Bit Stronger" as a random song in between countdown songs. He introduced her new album however, and said her brand new song "Slow Me Down" would be on the countdown show very soon! I thought that was cool, even if I didn't get to hear this song. I guess Kix hasn't switched back to a top 40 then? To be honest I haven't listened to his horrid countdown in quite a few weeks so I don't know for sure. As for him playing extra songs, he does that all the time!!! It always seemed like it took him an hour just to countdown three songs, and I don't think I'm that far off saying that. I'm usually not available in the morning hours so I frequently miss Kingsley's countdown. The Kix one is on at 8 P.M, but I can't stand listening to it. "Slow Me Down" has rebounded the past two weeks or so and I'm very happy that Sara has been making a little headway here. Perhaps "Slow Me Down" can climb fast enough to crack the top 10 but top 20 is still my prediction and hopefully RCA can put their effort into hard drive for this tune. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 9, 2014 18:12:28 GMT -5
I guess Kix hasn't switched back to a top 40 then? To be honest I haven't listened to his horrid countdown in quite a few weeks so I don't know for sure. I can't say for sure because I don't listen to the show, but the ACC website went back to top 40 several months ago already and each week they show the MB top 40 online. But again I don't actually listen to it. I just assumed they were playing the top 40 again...it would seem rather weird for the website to list the top 40 but have the actual show on the radio to only play the top 30. |
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Post by sapphire on Feb 9, 2014 18:50:15 GMT -5
I guess Kix hasn't switched back to a top 40 then? To be honest I haven't listened to his horrid countdown in quite a few weeks so I don't know for sure. I can't say for sure because I don't listen to the show, but the ACC website went back to top 40 several months ago already and each week they show the MB top 40 online. But again I don't actually listen to it. I just assumed they were playing the top 40 again... it would seem rather weird for the website to list the top 40 but have the actual show on the radio to only play the top 30.It is really weird, but they actually do that. lol. They only play Top 30 but lists the Top 40 on their website, the last time I checked. I don't listen to it that much I think my last would be 3 months ago. |
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Post by kw9461 on Feb 9, 2014 21:03:40 GMT -5
I can't say for sure because I don't listen to the show, but the ACC website went back to top 40 several months ago already and each week they show the MB top 40 online. But again I don't actually listen to it. I just assumed they were playing the top 40 again... it would seem rather weird for the website to list the top 40 but have the actual show on the radio to only play the top 30.It is really weird, but they actually do that. lol. They only play Top 30 but lists the Top 40 on their website, the last time I checked. I don't listen to it that much I think my last would be 3 months ago. If i remember correctly, they produce both a top 30 and a top 40 version of ACC and affiliates can choose which version to air. The top 40 version is an hour longer (5 hours instead of 4), so I imagine most stations only air the top 30 version. |
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Post by rsmatto on Feb 10, 2014 12:58:11 GMT -5
It's up to #28 on the Country Airplay chart this week. Really surprised (a happy surprise as I'm friends with a songwriter of the track) it held out.
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Post by someguy on Mar 3, 2014 22:04:05 GMT -5
Interesting article about this song and its chart run in tonight's (March 3rd) BCU: Sara Evans Stays Afloat On ‘Slow’ Boat
When Sara Evans launched into her current single, “Slow Me Down,” in front of several hundred radio programmers and industry decision makers aboard the General Jackson showboat during Country Radio Seminar in February, she encountered an unexpected glitch. Wires were patched into the wrong jacks in the sound monitors, and the band couldn’t hear. She brought “Slow Me Down” to an abrupt halt, then restarted with an obvious intensity. During the ensuing three minutes, her body language suggested a noticeable transformation as she shifted from a grim ferocity to a buoyant gratitude. “We wanted to go out there and be perfect,” she says the next afternoon during lunch at The Southern. “So I think it actually made our performance stronger, because we were more determined.” Evans’ determination is being tested with “Slow Me Down.” She wrote one of country’s strongest résumés during much of the last decade, notching eight top singles on Hot Country Songs between -, including No. 1 singles with “No Place That Far,” “Born to Fly,” “Suds in the Bucket” and “A Real Fine Place to Start.” Following a rough personal patch that included a much-publicized divorce, remarriage and relocation to Birmingham, Ala., she returned to the top four years later with “A Little Big Stronger.” It required 33 weeks to reach No. 1, and it stayed there for two weeks. “Slow Me Down” is grinding it out slowly, too—it’s currently No.27 after 27 weeks on Country Airplay—which put a whole lot more pressure on Evans that night. “The boat show is always one of the most nerve-wracking things,” she maintains. “More so than performing on awards shows, because hit singles are everything. Radio is everything. And the hit single is what fuels every aspect of your career. When you don’t have hit singles, you don’t have a career—or not the career that you desire.” The song seems to have been caught in the “bro-country” trap. Only two solo females outpace Evans on the current chart—Danielle Bradbery, at No. 14 ; and Miranda Lambert, at No.22 —and it’s tough to blame it on the song itself. Evans is in fine voice; the “hurry up and slow me down” hook is the kind of lyric that typically plays well in the country genre; and a plucky, neo-string keyboard, supplied by Charlie Judge, gives it a unique identity in the current sonic landscape. “Slow Me Down” is testing better with the audience than its Country Airplay chart position might suggest. Bullseye Marketing Research has it at No. 12 on its Radiofeedback chart, which measures the response of country radio’s most avid listeners. It’s particularly strong with males 2554-, who rank it No. 5 among current titles. “The single fits in the mix extremely well,” notes Bullseye founder John Hart. “When I hear her on the radio, the production on that song and her vocals are a great fit with the sonics of today’s radio.” The song appeared in the middle of Evans’ work on a new album, due March 11.It became a thematic center for the project, now named Slow Me Down. The staccato synth lines reappear on the album’s “You Never Know,” emerging as a secondary aural theme, while many of the other tracks—including “Put My Heart Down,” “If I Run” and “Better Off”—embrace the same sort of relationship crossroads that’s documented in the title song. “I definitely like drama, and I love sad songs, and I love to be the person who’s the victim in the song,” notes Evans. “I’ve always said I hate strong- woman songs. Even on ‘A Little Bit Stronger,’ she’s not saying, ‘Screw you’ and ‘I’ve burned your clothes’ and all that. She’s just saying, ‘Little by little, getting there.’ And I love that.” In an ironic twist, there was little drama involved in the process of making Slow Me Down. She had to leave her blended family—husband Jay Barker and seven kids—behind in Birmingham while she commuted to record the songs. But the Evans who showed up to work with producer Mark Bright £Carrie Underwood, Rascal Flatts¤ was much different than the version of Evans that Bright encountered nine years prior during the sessions for Real Fine Place, the last studio album released before her divorce proceedings. “The truth is, she just wasn’t as present last time,” says Bright. “But now, she’s been singing a lot, she’s in a much better emotional state, and all of a sudden you hear this great voice again.” And it’s a slightly different voice. Evans has traditionally sung with little or no vibrato, but she acknowledges that she allowed it to become more prominent in the new recordings, particularly on “If I Run,” a song she had writtenwith the intent to pitch to Beyonce, whose vibrato is rather exaggerated. Evans also pitched the album higher than she has in the past, giving the songs an emotional edge. "When I would pick keys early on in my career, I guess I would just kind of go safe,” notes Evans. “Now I’m like really pushing myself. And there are a couple songs that I had to literally take a break after I would do the chorus. Like, ‘I’m going to die. If I have to sing this in any live show, I’m going to die.’” Also notable in Slow Me Down are guest vocals by three different males who ably assist in representing her stylistic breadth. Vince Gill, who sang harmonies on “No Place That Far” in 1998, returns for “Better Off,” a fiddle-founded, ultra-country track. Gavin DeGraw provides a gritty counter-balance on her remake of his single “Not Over You,” and The Fray’s Isaac Slade adds a desperate texture to “Can’t Stop Loving You.” “They earmark where she comes from musically in a really delightful way,” observes Bright. “I was a little worried, just on my own, that that’s a lot of male singers. And then you look at it from what we have song to song, and how it works on the album is, to me, fantastic.” The wide stylistic swath that Evans embraces on the album is, in some ways, a distillation of the variety she often sensed on country radio. “I have always felt like country music is a genre that can hold a little bit of a lot—like bluegrass, old traditional country, and then pop stuff,” she says. “It’s always been this genre where you can kind of get whatever you want, or whatever you need.” So it’s a bit ironic that Slow Me Down arrives in the midst of a period in which country airwaves are out of balance. Males are dominating playlists in greater numbers than is typical—and particularly in greater numbers than when Evans first came to prominence in the late 90s. “When I started, it was a phase of women,” she says. “I came about five years after Faith Hill¨, Martina McBride¨ and Shania Twain¨. It was Dixie Chicks, it was Sara Evans, it was Lee Ann Womack, LeAnn Rimes, Trisha Yearwood.” Memories of that period add to the pressure Evans feels with Slow Me Down. The success of the single—and of the album—isn’t just about her anymore. It’s about re-establishing female singers in a genre whose audience leans toward women. “There are so many talented females. So many. And just incredible voices,” says Evans. “There has to be room for more women. There has to be.” www1.billboard.biz/bbbiz/photos/pdf/2013/country_update_0303.pdf |
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Post by .indulgecountry on Mar 7, 2014 0:14:03 GMT -5
This debuts at #108 on the Billboard Hot 100's "Bubbling Under" extension, and moves up to #28 on the HCS chart (so it's neck-and-neck with its current #27 airplay chart position). Sales and airplay for this both seem to be growing, so I'm hoping this single can catch fire soon.
I'd love to see her land a performance slot on the ACMs this year. It would be great promo for this song and it would just be nice to see her get the chance to perform it, especially with several of the go-to female performers unlikely to perform (neither Taylor or Carrie have singles to promote this time around). She was able to get on the ACMs in 2011 for "A Little Bit Stronger" and again in 2012 for "My Heart Can't Tell You No," so I'd like to think it's possible.
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Post by austin on Mar 8, 2014 13:00:33 GMT -5
I'd love to see her land a performance slot on the ACMs this year. It would be great promo for this song and it would just be nice to see her get the chance to perform it, especially with several of the go-to female performers unlikely to perform (neither Taylor or Carrie have singles to promote this time around). She was able to get on the ACMs in 2011 for "A Little Bit Stronger" and again in 2012 for "My Heart Can't Tell You No," so I'd like to think it's possible. I hope so, but she also was nominated for FVOTY at that show...I don't expect her to get to sing this time, but I hope she does, even if it is for single number two. |
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Post by .indulgecountry on Mar 8, 2014 20:22:19 GMT -5
^ Some great new glamour shots! I love them! The back of the CD case looks beautiful. I'd love to see her land a performance slot on the ACMs this year. It would be great promo for this song and it would just be nice to see her get the chance to perform it, especially with several of the go-to female performers unlikely to perform (neither Taylor or Carrie have singles to promote this time around). She was able to get on the ACMs in 2011 for "A Little Bit Stronger" and again in 2012 for "My Heart Can't Tell You No," so I'd like to think it's possible. I hope so, but she also was nominated for FVOTY at that show...I don't expect her to get to sing this time, but I hope she does, even if it is for single number two. She wasn't the first time she performed in 2011 at the ACMs (which was like a month before ALBS hit #1). She was nominated for FVOTY at the CMAs later that year, and then at the ACMs in 2012 (where she performed "My Heart Can't Tell You No" -- which is likely why she got that performance slot, since that single wasn't the hit its predecessor was and had already peaked a couple months before the show). Since this is her lead single and there will be less obvious female performers (no Carrie, no Taylor), I feel like it's possible, even though "Slow Me Down" hasn't performed nearly as well as "A Little Bit Stronger" had in the same time frame. So far Miranda is the only solo female confirmed to perform on the ACMs, and I imagine Kacey Musgraves will be offered a spot, but I can't see them being the only two, so maybe that'll work in Sara's favor. |
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I think Sara has a great voice, but I really dislike the Country/Pop direction she's taken.
Some artists can do that incredibly well; I never thought Sara was one of them.
IMO, songs like Saints And Angels, I Could Not Ask For More, Always Be My Baby, is where her strength lies.
With ALBS being a massive comeback hit, it puzzles me as to why she insists on gong full-on Pop, while her audience/radio seems to suggest they want more songs like ALBS and less like " Slow Me Down."
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