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Post by Hunter on Mar 6, 2005 12:33:28 GMT -5
Nominees:
Terri Clark Sara Evans Martina McBride Gretchen Wilson Lee Ann Womack
I think Martina needs to sit on the bench for a while. I mean, she's great and all, but this'll be her 4th time in a row to win if she gets it, so I'm going for Sara Evans. I'd go for her anyway. What are your predictions?
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WhySoSerious?
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Post by WhySoSerious? on Mar 6, 2005 13:04:31 GMT -5
I think it's Gretchen's to lose. She honestly deserves it most. I'd like Sara to win, but I think Lee Ann is the dark horse.
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Post by musicfan_84 on Mar 6, 2005 14:24:38 GMT -5
If Lee Ann wins, I'll be upset. She JUST came back in the spotlight. I'm really pulling for Sara for this one--she deserves it!
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Post by someguy on Mar 6, 2005 16:24:54 GMT -5
I'm a little annoyed that Reba's not here, but that's besides the point. As much as I like Martina, it's time for someone new. IMO, Terri had her chance last year and didn't get it. This year is between Gretchen and Sara. I like Sara better, but Gretchen's had the stronger year. My prediction is Sara, but it'll be close between the two.
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Post by musicbuff78 on Mar 6, 2005 16:41:22 GMT -5
It will be Martina hands down. Sara would be the closest to win next to her.
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Post by mbgriffith1 on Mar 6, 2005 18:10:35 GMT -5
I really hope Sara wins it this year and that next year Lee Ann can take home this award again as recognition for putting out the best country album by a male or female in YEARS.
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Post by reidster on Mar 6, 2005 18:36:57 GMT -5
I think Martina is the least-likely to win the award this year...
Terri Clark Sara Evans Gretchen Wilson all had a better year than Martina did [they all scored a NUMBER ONE spot on Billboards HOT COUNTRY SINGLES chart]....
and Lee Ann Womack might get it because of all the critical acclaim of this new album, but since it just came out, i think Lee Ann will get it next year...
Gretchen will win one award at the ACMs this year, for best new artist....but still has many years of spotlight, and will receive it in a couple of years, after the release of her next album...
So its down to Sara and Terri....and im going to go with Terri Clark, because, this is probably her last chance to get the award, and i'm sure the ACM will give it to her.... Sarah will probably be nominated with her next effort, but Terri has ups and down songs [up=girls lie too, down= the world needs a drink]... If Terri doesn't release another song like GLT, or I just wanna be mad, she'll never win... so this is her chance.. and im predicting Terri....
Anywho.. Shania should of been nominated...
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Post by countrymusicfan6 on Mar 6, 2005 18:48:12 GMT -5
I agree that Martina Mcbride shouldn't win this award. If she did, it would be undeserved. She hasn't had a top ten hit in over a year and hasn't released a new album
I don't think Lee Ann should win this award, as she has just returned and really hasn't done that much this past year.
Gretchen Wilson has had an amazing year but she is too new and thats why she should recieve the New Artist Award. She hasn't proven to be a Top Female Artist yet.
IMO, it comes down to Terri Clark and Sara Evans. I think both of these ladies have had similar years. They each had #1 hits, they both have been apart of major tours and both have had good record sales.
But I believe it is Terri who should take this award home as she has spent ten years producing solid COUNTRY hits, selling records and staying true to herself. She has been nominated 3 years in a row(sara hasn't) and each year has been a contender. Plus, this past year she released her GH CD that has been her best selling album to date. It went gold faster than Restless and pretty much somes up why she is most deserving of this award.
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Post by WakeUpOlder on Mar 6, 2005 19:20:06 GMT -5
I'm pulling for Sara. Sara was the #1 most-played female in the country genre for 2004 and her album quickly went platinum with the huge success of "Suds In The Bucket" Sara doesn't have the sales of Gretchen, but I too think Gretchen is a little too new for this award.
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Post by automyskin89 on Mar 6, 2005 20:13:03 GMT -5
Sara Evans all the way!
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Post by musicbuff78 on Mar 6, 2005 20:47:28 GMT -5
Don't get me wrong, I would LOVE for Sara to win. If it wasn't for Suds though, I don't know if her album would have gone platinum and the academy just loves Martina.
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Post by WhySoSerious? on Mar 6, 2005 20:57:52 GMT -5
Martina's schtick is beyond tired at this point. I think she's the least deserving of the nominees this year. She needs to come with something different next album. No songs about dying children or how wonderful it is to be a mother.
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Post by Evergreen on Mar 6, 2005 21:32:21 GMT -5
Gretchen Wilson OWNS country music. She should win.
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Post by automyskin89 on Mar 6, 2005 22:14:14 GMT -5
Martina's schtick is beyond tired at this point. I think she's the least deserving of the nominees this year. She needs to come with something different next album. No songs about dying children or how wonderful it is to be a mother. lol, omg
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Post by Free2Bme on Mar 7, 2005 1:05:48 GMT -5
I'd love to see Sara win based on "Suds" alone. However, Gretchen really made a huge impression on the industry in last year. Then, there's LAW with the traditional sound of "I May Hate Myself...." Gosh! These 3 women and Terri Clark released some much needed real country songs in '04.
Martina..... blah!
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Post by musicbuff78 on Mar 7, 2005 1:17:24 GMT -5
Gretchen will win best new artist, although Julie Roberts should and she's too new in the biz to win female vocalist....I can't recall the last "rookie" to win female vocalist. Sara would be a nice win, but I can't see someone winning for just one song in particular and Terri, if she were to ever win, should have when Pain to Kill came out, not this album. And although this is Martina's weakest album and with LeeAnn's being too new to even have been considered for this award, I see Martina walking away with it again.
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Post by LRFan42 on Mar 8, 2005 22:19:58 GMT -5
Even though Lee Ann Womack's new CD got great reviews and stuff like that, I still don't think that she deserves to be Female Vocalist of THE YEAR. Repeat that! OF THE YEAR. Lee Ann Womack's CD came out last month. I would have loved LeAnn Rimes to had been nominated. Compared to Lee Ann Womack she should've been. I mean, "Nothin' Bout Love Makes Sense" made it to the Top 5 country singles, and her "This Woman" CD debuted at #2 on the Country Albums Chart and at #3 on the Top 200. LAW's album didn't sell as much in it's first week as LAR's did. Anyways, I'm just saying that LeAnn Rimes deserved to be nominated instead of Lee Ann Womack.
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Post by musicbuff78 on Mar 8, 2005 22:59:48 GMT -5
Even though Lee Ann Womack's new CD got great reviews and stuff like that, I still don't think that she deserves to be Female Vocalist of THE YEAR. Repeat that! OF THE YEAR. Lee Ann Womack's CD came out last month. I would have loved LeAnn Rimes to had been nominated. Compared to Lee Ann Womack she should've been. I mean, "Nothin' Bout Love Makes Sense" made it to the Top 5 country singles, and her "This Woman" CD debuted at #2 on the Country Albums Chart and at #3 on the Top 200. LAW's album didn't sell as much in it's first week as LAR's did. Anyways, I'm just saying that LeAnn Rimes deserved to be nominated instead of Lee Ann Womack. OK, well since I agree, I'll say it. LeAnn Rimes deserved to be nominated instead of the traitor LeeAnn Womack.
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Post by KMCB on Mar 9, 2005 11:16:52 GMT -5
OK, well since I agree, I'll say it. LeAnn Rimes deserved to be nominated instead of the traitor LeeAnn Womack. I am sure I will regret asking this, but can you please explain this comment. As far as I remember, both of these artists 'dabbled' in pop-leaning music, so I hope it's not that tired old arguement.
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Post by musicbuff78 on Mar 9, 2005 12:13:16 GMT -5
This one's EASY. Womack said she would NEVER crossover, and 5 seconds later she did. Rimes never said she wouldn't. I understand she did, but huge diff. between saying one NEVER would and did and one not saying they wouldnt and doing so.
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Post by LRFan42 on Mar 10, 2005 20:58:31 GMT -5
LeAnn was experimenting when she released "Twisted Angel." It's what artists do. She got the whole "pop crossover success" with "How Do I Live," but even after that she still did contemporary country. LAW got too caught up with the success of "I Hope You Dance" and I think she felt as if she was royalty or something. LeAnn Rimes' "Sittin on Top of the World" wasn't as country, but was still sorta, and she released a CD of country remakes. LeAnn has been back to singing actual country music since 2003 I guess with "This Love." To me, "This Woman" seems to be an album with all of LeAnn's experiences with pop, rock, blues, and soul, but Lee Ann Womack's "There's More Where That Came From" seems like she's trying to convince everyone she's country by doing a traditional country album. "Something Worth Leaving Behind" sounds like LAW's regret, but LeAnn Rimes doesn't regret anything she's done. So that's sorta why I find Womack a traitor 'cause she just dropped both country and pop thinking either one will accept her.
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Post by KMCB on Mar 10, 2005 22:44:36 GMT -5
And we are exactly whom to call an artist a traitor? It just seems overly personal and silly to me. So LAW got a little carried away and made a few unpopular choices. So what? The same 'crossover' thing worked for Faith Hill and Martina. Sara Evans has admitted to changing her look based on what others were doing. So LAW said she would 'never crossover' and she did with a FEW songs on her album, not even the whole thing (radio didn't give it much of a chance after the first dismal single). Why does it *really* matter? I am so tired of hearing about this in country music. It seems to be the only genre where artists are constantly 'accused' of being EXPERIMENTAL. In most other forms of music and art, this is applauded. Why shouldn't they try something new when it suits them? They have the talent and the record deals and LAW's case, the success, to back them up. Obviously, she saw a problem with what she had done and made adjustments, as I imagine Faith will be doing with her next CD. Doesn't make 'em traitors... just HUMAN BEINGS. If you don't like it, just don't buy their CDs and... get over it?
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Post by KMCB on Mar 10, 2005 22:50:36 GMT -5
Oh, and BTW :)
I definitely see this as Gretchen's year. She is simply the hottest female right now and that's how the ACM's tend to go, blind to the 'eligibilty period.'
In my perfect world, it would be Sara. Her Restless CD is full of wonderful songs, she is vibrant and has a knockout voice. After that, I would love Terri to win because she's so against the grain of most country females and she is also very, very consistant. Most of her music is not 'earth-shattering,' but it's usually fun, well-written, and nicely produced. I think it's way too soon for LAW to be back in this category. Her new CD sounds like a big winner, but it just came out. I think Martina's Martinais a big fat yawn. I really, really like her, but until she shakes things a bit, I think her current award run needs to be over.
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Post by drock89 on Mar 10, 2005 22:55:05 GMT -5
I do too and I don't want to make this sound 'preppy' but if anyone in country could replace Shania imo it would be Gretchen. She's hot, she connects, and with the right stuff, she could be the next Shania for country. (The genre definetly needs it)
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Post by musicbuff78 on Mar 10, 2005 23:20:51 GMT -5
If you don't like it, just don't buy their CDs and... get over it? I don't buy them...DUH! That doesnt mean I still can't comment either.
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Post by bamafan2102 on Mar 11, 2005 0:06:08 GMT -5
If you want to be technical about things, Sara Evans was a bit of a traitor her self. She was to be the next so called Patsy Cline and when her first album bombed (Three Chords and The Truth) she decided to go with a more contemperary sound. Just my opinion. If this award goes by pure talent for those who are nominated (which combined with album sales and how singles fared during the peorid but pure talent should bare 75% of the ballot) Martina should win. She is by far the best singer of the group. I know that is not how it is done but it should be. I am also very tired of Martina's direction but the girl can sing her a*s off.
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Post by sevansfan on Mar 11, 2005 0:40:37 GMT -5
If Sara were to keep going in the direction of Three Chords, she would not be around right now. Most people would probly not even know who she is. Im sure if she hadn't of had the success she did with Born To Fly she would have been dropped by her label and faded out of the music scene. So now that "traditional" music is "in" Im sure her next album will have more songs like Suds and have a more traditional appeal. I am really looking forward to her new single in April (so they say) and a new album this summer!!! She said herself, she predicted 2004 to be a year of building up and 2005 to be her Breakthrough Superstardom year!! So with that said I am looking to her new single to be HUGE!
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Post by bamafan2102 on Mar 11, 2005 0:56:35 GMT -5
Don't get me wrong, I like Sara but if buliding up is releasing a a ballad like Tonight which bombed from a successful album then she is in trouble. I know she had a number one off of the album but most major players have at least top 20 hits off all the singles they release off of any given album. (Okay let the arguments begin)!
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Post by sevansfan on Mar 11, 2005 1:04:08 GMT -5
Well actually after she released it, it was moving very slowly and she wanted to have new material to do when she tours with Alan Jackson, so they pulled the song in order to get the new stuff out faster. Also in reviews I've read they called it the best single to be released in a while was being overshadowed by Lee Ann Womacks song "I May Hate Myself In The Morning" because they are very similar in content and Lee Ann's was released first. But still "Suds" was a good stepping stone.
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Post by Lee on Mar 11, 2005 1:07:57 GMT -5
It kind of stinks how every female in country music gets labeled as a traiter by someone who doesn't like them because of successes they have had in a music style other than country
LeeAnn Womack = constantly insulted for crossing over for her SWLB album LeAnn Rimes = unliked for Twisted Angel, Coyote Ugly Soundtrack, and How Do I Live Sara Evans = from TCATT to BTF she changed alot Faith Hill = Breathe and Cry Shania = pretty much everything Martina = she, like faith, seems to achieve more success at AC than Country
These ladies are all talented, and when it comes down to it, these are the artists that bring new listeners to the country format.
I don't know it just seems unfair. The thing is I don't care for Faith or Shania whatsoever, yet I know they ahieved success and I think it is good.
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