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Post by onebuffalo on Nov 14, 2017 18:07:42 GMT -5
How many songs have been premiered on the CMA Awards and went on to be massive hits? I can think of one and possibly another. The one I know for a fact was Alan Jackson’s “Where Were You (When The World Stopped Turning)”. The one I’m not sure about was Tim McGraw’s “Live Like You Were Dying”. Can’t remember if he premiered it on the CMA or ACM Awards. I would say the A.C.M.s for Live Like You Were Dying. It started its seven week reign in July, 2004. |
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Post by seak05 on Nov 14, 2017 18:25:32 GMT -5
Chris Stapleton's version of Tenn Whisky
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Post by CoJoFan on Nov 14, 2017 18:41:30 GMT -5
Chris Stapleton's version of Tenn Whisky I mean songs that were singles that were premiered at the CMA’s. |
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Post by onebuffalo on Nov 14, 2017 19:01:25 GMT -5
How many songs have been premiered on the CMA Awards and went on to be massive hits? I can think of one and possibly another. The one I know for a fact was Alan Jackson’s “Where Were You (When The World Stopped Turning)”. The one I’m not sure about was Tim McGraw’s “Live Like You Were Dying”. Can’t remember if he premiered it on the CMA or ACM Awards. Your 2000th post. Congratulations on going double platinum! |
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Post by someguy on Nov 18, 2017 2:31:01 GMT -5
How many songs have been premiered on the CMA Awards and went on to be massive hits? I can think of one and possibly another. The one I know for a fact was Alan Jackson’s “Where Were You (When The World Stopped Turning)”. The one I’m not sure about was Tim McGraw’s “Live Like You Were Dying”. Can’t remember if he premiered it on the CMA or ACM Awards. Faith Hill's "Breathe" |
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Post by tryexp on Nov 18, 2017 15:36:20 GMT -5
Not being a huge fan of this in it's finished product (as much as I support the concept) I was quite surprised I quite enjoy this version:
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Post by .indulgecountry on Nov 18, 2017 15:53:05 GMT -5
Not being a huge female of this I was quite surprised I quite enjoy this version: Wow, this is really good. I recognized Kalie Shorr right away (both from her voice and from her appearance in the video), but I'm not familiar with any of the other ladies who participated. Loved it though. |
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Post by zaclord 🌈 on Nov 18, 2017 17:06:11 GMT -5
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Post by tryexp on Nov 19, 2017 4:47:41 GMT -5
The Song Suffragettes is a weekly show with singer/songwriters (women only) at the Listening Room. There is some organization behind it, to support and promote the artists, but it's not only the ones that are on that video. Carly Pearce and Kelsea Ballerini are song suffragettes (they played at least once on the show). So while the video has some of the song suffragettes on it, it's by no means the whole of the "squad" :) |
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Post by Kanenrá:ke on Nov 19, 2017 11:31:38 GMT -5
Ok wow that cover is so much better than the original, it works from a female perspective where Keith’s comes off well off. I still love the message and intent of Keith’s but this is how it should’ve come out the first time.
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Post by zaclord 🌈 on Nov 19, 2017 13:44:51 GMT -5
I definitely enjoyed their cover and several of those women have great voices, but this song definitely needed to be sung by a male. Its the male population of country music listeners that apparently doesn't like listening to women country artists and the audience of who needs to hear this song are guys. People would easily write it off as another whiny feminist anthem from a female singer that would fail to go top 40 on radio and its impact would be abysmal compared to its potential sung by a prominent male artist standing up for women's rights and honestly just decent human behavior.
The chorus definitely could have been better, but I am hardcore rooting for this song to be big because of how many people need to hear this type of song being sung by a male artist.
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Post by LBTrocks on Nov 19, 2017 17:44:28 GMT -5
The chorus is just so dreadful. Their cover is better than the original, but not enough for me to care.
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Post by travelrocks24 on Nov 22, 2017 17:58:37 GMT -5
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Post by davidj on Nov 24, 2017 12:14:17 GMT -5
I may well get thrown in the fire for this, but to me the song sounds like it's sucking up to female listeners. It's just doe-eyed "women are perfect" all the way through, without nuance, which could be quite offensive in a Mary Sue way. After all, women aren't perfect and men aren't either.
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Post by tryexp on Nov 24, 2017 14:33:47 GMT -5
I may well get thrown in the fire for this, but to me the song sounds like it's sucking up to female listeners. It's just doe-eyed "women are perfect" all the way through, without nuance, which could be quite offensive in a Mary Sue way. After all, women aren't perfect and men aren't either. I really fail to see your point...The verses are mostly about how sexist men see women (hits like a girl, she asked for it, Adam first, etc), basically questioning the logic in a lot of those sayings/assumptions. They even include assumptions women have about themselves (When you hear a song that they play saying you run the world, Do you believe it?). The chorus is a mixed bag and I would agree it sounds like it was written by putting generic words together, but the inclusion of "scarlet letter" alludes to the judgement women faced for being adulterers. Overall I think what the writers were going for was to show all the different "faces"/angles every woman has/can have on that chorus, but I don't interpret it as it being "look at all they are and they are all perfect". |
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Post by No Goodbye Coco, Hello Coco on Nov 24, 2017 15:05:39 GMT -5
I may well get thrown in the fire for this, but to me the song sounds like it's sucking up to female listeners. It's just doe-eyed "women are perfect" all the way through, without nuance, which could be quite offensive in a Mary Sue way. After all, women aren't perfect and men aren't either. I don’t think this song displays women as “perfect,” but I can see what you mean about “Female” coming off as if they just came up with a laundry list of cliches and attempted to make them into a song. I don’t doubt Keith & the writers had their hearts in the right place, but it’s a bit troubling how almost everything on the radio comes out to sanitized & made for mass consumption, even if the idea of the song is promising. I think there was a promising idea here and the song could have been really powerful, but the execution fell really flat for me. |
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Post by Kentucky25 on Nov 26, 2017 13:53:11 GMT -5
I may well get thrown in the fire for this, but to me the song sounds like it's sucking up to female listeners. It's just doe-eyed "women are perfect" all the way through, without nuance, which could be quite offensive in a Mary Sue way. After all, women aren't perfect and men aren't either. I don’t think this song displays women as “perfect,” but I can see what you mean about “Female” coming off as if they just came up with a laundry list of cliches and attempted to make them into a song. I don’t doubt Keith & the writers had their hearts in the right place, but it’s a bit troubling how almost everything on the radio comes out to sanitized & made for mass consumption, even if the idea of the song is promising. I think there was a promising idea here and the song could have been really powerful, but the execution fell really flat for me. There's still touches of that in the lyrics, the "short skirt...is that how that works?" line in particular, but it feels like it doesn't go far enough into the statement to make it a "message" song. The song does just basically do the traditional laundry list about a girl song, albeit in a slightly different way. Kudos for the attempt, while it may not be the most fully developed idea, the sentiment is there. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2017 17:19:37 GMT -5
"Female" enters the MB Top 30 at #23 gaining 8 spots this week and passing Miranda Lambert, Brett Eldredge, High Valley, Chris Stapleton, Jordan Davis, Lee Brice, and Brantley Gilbert this week as "Female" gains 818 spins this week.
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Post by jsb on Jan 6, 2018 8:50:09 GMT -5
This song has had a slow first post holiday week. I wonder if this one gets to the top 10, but that’s about it?
It is a message song and a challenging message song to county music, the entertainment industry, and beyond. It does not have much of a country sound, whatever that is, so I have an inclination to believe that it might reach a lower peak than typical Urban peak.
Keith himself said he didn’t necessarily see this as a lead single,but a song that was a reaction to raw and real moments and events. It could be left as a stand-alone single and the new era gets its own entry and promotion.
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Post by onebuffalo on Jan 6, 2018 8:59:02 GMT -5
This song has had a slow first post holiday week. I wonder if this one gets to the top 10, but that’s about it? It is a message song and a challenging message song to county music, the entertainment industry, and beyond. It does not have much of a country sound, whatever that is, so I have an inclination to believe that it might reach a lower peak than typical Urban peak. Keith himself said he didn’t necessarily see this as a lead single,but a song that was a reaction to raw and real moments and events. It could be left as a stand-alone single and the new era gets its own entry and promotion. I'm surprised we have not had any announcements about a new album yet. Female has been a much talked about record for Keith Urban. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2018 9:02:32 GMT -5
This song has had a slow first post holiday week. I wonder if this one gets to the top 10, but that’s about it? It is a message song and a challenging message song to county music, the entertainment industry, and beyond. It does not have much of a country sound, whatever that is, so I have an inclination to believe that it might reach a lower peak than typical Urban peak. Keith himself said he didn’t necessarily see this as a lead single,but a song that was a reaction to raw and real moments and events. It could be left as a stand-alone single and the new era gets its own entry and promotion. I'm surprised we have not had any announcements about a new album yet. Female has been a much talked about record for Keith Urban. If I recall we never even got an album announcement of Ripcord until the third single "Wasted Time". So for myself I'm not shocked we haven't heard much in terms of album news. |
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Post by onebuffalo on Jan 6, 2018 9:04:03 GMT -5
I'm surprised we have not had any announcements about a new album yet. Female has been a much talked about record for Keith Urban. If I recall we never even got an album announcement of Ripcord until the third single "Wasted Time". So for myself I'm not shocked we haven't heard much in terms of album news. I found that to be strange as well. What is with Keith Urban not striking while the iron is hot? |
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Post by jhomes87 on Jan 6, 2018 11:48:38 GMT -5
If I recall we never even got an album announcement of Ripcord until the third single "Wasted Time". So for myself I'm not shocked we haven't heard much in terms of album news. I found that to be strange as well. What is with Keith Urban not striking while the iron is hot? I don't think it was strange at all. It kept interest at a high level, and Ripcord went on to become Keith's most successful album in a long time, probably since 2009's Defying Gravity, and I'd wager that it's because it had two singles released before the full album, and then the 4th single was the album's most successful single. I think delaying Ripcord until the 3rd single was climbing the charts proved to be a very successful strategy for Keith. I don't know if he'll do something similar again, or if he should do it again, but it seemed to be a good approach the last time anyway. |
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Post by .indulgecountry on Jan 6, 2018 12:46:00 GMT -5
I echo everything that jhomes87 said above and also would throw in that based on comments I remember him making, the album probably isn't even ready yet. He took an opportunity by releasing this when the timing was perfect, but it didn't mean that he was ready to go with a new record, especially seeing as he did the same thing with Ripcord previously. We'll probably get another single before he drops the album maybe sometime this summer, if I had to guess. |
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Post by avalyn on Jan 7, 2018 12:03:13 GMT -5
If I recall we never even got an album announcement of Ripcord until the third single "Wasted Time". So for myself I'm not shocked we haven't heard much in terms of album news. I found that to be strange as well. What is with Keith Urban not striking while the iron is hot? I posted this in the Upcoming Albums 2017 post, it's from his interview with Bobby Bones back on November 15th. |
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Post by CoJoFan on Jan 11, 2018 18:34:42 GMT -5
Keith just announced a livestream event on Facebook on January 17. That could possibly mean the album announcement.
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Post by g8erboi on Jan 17, 2018 13:40:58 GMT -5
Hmmm could this be the album? Perhaps the next single?
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Post by DJ General on Jan 17, 2018 16:59:57 GMT -5
I heard it was the lead single, with the album being released on March 16th.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2018 17:56:06 GMT -5
I heard it was the lead single, with the album being released on March 16th. "Female" being a non-album single? Not doubting your source, but if true that's very strange. Keith has of course released multiple singles before an album release in the past, and it's not like this one has underperformed. I don't care for it, as it's basically just a lazy attempt to discuss a current issue (and what's with the random female sighs?) but then again I didn't really like much of his past album anyway. |
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Post by jhomes87 on Jan 17, 2018 18:08:18 GMT -5
It certainly seems that Keith is teasing a new song for a Friday release, which would be really interesting because if he's sending it to radio, he'd essentially be the one to end his top 10 streak. "Female" has been moving rather sluggishly but seems like it could at least make the top 10...but that won't happen if a new single is coming on Friday.
Very interesting. Every one of Keith's single has made it to the top 10 except his debut, "It's A Love Thing", which peaked at #18. He's had 38 top 10s in a row, dating back to 2000, and that's by far the longest active streak for any country artist. Even if "Female" isn't included on the album for some reason, if it doesn't go top 10, I'm sure it'd be viewed as the song that broke the streak, because after all it is a single that's been worked to radio for more than 10 weeks now.
That clip sounds really good and I'm definitely excited for new Keith music, but I'd like for "Female" to make the top 10 first, to keep Keith's streak going.
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