Kacey Musgraves Decries Double Standards via Eric Church “Who Wears His F-cking Sunglasses All The Time”
WARNING: Some Language
Kacey Musgraves is getting ready to release her latest album Golden Hour on March 30th, and in a big spread in Billboard released on Thursday (3-29), she answers questions and runs through a host of issues that she says she faces as a country music mainstream outlier, and a woman in the genre. One such issue Musgraves says is the double standard that exists for how women are treated in the genre compared to men, especially when it comes to image.
But what some Eric Church fans are wondering is why she had to single out Church with especially pointed language, while Church critics are pumping their fists somebody high profile has finally challenged Mr. Misunderstood on his ever-present eyewear.
In the feature, Kacey Musgraves says a woman would never be allowed to walk around in sunglasses as an image accessory, but Eric Church “…wears his fucking sunglasses all the time.”
“Well, the bar for women to be ‘rebellious’ is fairly low,” interviewer
“Oh, my God, totally,” Musgraves replies. “All you have to do is not smile. And then they’re like, ‘She’s a bitch.’ There’s so much extra pressure on females in the music industry to be accommodating and nice, and it’s such horseshit. They would never say that to Stapleton, or Eric Church, who wears his fucking sunglasses all the time. If I wore my sunglasses all the time, people would be like, ‘She thinks she is hot shit.'”
A seminal part of Eric Church’s image is the Ray Ban Aviators he wears virtually all the time on stage. Often in interviews, Church has referenced wearing the sunglasses as a change in personality for when he goes out to perform, becoming “Chief” (which is also the name of his 3rd record). But there’s also a more practical application for the sunglasses. Church says that bright stage lights of bother him greatly and “fry my contacts.”
“If I’m not playing shows, I usually don’t wear them,” Church told CMT’s Alison Bonaguro. “But my eyes don’t do real well in lights. So if I’m playing shows, I’ll have shades on.”
Furthermore, Eric Church has been criticized plenty for attempting to display an extra level of machismo via his Aviators, at least at Saving Country Music (who just made reference to it in an article a couple of weeks ago), and in the press and public. That’s one of the reasons the press broaches the subject with Church in interviews commonly.
However Kacey Musgraves has certainly been held to a higher standard, and been the victim of unfair ridicule for image as well. In 2014, she was widely criticized not for smiling, but for frowning when it was announced that Miranda Lambert had won for Female Vocalist of the Year that Musgraves was also in contention for at the CMA Awards. But it was clearly a case of Musgraves simply not being boned up on forced media coaching most music celebrities go through instead of being angry at MIranda, later saying, “Sometimes my face just looks that way and it doesn’t really mean anything. I could learn to smile a little bit. There was no [ill] intention in that at all.”
March 29, 2018 @ 9:28 am
And another reason to skip her
March 29, 2018 @ 9:51 am
For pointing out an issue that’s blatantly obvious?
March 29, 2018 @ 10:38 am
Right, no one EVER brings up what guys wear. Heck, males never even get any negative press
June 3, 2021 @ 3:15 pm
How about what women wear? Look at RaeLynn on stage and videos. Or Cardi B or any female performers. Sex sells
March 29, 2018 @ 2:07 pm
Its not an issue, its a passing comment. Quit being so weak, maybe she should stay out of the limelight and quit leaning of sex appeal. Hypocrisy, I tell you.
April 1, 2018 @ 10:28 pm
Yes I think she leans on sex appeal. I’ve seen her wear some pretty sexy outfits, not that I mind. If she wants to flaunt it, she has every right to do so. But it is hypocritical to flaunt it and then play the gender card and complain about the attention she is getting. It is a common political tactic of the progressive left. I used to like her when I heard her first few songs, but Kacey is wearing out her welcome with me.
March 29, 2018 @ 10:49 am
Hail yeah she ain’t gittin any of my money
March 29, 2018 @ 3:53 pm
Your fragility is showing
March 29, 2018 @ 5:20 pm
Skip her ? …She is absolutely right . There IS a double standard .AND we shouldn’t be surprised at her honesty ……she’s built a career on the most honest , real , universally relateable lyrics around.
We all know there’s a double standard …always has been . She’s just reminding us of that .
March 29, 2018 @ 5:44 pm
I don’t know whose music you’re listening to, but it sure doesn’t sound like Kacey’s. She’s bitter and desperate to make people think she’s edgy. ????
March 29, 2018 @ 9:50 pm
Hey, now!
Maybe the comment you’re replying to is making a point about what a pathetic little CLINT you’d have to be to feel so threatened by a woman pointing out an unambiguous fact about music coverage, that you’d “skip her,” despite the fact that she makes good music!
(Or, more likely, they use the word CLINT looks like when capitalized to refer to every woman who makes them feel small…which is to say, every single woman they’ve ever met.)
July 14, 2018 @ 7:44 am
She’s sexy as fuck!
July 1, 2021 @ 9:36 pm
Seriously! Can we have people with genuine ideas and stop following. ? I dont know. Hank Jr. fan ????
March 29, 2018 @ 9:35 am
She and Margo price should record together, as all they seem to do lately is bitch instead of making good music
March 29, 2018 @ 1:28 pm
Lol this is the point exactly. All she did was answer questions in an interview and it’s considered bitching.
March 29, 2018 @ 4:53 pm
When she replies by using words like “horsehit” and “fucking sunglasses”…it sounds a lot like bitching. She could have made a broader point rather than pointing out Eric. It’s childish, much like her music.
March 29, 2018 @ 9:01 pm
Church is a tool’s tool though. I don’t mind it when he is called out.
March 29, 2018 @ 9:52 pm
I thoroughly fucking enjoy Eric’s music…and anyone whining about this interview is the definition of a “bitch.”
March 30, 2018 @ 5:50 pm
Sounds like bitching to you. I thought she made a good point.
March 29, 2018 @ 9:37 am
I used to make a lot of fun of Church’s sunglasses, but lately I’ve been so busy making fun of his George Michael wannabe look that I barely notice them.
March 29, 2018 @ 10:05 am
Jealous….much?! He’s FUCKING HOT!
March 29, 2018 @ 10:58 am
No, not jealous at all. But thanks for asking.
And I do get that some people are into gay 1980s pop stars who happen to be dead. I just think it’s a little weird when 2010’s country stars try to look like them.
March 29, 2018 @ 9:02 pm
I wouldn’t call him “country”.
March 30, 2018 @ 7:58 am
Good point. I was speaking in relative terms rather than literal.
March 29, 2018 @ 9:37 am
Why the hell does it matter to her if the fella wants to wear his damn sunglasses on stage
March 29, 2018 @ 9:50 am
It doesn’t and that’s exactly her point. Or hell, even her being criticized and it being such a big deal when she said roll up a joint. Yet you hear shit like roll one up all the time on the radio and it’s no big deal.
March 29, 2018 @ 10:44 am
Or the fact that many of the same folks that forced on edit on her “joint” lyric couldn’t wait to play (and award) Willie & Snoop Dogg’s “Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die”.
“Oh, that’s just Willie being Willie, that’s TOTALLY different!”
March 29, 2018 @ 11:03 am
“Follow Your Arrow” won the 2014 CMA Song of the Year.
What did “Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die” win?
I agree though, it was a shame the song was censored when she performed it on TV. But in that case, I think it was “joint” was too strong of a word for a TV audience, not necessarily because Musgraves was a woman. But perhaps it was.
March 29, 2018 @ 9:56 pm
See…those aren’t distinct issues, haha.
March 29, 2018 @ 9:51 am
That is the point though – it doesn’t matter. She is saying women are much more likely to be critiqued for what they wear, which is true.
March 29, 2018 @ 5:26 pm
you totally missed the point bigrob . read again
March 29, 2018 @ 9:38 am
I think I saw her up on stage playing in her underwear once.
March 29, 2018 @ 12:43 pm
When was this?
March 29, 2018 @ 1:50 pm
Anyone in the first 3 rows did. Bright pink, very nice.
April 2, 2018 @ 10:06 pm
Sometimes she performs without underwear.
March 29, 2018 @ 9:40 am
OMG a woman said something mildly critical of my favorite singer! I’m soooooooooooooooooooo butthurt!
March 29, 2018 @ 9:41 am
Ian Hunter of Mott the Hoople always wore sunglasses too. Not a big deal.
March 29, 2018 @ 11:34 am
I’m guessing nobody’s heard of Ian Hunter.
March 29, 2018 @ 11:42 am
You’d be wrong. Once bitten, twice shy, my friend.
March 29, 2018 @ 9:42 am
Again you take one comment she made in an excellent interview and make her seem like anti Eric Church. That’s not what she is saying. She is using it as an example to further the point of the discrepancy in the standards women in country music are held. Her new album is excellent and is already receiving rave reviews. Lets stick to criticizing the actual music.
March 29, 2018 @ 9:52 am
Again?
“She is using it as an example to further the point of the discrepancy in the standards women in country music are held.”
That’s cool, and I think it’s an important subject. And I decided to take that discussion point and expound upon it, and open it up to discussion to the faithful Saving Country Music reader. A lot of folks are going to assume a hidden agenda here, because that’s what happens with topics like this (see comment below yours from Hal SF), or that it’s “click bait.” Sorry, I’ve criticized Eric Church for wearing sunglasses (sometimes playfully, sometimes critically) and for displaying an arrogant personality more times than I could count. I also think women are held to a higher standard, image or otherwise, in country music.
March 29, 2018 @ 11:13 am
Her new album isn’t excellent, and it’s not Country. It’s soft mediocre Pop music that sounds like Colbie Caillat. I couldn’t care less what she thinks about Eric Church’s sunglasses or how she’s photographed.
March 29, 2018 @ 11:18 am
Rollingstone, The Guardian, The Boston Globe, NPR, USA Today and Billboard disagree. I’ll read their review over yours.
March 29, 2018 @ 4:05 pm
Because Billboard and Rolling Stone are bastions of credibility when it comes to country music
March 29, 2018 @ 10:05 pm
NPR, The Guardian and the Globe, however, have excellent country critics on staff.
And, of course, Trig’s been complimentary of both Butterflies and (especially) Space Cowboy.
But, uh, other people like it too!!! Clearly, it’s lame
March 29, 2018 @ 10:29 pm
Trig can like both Butterflies and Space Cowboy they’re Pop songs NOT Country songs. The album as a Pop album can and should be discussed that way but if you’re an “excellent Country critic” call a spade a fuckin spade.
March 30, 2018 @ 3:48 am
I’m a fan of Kacey Musgraves she releases quality content for the most part. However for example High Horse could be the greatest song of all time but it will be forever decidedly not country. I read the rolling stone country review. The author went on to say that The Bee Gees wrote Island In the Stream, and few other things generalizing why it should be accepted as a country song. If someone has to defend a song as country by referencing The Bee Gees as proof then you already know the argument doesn’t hold substance. That’s like saying if someone recorded a 9 inch nails sounding song and people were like oh yea that’s country because Trent Reznor wrote Hurt and Johnny Cash recorded it. In saying all of this my point is most news outlets when talking about country music fall short when talking about the genre because either A) they’re main focus isn’t country music or B) They’re a bought and paid for hype machine. So please respond with with more cursive laden sentences because you don’t have anything worth saying.
March 30, 2018 @ 3:49 am
Also I’m not saying high horse is the greatest song of all time I’m using it to make a point
March 30, 2018 @ 3:53 am
Also disregard the the cussing comment that was stupid I read it wrong and was not about JB. The comments start to run together sometimes
March 30, 2018 @ 6:09 am
NPR does have some good music writers, but I don’t place much value on their album reviews anymore. They tend to be more like feature pieces.
March 30, 2018 @ 9:42 am
You will never see a critical comment on NPR. I love a lot of their coverage, and they are my A1 destination for music journalism. But at this point it’s no more than a promotional arm for the Americana industry.
March 29, 2018 @ 9:43 am
I have a sinking feeling this is the latest example of a post “supporting” women in country music in a weirdly ambiguous and strangely backhanded way that results in a comet tail of comments trashing said women.
March 29, 2018 @ 9:45 am
I mean, it’s one funny line in a big cover story… this feels pretty misleading, Trig. In the context of the conversation, she’s just talking about her perceived “bitch” status, and I think this was just a convenient example, because she doesn’t really tear other artists down. She’s NEVER been willing to play ball with all her invitations to hate the mainstream label/radio artists.
It’s an interesting article. She also talks about how it’s not her place to lobby for drug use, how Americana is good but can feel one note, how she’s never experienced sexual assault in country music, and her admiration for Dolly/Willie/John Prine. The more I read about her, the more I actually feel struck by her humility, not her pride.
March 29, 2018 @ 10:05 am
I presented the quote in context in this article, and linked to the original story. I agree it’s a buzzy title, but I’m not sure how else I could have worded it. The title is way too long as it is. I’m also not going to go into someone else’s article and pull out all the points because it’s their article, not mine. I agree it’s a great article and I wanted to highlight it, and so I linked to it and pulled out one of the most relevant points for a deeper discussion here since Eric Church has been widely criticized here specifically for wearing sunglasses all the time.
March 29, 2018 @ 9:46 am
I think she is completely off base here. First, let’s not act like she doesn’t have a shtick on stage with her whole act. Next, she would get no more criticism if she wore sunglasses. She is a media darling and get very little criticism in the media, hers mainly comes from comment sections and twitter handlers, which I could argue Eric Church has much more critics on those same platforms. With all the men in music objectifying women and she picks out the guy who has offered multiple unknown women a huge platform to display their talents. That seems very shallow to me, but hey it is a great way to get attention, because his name is a lightning rod. While Eric Church has an enormous fan base, it is not way off base to say he almost has as many people constantly taking shots at him, it is just who he is.
March 29, 2018 @ 9:49 am
hers mainly comes from comment sections and twitter handlers,
Let’s not forget Bobby Bones
March 29, 2018 @ 10:47 am
Wait, what unknown women has he given platforms to?
March 29, 2018 @ 10:56 am
Brian has a very, very good point.
Valerie June got her first taste of a national audience via an Eric Church collaboration:
https://savingcountrymusic.com/valerie-june-stuns-the-acm-awards-in-duet-with-eric-church/
He also chose Rhiannon Giddens as a duet partner for his single “Kill A Word.” And these aren’t just women, they were African American women in country music. He also featured Lzzy Hale on his song “That’s Damn Rock ‘n Roll” off his album ‘The Outsiders.’ He’s been a big champion of Ashley McBryde, and helped McBryde get her current management team and record deal. Without Church, there is no Ashley McBryde in the mainstream.
Church has done a ton for country music women.
That said, let’s not overlook the fact that Kacey was not going after Eric Church specifically. She was just trying to use sunglasses as an example of a double standard.
March 29, 2018 @ 1:35 pm
He definitely helped McBryde.
Rhiannon Giddens had a MacArthur “Genius” Grant AND 5 Grammy noms (1 win) to her name pre-Church CMA performance.
Gibson was already producing custom guitars for Hale two years before her Church debut. They made a signature guitar the same year as their debut.
June’s collab was so important to her career that it is nowhere to be found in any bio on her that I can find online. Of the first 5 links that come up on a Google search, two are Youtube clips, and the other three are SCM links. It got attention, but it didn’t make a lasting impact, unless you can point to something that has happened in the years later that can be traced back to that moment.
March 29, 2018 @ 4:23 pm
Winning Grammys doesn’t make you well known ok?
Collaborating with Eric elevated her status, take it or leave it. She was introduced to a wider audience.
March 29, 2018 @ 4:24 pm
Huh Isaac, that’s not what Valerie June thought when I interviewed her about it.
https://savingcountrymusic.com/the-mysterious-woman-in-red-revealed-interview-with-valerie-june/
“Q: It’s hard not to look at your performance on the ACM’s, and wonder if we will look back on that moment as a career turning point. Many folks considered it the best performance at this year’s ACM’s, and one of the most memorable in ACM history. Have you felt an elevated interest in your voice, your story, and your music since the performance?
A: This performance most definitely has elevated my career to another level. I’m a HUGE old country music fan. Often times, it can feel like the world is not ready to hear me on a stage like that. This experience surprised me in many ways. We live in a beautiful time. After seeing some of the buzz around our performance, I am moved to trust that world a bit more instead of judging it. It was lovely how everyone at the ACM’s welcomed me!”
Honestly, it makes me pretty fucking sick how folks are just trying to twist whatever they can to pit folks against each other and mischaracterize people’s actions on important matters. That ACM moment WAS very important for Valerie June. Don’t diminish it just because you believe that somehow bolsters your argument against Eric Church, and for Kacey Musgraves. I’ve been a HUGE critic of Eric Church over the years. But give him some fucking credit for giving some important women a step up.
March 29, 2018 @ 1:55 pm
Don’t forget Taylor Swift.
Iirc, Taylor Swift gave her first Grammy to Eric because he launched her career. Slightly indirectly.
March 29, 2018 @ 3:11 pm
Her whole act is “shtick”
March 29, 2018 @ 9:48 am
I think some people are missing the point. It’s not necessarily about Church. It’s about how a lot of artists, especially females, get extra criticism because they aren’t all smiles. God forbid they have an opinion or voice anything mildly controversial or they get an extra helping of hate.
March 29, 2018 @ 9:55 am
I would agree with you on this point, however I think that she picked a bad name. There is nobody that gets blasted any more than Eric Church, he has as many haters. I also think that she is much more of a media darling that Eric Church, everything she does gets rave reviews.
March 29, 2018 @ 10:34 am
I think women in country music are held to a higher standard than men. I have written many, many articles that highlight or expound on this issue because I believe it’s an important one, and very relevant to today’s country environment. So please, understand this is the baseline for what I’m about to say.
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As a hard country music critic, I have never criticized Kacey Musgraves on her image. In fact, I have complimented her on her image multiple times, and not just in a “hubba hubba” sort of manner, but in her deft use of kitsch and the incorporation of vintage country clothing styles into a more modern presentation that helps preserve the style of traditional country in the modern context, which is an important effort. And for these compliments I HAVE been criticized for being sexist, misogynistic, not focusing on the music where the attention should be, etc. etc.
Conversely, I have tongue lashed Eric Church countless times in wide, sweeping criticism for his arrogance, and specifically when it comes to the imagery surrounding his music, and him constantly wearing sunglasses on stage in in-depth, dedicated articles on the subject. Granted, since his last record “Mr. Misunderstood” where it appears Eric has turned a leaf in the way he presents both himself and his music, I have become a bit more of an apologist than a critic of Church, because I believe he’s learned how to be more authentic to himself and lose the whole rock star vibe. But still the archive of Eric Church criticism is vast and deep.
Does Kacey have a point that country’s women are held to higher standards? I can’t see how you could look at the country charts (no country women in the Top 20 right now on radio) and say this isn’t the case. But Eric Church’s sunglasses may have not been the best example. It was something symbolic compared to the very subsnative issues facing country women.
March 30, 2018 @ 7:35 am
you’re to talk, lol, I remember distinctly how you attacked Taylor Swift over and over again when she was an 18 year old teen, then when you said she’s only famous cause her eyes are far apart or some nonsense like that. Teenagers, whether famous or not, are already going through so much, I’m sure she didn’t need a grown up man to insult her as well, funny how you’re suddenly interested in women being ignored or played on radio as you’re some feminist hero…
March 30, 2018 @ 9:40 am
You try etching every single word you utter publicly for a decade in stone for everyone to read for eternity, then compiling it into a database and make it completely searchable.
Never said I was a “feminist hero,” but your accusation does prove that the issues some have with me is not with my actions, but with their worry I will be perceived as superior on certain issues than them. It’s a turf war.
And I’m not “suddenly” interested in the lack of radio play for women. I’ve been covering this issue for over half a decade, which you would know if you’ve been reading the site the whole time instead of pulling up factoids from 9 years ago.
Take your weak shit back to Twitter.
March 29, 2018 @ 10:09 pm
The best part about this comment section is the morons climbing out of the woodwork to bitch about her having the temerity to criticize Church…”because” she’s not all smiles.
It’s like performance art!
March 30, 2018 @ 6:33 pm
she has never seemed particularly likeable.
Not that celebrities need to be “likeable.” Miles Davis was famously unpleasant. I’m led to believe that Conway Twitty was too.
this seemed more premeditated.
I’m going to say that she picked on Eric Church because she needed publicity for free and picking on Luke Bryan was career suicide and picking on Brantley Gilbert would be an exercise in futility.
other commenters have pointed out that she’s already a critical and media darling and that this seemed unnecessary except for trying to raise heck and start some business and I think it’s another case of “Miley Cyrus” syndrome. I.E. the idea that a famous or semi famous person has seen their career run its course and since they lack the material to stay on top they start creating scandals and headlines to maintain relevance and boost sales.
March 29, 2018 @ 9:57 am
I’m with her on the sunglasses. If you’re inside or if it is not sunny, take the damn things off, you look like an ass.
March 29, 2018 @ 4:28 pm
You are speaking from the “outside”. I wear contacts and I can’t stand bright lights when I’m wearing them. He wasn’t wearing glasses the year he won best album at the CMAs for Mr. Misunderstood. Before you start calling people names maybe you should understand our predicament. The struggle is real
March 30, 2018 @ 5:56 pm
Some people have diseases that make them sensitive to light. Be kind, asshole.
March 29, 2018 @ 9:57 am
Interviews like this are why I find Kacey Musgraves to be an interesting person. I just wish I liked her music more. Oh well. Personal taste.
March 29, 2018 @ 10:30 am
If that’s what you find interesting, I’m the next guy on the Dos Equis commercials.
March 29, 2018 @ 10:31 am
Yawn
March 29, 2018 @ 2:02 pm
I like that she pisses off neanderthals.
March 29, 2018 @ 10:02 am
I kind of get what you are doing here, but I think that by pulling this segment of the article, we are just going to end up with a Kacey bashing thread here.
March 29, 2018 @ 10:09 am
“I tell you one thing – I like a woman with a smart-ass mouth like that”
Leon Black
March 29, 2018 @ 10:15 am
I wouldn’t buy a copy of Golden Shower if Kacey delivered it to my front door in the buff.
March 29, 2018 @ 10:15 am
Eric wears his sunglasses at night so he can, so he can:
“Don’t switch the blade on the guy in shades oh no
Don’t masquerade with the guy in shades oh no
I can’t believe it!
‘Cause you got it made with the guy in shades oh no”
He wears them to hide from artists like you. Either way in Eric’s mind he’s the second coming of Jerry Jeff Hubbard Van Zandt. Alot of false machismo and outsiderness from the app state marketing degree recipient.
I can’t fathom this is following your arrow, aren’t their bigger turds in the punch bowl to throw “shade” at.
P.S. Only other dude I’ve seen wear shades like that is Rob Halford, who I love but well ya know. Maybe Graham Bonnett, too.
March 29, 2018 @ 10:43 am
Don’t forget Ronnie Milsap.
March 29, 2018 @ 10:17 am
Eric Church wears sunglasses because he is butt ugly and doesn’t look cool at all without them. Same reason Roy Orbison wore them except Roy could also really sing. So, no one really wants to look at Eric’s face and they’ve got to market it. Now Kacey on the other hand, we all like looking at her face. She’s beautiful. So, I think Kacey should just be happy that people want to see her face. I don’t buy Church’s contacts bullshit. He has enough money to get lasik surgery and not deal with that. I’m guessing that it was a total image move and probably not his idea. I wouldn’t mind if Margo Price wore sunglasses.
March 29, 2018 @ 10:50 am
Saying she doesn’t have to wear sunglasses because she’s pretty enough to market is KINDA what she’s talking about…
March 29, 2018 @ 10:54 am
Oh, poor Kacey. Life is so hard. People think she’s pretty and she markets herself by wearing skimpy little outfits. I have a hard time feeling sorry for her.
March 29, 2018 @ 10:13 pm
And, best of all, she gets to have bitter people discount her talent and keen perspective, and pretend that the only reason she’s successful is that “she’s pretty”!
March 30, 2018 @ 5:54 am
I didn’t discount her talent. I’m not a huge fan but I’d say she’s talented. Easy there Lester. It’s okay for me to say she’s pretty, uses her good looks, and I can’t really feel sorry for her. I’m sick of hearing these entitled artists complain. She should be grateful she makes a great living playing music. She’s made a career out of complaining and preaching.
March 30, 2018 @ 8:33 pm
+1
March 29, 2018 @ 10:57 am
Not quite. Roy Orbison was blind as a bat and had to wear prescription glasses all the time. He started wearing the sunglasses when he left his regular frames on a plane while on tour, and they just sort of became a pert of his image.
March 29, 2018 @ 10:21 am
Eric Church is probably upset that he would be judged for wearing short-shorts and Kacey can get away with it. There is no justice in this world. Freaking man-haters. I say let Eric wear some Daisy Dukes if he wants to. People are so judgemental.
March 29, 2018 @ 6:50 pm
Eric Church in Daisy Dukes. Now THAT would be a sight! #thechiefinshorts
Maybe a bikini the show after!
March 29, 2018 @ 10:25 am
Roy Orbison made sunglasses his trademark!
Hank Bocephus Jr always wears shades!!!! He even sang about them in “my name is Bocephus”
Haggard wore them frequently in live shows!!
Elton John also made sunglasses a trademark!
Bono from U2 always wears shades or tinted glasses.
Just saw pics of Raul Malo wearing them onstage.
Seen pics of Margo Price wearing them onstage..
Not an issue …get a life Kacey.
March 29, 2018 @ 11:06 am
Actually, you’re pretty much making her point. All of those artists are male except for Margo Price. And I’ve never seen her wear shades on stage except at outdoor venues which is a different deal.
March 29, 2018 @ 11:29 am
Add to that list Blondie and St. Vincent and Lady GaGa.My point is …this is stupid. If she wants to wear shades, do it. So, no I’m not making her point. Very few people are gonna care.
March 29, 2018 @ 1:34 pm
Enough seem to care to make a whole bunch of comments…
March 29, 2018 @ 10:25 am
IDK.. Personally, I don’t think her career has worked out the way she has wanted.. I think she wanted to be a mega-star. I keep going back to the Katy Perry crossroads and the reasons behind that. I think she is more bitter about her own image and attempts to become popular. I have nothing against her at all, just thoughts.
March 29, 2018 @ 10:59 am
Crying bitter tears in a Billboard cover story. Right.
March 29, 2018 @ 11:11 am
At age 30 the Pop Star train has left the station for her. I’m sure that causes a certain amount of frustration for her.
March 29, 2018 @ 11:13 am
Sad! That must be the train that leaves via 30 Rock.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Og8a3cUysYM
March 29, 2018 @ 1:33 pm
She’s opening for Harry Styles on a sold-out arena tour this year, and this album has the most pre-release buzz of any in her career thus far. Honestly, after playing a host of non-county-centric music festivals the past few years, and opening for Katy Perry’s tour a year or two back, someone on her team probably crunched the numbers and figured out she likely has as many “pop” fans than mainstream country fans at this point.
March 29, 2018 @ 10:37 am
I don’t feel she was necessarily attacking Church for his image just using him as an example. The problem I see is that I bet most men wouldn’t give a flying F if she wore sunglasses all the time either. It’s the women that are criticizing everything she does. I’ll admit as a guy I enjoy her legs a lot because we notice beauty and she shows them off, not that we think of her only in that way but it’s an added bonus, because her music speaks first. Honestly I could see Ashley Mcbryde wearing her shades all the time. Hell Terri Clark is known for her cowboy hats, so to me it’s the it’s the image she puts out there. She puts out the image of beauty, whereas other women don’t. So maybe she helped create this problem.
March 29, 2018 @ 10:37 am
Why does it matter? She’s not a country artist. I listened to Gold Shower and she has no say about Country music anymore.
Golden Shower actually made me respect Taylor Swift. Because when Swift went Pop, she had the respect to say it. Muskrat is packaging her pop fluff as country …. horse, cowboy, cowboy hat … hoping the dimwits eat it up. I have zero respect for her or her opinions about sunglasses.
March 29, 2018 @ 5:59 pm
Does “Golden Shower” make anyone think of pee or Chuck Berry home videos?
March 29, 2018 @ 10:38 am
I remember years ago in an interview Eric Church said he would be performing a faster paced song in concert, and it would look like he would be crying and getting all emotional. So one day, his manager gave him a pair of shades to help him out and Eric obviously liked them and been wearing them ever since. That’s it. That’s the whole story. Who new a guy could get criticized on this site for wearing a $20 pair of sunglasses. Country music has bigger issues than sunglasses. Lets keep it about the music.
March 29, 2018 @ 1:42 pm
In the spirit of fair and balanced coverage, Ray Ban Aviators start at $70 retail, non prescription.
🙂
March 30, 2018 @ 4:13 am
Ha you got me there trigger. Have a good Easter.
March 29, 2018 @ 11:03 am
in other news
Jason Isbell paid off the loan on a 2002 Ford Focus
Axl Rose switches from pulpy to no-pulp orange juice
Jack Benny’s grave frequented by a pelican
the pelican from Jack Benny’s grave is believed to not be the same pelican seen at a Jason Boland show in 2015
Luke Bryan has a routine teeth cleaning
Oprah changes her tv color settings and lowers the contract
Nintendo replaces one customer service representative with a more experienced one
and a whole host of other things nobody cares about
March 29, 2018 @ 11:15 am
This is exactly along the lines of what I was thinking.
March 29, 2018 @ 11:17 am
What a pointless discussion.
I want all women to be demure ladies, and I want all men to be mannerly gentlemen.
I want Kacey Musgraves and Eric Church to disappear.
March 29, 2018 @ 1:42 pm
Exactly. whatever happened to class and good showmanship?
I’m sick of celebrities acting like big babies or tough guys or feeling entitled to stuff.
March 29, 2018 @ 11:20 am
Since I don’t like Kacey or Eric, I think I’ll just sit back and get the popcorn.
March 29, 2018 @ 11:37 am
T R I G G E R E D
March 29, 2018 @ 11:39 am
I like her, but no one is making her wear those ridiculous outfits either. How am I supposed to feel bad for her for not being able to wear her shades, when she looks like a reject from the Howdy Doody show.
March 29, 2018 @ 1:29 pm
If she wore sunglasses, I can say with total honesty I would not care at all, and I would never comment on it and draw some inference from it. The idea that people would be paying so much attention to the fact that she was wearing sunglasses says more about what she thinks of herself; a little too much, in my opinion
March 29, 2018 @ 1:30 pm
Hookers don’t make the rules, pimps do
March 29, 2018 @ 1:33 pm
Triggered millenial having a meltdown. Nothing to see here.
March 29, 2018 @ 2:01 pm
Men afraid of smart, strong women. An entire thread of examples. Who else are you of afraid of, guys? African Americans? Immigrants? Gays? Florida teenagers? Your own shadow? What is the full extent of your fear?
March 29, 2018 @ 2:12 pm
We’re not afraid of anybody, we just understand how ridiculously stupid and petty her comments were in this interview.
March 29, 2018 @ 2:22 pm
You forgot alien invasion. ????
March 29, 2018 @ 2:36 pm
Liberal
March 29, 2018 @ 6:38 pm
Rob,
That’s offensive to liberals. True liberals still possess their emotional sanity.
March 29, 2018 @ 3:17 pm
Jim is woke.
March 29, 2018 @ 4:25 pm
There is a lot of reaching in your post.
Typical tactic.
March 29, 2018 @ 4:35 pm
Jim is one of those sad, aging boomers who thought they were really something special. 50 years later, after they wrecked a decent civilization, they are vainly tilting at windmills, looking for the next “bigot” or “racist” to blame. When, if they simply walked past a mirror, they would see the real culprit.
March 29, 2018 @ 5:31 pm
RD,
I salute you for leaving this comment. I thought about saying something myself, but after reading this, I’m fairly satisfied that Jim now has a slightly better grasp on his place in the world.
March 29, 2018 @ 5:45 pm
Damn. Strong effort on a music blog. Strong, indeed.
March 29, 2018 @ 10:21 pm
Awwww, someone’s triggered!
Shouldn’t you be crying about the fact that one of Kacey’s producers is Mitzvah’d, which inevitably means that he’s attempting to subvert your volk…and is using his Jew telepathy to make you impotent unless you think about Ryan Gosling sweeping you off your feet and carrying you in his big, strong hands!
March 30, 2018 @ 7:01 am
I’m afraid of sharks, and data mining.
March 30, 2018 @ 8:28 pm
Calm down Jim.
March 29, 2018 @ 2:27 pm
Ehhh, no biggie. She likes being pissed off. Whatever works for her. I like her. Her new album didn’t sound too bad on NPR, what little I heard.
March 29, 2018 @ 2:32 pm
So I guess all this interview proves is that Musgraves, in the end, has no class.
March 29, 2018 @ 2:35 pm
“all these crazy beautiful things, like rainbows and shit — you know what I mean?” she says. She holds up the geode: ‘This crystal grew in the earth! I’m like, what?! Aaaghhh!'”
LOL
Bless her heart.
March 29, 2018 @ 2:35 pm
Kacey Musgraves is completely forgettable. Eric Church can wear his sunglasses all he wants, and so what if he’s trying to look macho? Hank Jr. wore his sunglasses on stage all the time. (And yes I know he had scars)
March 29, 2018 @ 2:57 pm
‘I was in this lonely, not-creative place and just felt like shit about myself,’ says Musgraves today on the bus, shaking her head at the memory. That changed as soon as she met singer-songwriter Ruston Kelly — now her husband — at Nashville’s famed Bluebird Cafe
The Salvific Male? A double-plus-ungood thought.
‘There’s a freedom in putting yourself out there from day one, never trying to fit someone else’s mold,’ says Musgraves, who wears a Dolce & Gabbana bodysuit
I love this journalist.
‘everyone has a soapbox these days! Everyone’s tired of it.’ Still, in conversation Musgraves is forthright with her opinions on everything
Ditto.
There’s so much extra pressure on females in the music industry to be accommodating and nice, and it’s such horseshit.
Totally. Since, like, the Neolithic.
I was probably 21 or 22 when I tried mushrooms. I had profound experiences.
Yes, those experiences are called “psilocybin.”
Sheryl has like, 50 acres, horses. She’d pop by, and we ended up talking about reincarnation and all this crazy shit.
[ journalist inserts picture of Kacey in expensive dress ]
What would Dolly [Parton] do? What would Willie do? They would say, ‘Fuck everybody, and just keep on trucking.’
I’m pretty sure Dolly would put it differently.
March 30, 2018 @ 6:02 am
Dolly Parton would stay classy. She would show her cards like Kasey does. Dolly is smart. She knows how to win by doing great music and great business. Kacey Musgraves is stupid and will never be in the same league as Dolly. Those quotes reveal a very immature person… and dumb.
March 29, 2018 @ 3:05 pm
My oh my,sounds like someone has their tear-off panties in a bunch.
March 29, 2018 @ 3:12 pm
“A players gonna play and a haters gonna hate and regulators born to regulate”. In other words Eric’s music kicks Kacey’s music in the pants any day. Like the world needs another liberal feminist. All she sings about is pot, homosexuality, and about how she hates tradition. Sure Church has some songs about pot but he has a wide variety of singles released to the radio that are about other things as well. The new album will probably suck based on the songs already released so who really cares anyway.
March 29, 2018 @ 10:24 pm
His non-“drug” songs are, generally, about sex, alcohol, and growing up in a small town where people got so triggered by the thought of anyone having a different perspective that they felt the need to lash out.
March 30, 2018 @ 11:42 am
Eric Church connects with the average joe, and thats why people like him. Songs like Record Year, Like Jesus Does, Love Your Love the Most, and others connect with hard working Americans like myself. Thats why people like him. She doesn’t connect with people in that way. She has the potential to though. Songs like Keep It To Yourself and Blowin Smoke do connect with that same audience. She just needs to do more of that and less of the political crap.
April 1, 2018 @ 1:24 pm
The new album contains exactly zero political crap, haha.
It’s also markedly worse than her previous two.
April 4, 2018 @ 4:53 am
I’m glad this is the first album that d album doesn’t have anything political on it. This like you said is still her worst album yet. It seems like for me as a listener she can’t do anything right. First she gets political on her first two albums. Next she loses her great traditional sound. She just doesn’t gets political on her first two albums. Next she loses her great traditional sound. She just can’t put it all together. do it for me.
April 4, 2018 @ 9:43 am
Sorry she just doesn’t do it for me.
March 29, 2018 @ 4:02 pm
I can’t begin to explain how I am so tired of this “woman verses establishment” crap that we have to read all the time, and all too often on this website.
March 29, 2018 @ 4:06 pm
You should spend some time on Twitter where there is nobody more singlehandedly holding women down in country music than myself. Not label owners, not radio programmers, not the people making Spotify’s mainstream playlists that will compose 50 songs and not even include one woman. It’s me. I am the biggest fat cat female oppressor on the planet. And I must be destroyed.
March 29, 2018 @ 5:04 pm
I’ve seen a little of that. Even with the Trixie Mattell article, you were somehow clueless. Never mind the many positive comments from Trixie’s fans and a thank you from Trixie on Twitter. Some people are trying too hard.
March 29, 2018 @ 5:38 pm
Trigger,
I’ve never taken a peek at Twitter, and I never will. But I believe that what you’re saying is true about how you’re perceived by the loons. And I think this is why you continuously post these types of articles. You perpetually feel the need to prove yourself to the kooks. You can’t stand to have them view you in a negative light.
March 29, 2018 @ 6:42 pm
Loons on Twitter don’t influence my coverage here any more than the neo-cons in the comments section. It’s my job to extricate myself from public opinion and say what I believe to be true in my heart regardless of how it’s perceived, or how popular it is. And in my heart I believe there is a double standard for women in country music, but I can’t pretend that Kacey saying that Eric Church would never be criticized for wearing “fucking” sunglasses all the time is in any way accurate. So everyone thinks I’m wrong.
March 29, 2018 @ 7:00 pm
“Loons on Twitter don’t influence my coverage here”
Respectfully, I don’t believe you. But I don’t necessarily think you’re lying to me; I think it’s highly likely that you have a subconscious need that you may not even be aware of.
“the neo-cons in the comments section.”
There really aren’t any neo-cons in these comment sections, that I’ve noticed. Most of the non-PC folks here are either Trumpers, Alt-“Right”ers, or Constitutional Conservative types.
March 29, 2018 @ 7:12 pm
And Trigger, I realize that you are a true believer in this cause. I just don’t think you’re as batcrap crazy as the Twitter loons are. But for whatever reason, you really want them to be pleased with you, yet still give your true opinions.
I regularly see you bending over backwards to apologize to the PC crazies anytime you perceive that you’ve offended them.
March 29, 2018 @ 8:11 pm
I was covering the issue plaguing women in country when most of the Twitter trolls were still skipping out on algebra class to go smoke pot behind the gymnasium. I’m not trying to please anybody.
March 30, 2018 @ 8:51 am
You and Annalise need a podcast. The beef alone would draw downloads.
March 31, 2018 @ 6:25 am
Suggestion: Get rid of your Twitter, and do away entirely with the articles defending yourself. They’re pointless because they aren’t swaying any falsely developed opinions from the pitchfork sheepmob and also because anyone who investigates your writing isn’t going to find anything to be concerned about, at least not over the past 3-4 years. I’d say you’ll be given some rope for your earlier years when you were learning how to write and were a young buck just ripping pop country a new asshole.
March 31, 2018 @ 9:46 am
Yeah, that’s not going to happen. There is no better news aggregator, and it is also the connection point for tens of thousands of Saving Country Music readers. Also just to clarify, I don’t know that I’ve written more than one article defending myself against stuff that’s happened on Twitter. It’s not the format, but who is saying it that’s important. Integrity is important in journalism. You can’t just have people out there saying you’re a racist or rape women in your workplace without defending yourself, or to many in the public, it becomes the truth, whether it’s true or not.
March 31, 2018 @ 10:52 am
If somebody called me a racist or a rapist, or whatever, I’d egg them on, because they are effing imbeciles of sub-normal intelligence, who don’t deserve the respect of being taken seriously.
By defending yourself, you make them credible.
You basically say, “You’ve just called me a racist, and that’s a valid point, but let me explain why I’m not a racist.”
March 29, 2018 @ 4:26 pm
It is always someone’s else fault. Or the Man. After all, he killed Bambi’s mother.
March 29, 2018 @ 4:43 pm
Lol is Kacey still making music? She should have given it up years ago. Poor thing has minimal talent when it comes to singing and songwriting. I guess she needs to say something controversial to stay relevant.
March 29, 2018 @ 4:57 pm
Trigger,
Don’t be so hard on yourself. You will get ulcers. Or maybe more of them than you have now.
March 29, 2018 @ 4:59 pm
George Michael was fucking Amazing.
March 30, 2018 @ 8:14 am
I loved how when they stopped playing his music on the radio he faked his death then killed Eric Church and took over his identity so he could get back in the spotlight. He obviously didn’t want to change his look, though.
March 29, 2018 @ 6:18 pm
Women do have higher standards. Hate or love them they have to know how to decent live or know how to play guitar to have career. The men on the other hand. Women should not be expected to be perfect. She is also gets tons of love and is critic darling including for trash such as High Horse. Not everything she says is genius and above criticism. The glasses is terrible example. Kacey gets away with dressing like Country Barbie. Dont care how she dresses. She is cute in her attire but lets be real its not her authetic self either. She only dresses that way to play up her beauty. If she was being honest she would admit that herself. I’m sure if Eric Church went on stage dressed similar to her criticism would be very harsh for him.
March 29, 2018 @ 6:20 pm
I mean “authentic”.
March 30, 2018 @ 8:19 am
I wholeheartedly agree with your last sentence. Although the country music community, like most corners of society, is more tolerant of alternative lifestyles than it used to be, I don’t think Eric Church would be well received if he took the stage wearing a dress.
March 29, 2018 @ 10:30 pm
She wears practically nothing the secqunes on stage with a pair of white boots That’s her trade Mark so leave Eric alone. She should go follow he arrow!
March 29, 2018 @ 10:48 pm
Dear God, these 30+-year-old preteen girls are embarrassing.
March 29, 2018 @ 11:44 pm
I like Eric. I like Kacey, this new album aside. I always assumed he wore shades due to his crab eyes.
March 30, 2018 @ 12:07 am
Kacey, you’re beautiful. Run with that and spare us the feminist diatribe.
March 30, 2018 @ 6:18 am
Ulysses. Exactly! Now prepare to be called an insecure misogynistic member of the patriarchy by those who can’t help to spew feminist diatribes.
March 30, 2018 @ 12:08 am
this is what happens when you take the focus off the music and drag in all this other nonsense. what they’re wearing. how they carry themselves. who they voted for. yadda yadda yadda. i realize there’s an entertainment aspect to country music but honestly, i miss he days when i didn’t know what my favorite artists even looked like let alone what their twitter feed looked like etc etc etc. bring back celebrity mystique please.
March 30, 2018 @ 6:33 am
Both these people are so fucking boring that a remark about sunglasses gets attention. Welcome to Idiocracy.
March 30, 2018 @ 6:58 am
I do find this Q & A from the interview to be a bit maddening:
How do you feel about the rootsy traditionalism, a la Chris Stapleton, that has gotten so big?
This album is traditional with pop influences, in a way. I like that kind of thing. But one thing that I’ve been thinking about with the Americana movement being so strong, I feel like it can be a little … not sedentary, but one-dimensional? Though I love Americana and roots music, it feels like there’s a contest sometimes with how country or how traditionalist you can prove yourself to be.
A rootsy traditionalist. Is that what Stapleton is? In his music, I hear some traditional country, contemporary country, rock and roll, blues and southern soul. But I don’t hear contemporary pop. Is that what makes him a traditionalist? No pure pop?
As for Musgraves’ assertion that Americana/Roots music can be one dimensional seems a bit self serving. And my rebuttal to that would start with unofficial AMA spokesman Jim Lauderdale. Just take a look at the musical ground covered by him in the last 5 years alone (bluegrass, swampy blues rock, acoustic folk, soul, countrypolitan, contemporary Americana singer/songwriter, Texas country) . No contemporary pop, though.
March 30, 2018 @ 6:59 am
she was
March 30, 2018 @ 7:05 am
After reading all of her LSD garbage, she is a flake. Looks like a goofy gimmick with all the silly props. Pop . No country here.
March 30, 2018 @ 8:15 am
Who is stopping Musgrave from wearing sunglasses if she so desires? Why should it matter that Eric wears his because the lights hurt his eyes? Seems Musgrave is making an issue where one does not exist. Can we ask Blake to leave the ugly girlfriend at home when he performs!
March 30, 2018 @ 8:46 am
I like Kacey and I like Eric. This all feels like much ado about nothing.
March 30, 2018 @ 1:58 pm
eric church is always high, most of his songs are about smoking cheech and chong. musgraves got blowback for talking about weed, and if she wore mile high shades and was out of he rmind like willie, snoop dog and church it would probably be ‘trashy or unladylike.’ but if if she really wanted to diss church she shouldnt bring up the douhce goose and maverick sunglasses, but the fact that all his songs sound the same
March 30, 2018 @ 3:27 pm
Eric Church….Women want him and men want to be him!!!!!
March 30, 2018 @ 4:42 pm
No man wants to be Eric, especially not me!
September 25, 2018 @ 8:32 am
Two things: (1) You needed to specify that only women who live in a house on wheels want him. (2) What man would want to Eric Church? Only self-absorbed douchebags wear sunglasses during interviews and photo op’s, promote gun control, and write songs about liberal nut-jobs like Bruce Springsteen. Eric Church = Rebel without a clue.
March 30, 2018 @ 4:41 pm
Eric Church sucks. When is the last time that dude made an album that sounded like country music? Oh wait….he never did. He sent like one or two really solid songs to radio, “Love Your Love The Most”, and i cant remember the one because all his music sounds the same and is so forgettable. He’s a clown, and i will never understand why he sells so many albums and why so many people love his music…its incredibly generic and his voice is about as terrible as Brett Young’s.
On the other hand, Kacey needs to shut up. What is it lately with these female country artists bitching and complaining about everything. I swear its all for attention. Maren Morris opened her trashy hole about sexism, and now Kacey Musgraves is bitching about the same shit in other words. Not very country if you ask me, pretty classless actually. This is the type of crap you expect from pop artists, but not from “country” artists…
March 30, 2018 @ 6:52 pm
“Sinners Like Me” is a really good contemporary Country Album. BUT it was before Flake Shelton did that stupid Hillbilly Bone song and ruined Country Music.
this was back when Trent Tomlinson and Steve Holy were on Country Radio.
not the worst times but a lot better than the meatheads of the 2010s. “These Boots” was a song I liked as early as 11 or 12.
March 30, 2018 @ 5:01 pm
Eric Church…The Most Interesting Man In The World…..Does country music have to be your narrow definition? Things evolve. I keep reading about Cody Jinks here. My local country station plays him. He is by no means COUNTRY IMO. But glad he is being played….where else would he fit? Stapleton is not Country. Glad Country has a wide umbrella. If you want to hear Twitty, Jones, Haggard all the time, you can do that.
March 31, 2018 @ 5:46 am
Cody Jinks isn’t Country Music?
you’re way off, I say you’re way off this time son.
It is Luke Bryan and Sam Hunt who aren’t Country.
I’d love to listen to Haggard, Jones and Twitty.
But guess what?
I can’t because a whole bunch of clowns decided to take over Country Radio and play pop artist and told me if I didn’t like it I didn’t need to listen.
So kindly take your POP music somewhere else.
Cody Jinks has recorded more Country songs than Puke Bryan, Sham Hunt, Flake Shelton and Jason Al-“hasn’t read a book since highschool”-dean Tyler Farr and Thomas Rhett combined.
but what do I know, I only started listening to Country Music when I heard it on Hee Haw and saw Porter Wagoner before his tv show got moved to Opryland when Tom T. Hall hosted Pop Goes the Country.
It’s not like I have decades worth of experience with this music, or anything.
April 3, 2018 @ 2:49 pm
Cody Jinks isn’t Country? That is the funniest comment I have seen on here in months. Cody Jinks is pretty legit Honky Tonk Country. Are the more authentic, but let’s not split hairs. Cody is country.
April 3, 2018 @ 3:32 pm
IMO, I don’t think he is Country in the way all these people mourning the past see Country. Everybody is complaining about what is played on radio now. They want very traditional stuff. I don’t remember from growing up in the 70s hearing very much that sounded like Cody Jinks. His music is masculine and has a hard edge to me. I like it very much and think it fits well on country stations. I just don’t think it is traditional even if others like it better than Bryan, Aldean, Church etc.
March 31, 2018 @ 6:19 am
If you want to complain about issues, at least complain about issues that actually exist. I feel similarly about “Pay Gap” by Margo Price.
March 31, 2018 @ 8:22 pm
Kacey is a talentless airhead. Eric is a pretentious prick. And both make shit music.
September 25, 2018 @ 8:13 am
Nailed it.
March 31, 2018 @ 9:18 pm
I like Jones, Haggard and Twitty and my country station plays them every night. It is Country Gold-Oldies Music. Cody Jinks is “country-ish” but to me, nothing like the aforementioned Jones, Haggard, Twitty etc. Who is stopping anyone from listening to those guys? It seems like some people have never had a day of fun in their whole lives. Hillbilly Bone is FUN! The anger and name calling is amusing over such a trivial topic in the scheme of things. Long live Eric Church aka Country Music Jesus. (Just had to throw that in there-great song BTW).
April 1, 2018 @ 12:23 pm
Luke Bryan is stopping people from listening every time one of his POP songs is on Country radio. if they play Luke Bryan three times in a day that’s three times less that somebody gets to listen to Twitty, George Strait, or Don Walser.
April 1, 2018 @ 2:31 pm
Omg can you chill. All you do is complain about everything. You’re like a crazy social justice country music warrior.
April 2, 2018 @ 12:03 pm
I complain about it, and I intend to continue complaining about it.
the same way I’d complain if somebody rearranged the furniture in my house and told me to move out if I didn’t like it.
April 1, 2018 @ 9:05 pm
LOL about the Social Justice Country Music Warrior. I am mad too. Every time I turn the radio to a pop station and hear Ed Sheeran or Katy Perry, that is more time taken away from the Everly Brothers and Chubby Checker or even Hootie and the Blowfish. I wish Ed and Katy and all the rest would just go away.
April 2, 2018 @ 12:06 pm
I realiz that this is sarcasm but it’s very accurate.
Ed Sheeran is an okay singer but nowhere near the level of Sammy Davis, Tony Bennett, and other pop singers.
Katy Perry is kind of like a fungus that grows in the corner of your shower.
music isn’t an industry for dancers and Levi Strauss models and people who can’t play sports.
it’s the “music” industry. Meaning by defenition it requires musicians.
But all the fans of these so called artists seem to live in a world where truck drivers do their plumbing and they sit on tvs at the table instead of on chairs, because apparently everything means something else in their world
April 3, 2018 @ 7:31 am
Tony Bennett is boring as fuck to me. YMMV. Liked “The Candyman” though. Likewise, as for technically great voices, you will have to look to opera I suppose. Boring as fuck but appreciate the talent. I do like some songs by Katy Perry but would never pay for any of them or see her live. I don’t measure music by a technically great voice. I grade it on whether it speaks to me or is just plain fun. Artists no longer make a lot of money on sales of albums. Songwriting and tours are where its at. They have to be entertainers as well. It’s a total package now. Ask Tom Jones who has made tons of money. His vocal advisors told him he was wasting his gift on pop cover songs but he loved what he loved. Saw him in concert and loved it. As for Eric Church, he is probably the only singer in any genre that I would pay money to see in person. I have watched extensively his concerts on youtube and they are high energy and 3 hours long. Like him or not, his joy of performing shines through. His acoustic concert where the whole band was down for the count and he still went onstage was amazing. He does have enormous talent and the performance was amazing.
April 3, 2018 @ 2:12 pm
Love Kacey… But Kacey needs to grow up. Don’t know who bitches more? Kacey Musgraves or Margo. You don’t hear Sunny bitching….
April 3, 2018 @ 3:54 pm
Never liked any of her music anyway and after she did what she did to Miranda (she can make excuses), she’s never been worthy of respect. And now going after Eric, who I love, that’s too much. Eric is a great artist and overall great guy. Anyone who criticizes him needs to look at thereselves. Idiots.
My boy Eric is the real deal ya’ll.
September 25, 2018 @ 8:09 am
Musgraves is another leftist social justice warrior that has infiltrated Nashville. Shut up with ll the feminist crap. Eric Church says. “If I’m not on stage, I usually don’t wear them” – Liar. 99% of time when he does an interview or photo op’s he’s wearing them. Only self-absorbed douchebags wear sunglasses indoors.
April 8, 2019 @ 7:51 am
Miusgrave and all other country and pop female stars: you have money, fame, and adoration of your fans. Still many of you start in on how unfair the world is to you and to women. You are young and haven’t had any really tough times. Some are very thankful for their good fortune. That’s you, Dolly. Others just never seem to stop the ranting and raving. I’m all for pointing out and fighting all the injustice in the world. There is plenty of it. However, Eric Church wearing sunglasses and getting no criticism cannot be taken seriously as an injustice to anyone.
April 8, 2019 @ 4:55 pm
Eric Church has his reasons for wearing his sunglasses. Don’t think for one minute that he has never gotten flack about it. The difference between EFC and Musgraves is he doesn’t care what anyone, especially the industry, thinks about him. He cares about the songs he writes and his fans. That’s it!! Maybe Miss Musgraves should take a page from his book and just concentrate on making her music and being true to herself and not caring what anyone else thinks of her in the first place. That’s what Eric does all the while not whining about those who do!!!!
July 7, 2021 @ 6:31 am
Yeah,Kacey,and DECUPLE (ten times) the double standard for black male Country singers,especially if they’re handsome .
September 17, 2022 @ 11:29 am
If she looked into her comments at all, she would know that Eric wears glasses to keep his contacts from drying out.