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43rd Annual ACM Awards Wrap-Up
Best performance: Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood, “Make the World Go Away.” Carrie Underwood sounded awful in her show-opening performance of “Last Name” but has never sounded more beautiful than in this tribute to Eddy Arnold. Major award shows too often fail to even acknowledge the passing of exceptionally talented and influential legends, and when they do it is usually hurried or even insulting. This tribute to Arnold is the most tasteful and touching that I’ve ever seen at an awards show and was the highlight of the three-hour broadcast. While I’ve argued this ad nauseam, this performance also provided more evidence that Carrie Underwood’s exceptional talent was criminally wasted by the material that she recorded on Carnival Ride.
Among the other performances, I was surprised to conclude that the best was Brooks and Dunn’s “Put a Girl in It.” It’s not a good song, but I thought that it sounded better (with the exception of the Arnold tribute) than any other performance that night, and Reba’s appearance was entertaining, even if it only served to demonstrate how much better she is than almost everyone that took the stage on Sunday night. Kenny Chesney’s “Better As a Memory” was also surprisingly passable, while Trace Adkins’ “You’re Gonna Miss This” was flawless but forgettable.
Worst performance: Taylor Swift, “Should’ve Said No.” Taylor’s performance was far from the worst vocally, but that was because it was almost certainly lip-synched. However, the fact that it managed to top both the Sugarland and Keith Urban performances in terms of obnoxiousness is impressive enough to earn it worst performance honors. I didn’t pick up on it during the live blog, but apparently the tear off the hoodie and stand in a waterfall routine was ripped off from one of Spears’ performances, so Swift’s performance was obnoxious and uncreative.
Best voter decision: Album of the Year. Even Miranda Lambert let loose a “holy shit!” as she made her way to the stage after a surprise win for album of the year. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend was the darling of the cross-genre critics, and the ACM’s rare agreement is evidence that Crazy Ex-Girlfriend is truly outstanding work. Lambert’s win demonstrated a refreshing lack of deference to the radio juggernauts in an awards ceremony that otherwise awarded the usual winners.
Worst voter decision: Top Vocal Duo. For the past several Brooks & Dunn have won this award undeservedly at both the ACMs and CMAs. After finally relinquishing their vocal duo crown at the CMAs, B&D earned the surprise win at the ACMs despite not being nominated in any other category and placing only one song (“Proud of the House We Built”) within the top ten in the past year. I suspect that most voters who chose “Stay” for single and song of the year also voted for Sugarland in this category, with most of the rest of the voters breaking for the old favorites, but I’m surprised that Montgomery Gentry didn’t siphon off enough votes to give Sugarland the plurality. Had Big & Rich issued a successful follow-up to “Lost in this Moment,” they likely would have earned enough votes to create a Sugarland win.
Sound mixing: I always hear loud complaints about awards show sound mixing and I’ve even complained about it myself. When I attended the CMA Awards in 2006, it sounded awful (though the show was in its first year at the Sommet Center, then the Gaylord Entertainer Center, and they had more of a volume problem than a mixing problem). I’ve heard the same complaints about this year’s ACMs, on our site and others.
This is puzzling given that almost all of the instrumental tracks are pre-recorded and some performances are lip-synched, so there’s no reason why the audio shouldn’t be well mixed. This year, I watched the show in an AV room with professional sound system and the volume turned way up (a first for me), and I didn’t think that the mixing sounded half bad. I had no difficult understanding any of the vocals and if anything, I thought that the instruments were undermixed, which seems to be the opposite of most viewers’ opinions.
I suspect that most of the complaints about sound mixing are due to the inherent difficulty of making live music sound good on standard television audio. As more and more viewers acquire home theater systems, I (and the networks) must take these concerns more seriously, but, as these setups are of nonuniform quality and allow for significant adjustment of audio levels by the user (who may or may not make said adjustments competently), it becomes even harder to make an audio mix that will satisfy everyone. For perhaps the first time, I’m not inclined to complain about the sound at an awards show.
On medleys: I generally don’t enjoy the medley format. To be effective, they must be carefully planned (not simply used to fit in all the cast-offs that didn’t make the main set list) and occupy a significant amount of time (a three minute medley doesn’t work, unless it’s a medley of only two songs).
Rodney Atkins’ medley was poorly conceived because an artist who has released only one studio album (of any commercial significance) should not be performing “a medley of hits.” What’s more, Atkins’ vocal performance was atrocious. By the medley’s end, I found myself asking how Atkins’ scored four straight number one hits and how he sang well enough to land a recording contract in the first place.
Garth Brooks suffered a shaky start to his medley as he flubbed the lyrics to “The Thunder Rolls,” but he soon regained his footing and staged a fantastic performance that proves he’s lost little since his mega-entertainer days. I support the use of the medley format by Brooks, but it would have been much more effective had it included half as many songs or lasted twice as long: fifteen second cuts just don’t do justice to the highly narrative and visual songs that highlight Brooks’ catalog.
Most significantly, Garth Brooks’ post-retirement performances have lost their uniqueness. It didn’t feel special because it’s what Garth is doing these days: dropping in everywhere and asking “remember me?” without giving fans anything concrete to hold on to or any hope for future productivity.
Single debuts: The worst in recent memory. Keith Urban’s performance of “Tu Compania” was positively jubilant, and I found the song to be a good deal more sophisticated than Sarah Buxton’s beatboxing suggested. However, Keith could not make it more obvious that he’s no longer concerned with making country music. I wouldn’t mind seeing this song on the charts, but I’d rather not see it on the country charts (though I suspect that we will). Conversely, the “ohohohohohoh’s” that comprise the chorus of Sugarland’s “All I Wanna Do” combine with generally vapid verses to make what is perhaps the most annoying country single that I’ve ever heard. Kellie Pickler never sounded comfortable in her performance of “Don’t You Know You’re Beautiful,” so I’ll have to reserve judgment until I’ve heard the radio edit several times.
Check out Brady’s discussion of Kenny Chesney’s complaints about the fan-voted entertainer of the year award for analysis of the night’s biggest honor.
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May 20, 2008 at 3:29 pm Permalink
You will not hear Tu Compania on the radio! Keith stated in several radio interviews before the award show that he was just performing that song for fun!! I loved the song and would love to hear it on radio! Sounded a lot better than Shift Work (YUK)or for that matter anything Rascal Flatts puts out!! But I’m with you on Sarah Buxton….could have done without her!
May 20, 2008 at 3:55 pm Permalink
I loved Carrie on Last Name. She sounded great and for once showed personality on stage. Looked good as well. It was cool and the audience seemed to enjoy it. Was called “inspired” the LA times.
Agree wholeheartedly on Taylor. Gosh, she just needs to head over to pop music.
May 20, 2008 at 4:43 pm Permalink
On of my favorite moments of the night, was when Miranda let go of her “holy shit” when she won — because her album is good, and it is as she said “left of center” - which means maybe just maybe we will hear more of her on the radio (i can dream right???)
May 20, 2008 at 4:47 pm Permalink
I agree with the opening act performance, it was bad.
I think Underwood just has zero charisma and looks manufactured.
She just doesn’t have much of a stage persona and she can’t command the stage.
That was her weakness on idol too and she hasn’t overcome it. She just has no charima on stage.
May 20, 2008 at 5:16 pm Permalink
Easily one of the worst ACM awards shows ever telecast. I was almost embarassed to be a fan of Country Music.
May 20, 2008 at 5:35 pm Permalink
Why hasn’t anyone mentioned Sugarland’s embarassing performance yet? What the heck was that about? Performing a pandering Pop song on a Country awards show has been tried numerous times before with little success.
May 20, 2008 at 5:37 pm Permalink
As for the sound issue I would surmise Matt that you were viewing a high definition CBS channel feed from either a cable or satellite service. The digital sound signal that accompanies high def channels always sounds much better than the analog signals sent with the standard definition “over the air” broadcast signals from the major networks. I know the difference is night and day on my home theater system. With that said I still found it difficult to understand the words to the song performed by LeAnn Rimes….
I got a kick out of watching Sarah Buxton doing the beatboxing behind Keith Urban just for the fact she got to perform in some capacity! I’m not a big Keith fan but really enjoyed the song he performed country or not. It was just plain fun…
May 20, 2008 at 6:13 pm Permalink
I don’t mean to blaspheme, but I think the performance of “Make the World Go Away” is being way overrated. I’ll agree that it was easily one of the better ones of the night, but to say Carrie’s never sounded better is sort of overstepping it for me. Her voice held together fine but sounded unusually thin to my ears, and her vibrato made her sound more classical than country. I know she has potential (”San Antonio Rose” at the Grammys really was something), but last night I think she just looked great by comparison.
I also find it odd that you implied that the Keith Urban performance was obnoxious and then called it “jubilant.”
But these are quibbles; I agree with everything else you’ve written here wholeheartedly.
May 20, 2008 at 6:32 pm Permalink
Blasphemy!
May 20, 2008 at 6:58 pm Permalink
Dan, you are walking on thin ice here as Matt C. is a devoted worshipper of the golden haired “Goddess Carrie” and her dulcet tones that descend upon the ears of us mere mortals from the heights of Mount Olympus…..
(As if I haven’t annoyed Matt enough already…)
May 20, 2008 at 7:07 pm Permalink
That new Sugarland song is awful! I liked Carrie and Brad singing Make The World Go Away, and that was about it. I didn’t think many performances sounded very good or were entertaining. Sarah Buxton looked like some crazy fan that grabbed a microphone, especially since no one mentioned her before or after the performance. I read that Keith is going to release a song from an album he put out six years ago! I guess he won’t be putting out any new music for a while. Better to put that song out than that sappy new song he sang at the Opry. I think he needs to get someone else to write songs for him these days, he’s not coming up with good stuff.
May 20, 2008 at 7:11 pm Permalink
i don’t think you can straight out say Keith Urban’s preformance was obnoxious. It wasn’t particularly good, but obnoxious is a stretch.
May 20, 2008 at 7:12 pm Permalink
Sheesh, I seem to remember everyone singing quite aa different tune concerning my opinion of Carrie Underwood after my review of Carnival Ride and a certain article that I published a few months ago…
Re: “Make the World Go Away.” I agree that the contrast between it and “Last Name” is stark, but I still think it’s an exceptional performance. I think that “Make the, World Go Away” (ACMs), “San Antonio Rose” (Grammys), and “Stand by Your Man” (Grand Ole Opry) represent Carrie’s three best vocal performances (including studio tracks), but I’d have trouble putting them in order. After that, we get into studio performances, of which I think “Before He Cheats” is the best.
May 20, 2008 at 7:14 pm Permalink
I thought that Buxton’s beatboxing was obnoxious, and that made the entire thing rather obnoxious. As for Keith’s performance, I thought that it was outstanding and I enjoyed watching him, and that why I called it “jubilant.”
May 20, 2008 at 7:26 pm Permalink
courtney, do you know what song it is? “your not my God” from his Golden Road album would make sense
May 20, 2008 at 7:27 pm Permalink
“I think that “Make the, World Go Away” (ACMs), “San Antonio Rose” (Grammys), and “Stand by Your Man” (Grand Ole Opry) represent Carrie’s three best vocal performances”
I would add her Opry performance of “How Great Thou Art” to that list.
May 20, 2008 at 7:35 pm Permalink
Glad I’m not the only one who couldn’t stand the Sugerland song. Talk about annoying. I thought most of the performances sounded pretty bad. Brad Paisley couldn’t seem to carry a tune at all, Rodney Atkins was beyond bad & I had no idea what Leann Rimes was saying. I did like the Brooks & Dunn song & really enjoyed the Keith Urban song. He said he was doing this song “just for the fun of it”. Glad to see somebody doing a song “for the fun of it” and not because they’re trying to promote something.
In response to Courtney, he’s releasing a song from Golden Road again for the fun of it. The song he’s releasing is one of his most requested songs so he re-recorded it for the fans.
And as much as I like Brooks & Dunn, I was VERY surprised with their win.
May 20, 2008 at 7:38 pm Permalink
Jacob, the song Keith Urban is releasing is You Look Good in My Shirt. A HUGE crowd favorite at his concerts. He said in a radio interview before the awards that he re-recorded it after finishing up the tour.
May 20, 2008 at 7:42 pm Permalink
I’ve always like that song, though I’d rather that he came out with a new album and I could just continue to listen to the version I already have.
May 20, 2008 at 8:24 pm Permalink
I pretty much agree with everyone here. I couldn’t stand Sugarland’s song, had no idea what Leann was singing. I did like Garth alot, Taylor Swift sucked, I couldn’t believe Brooks and Dunn won over Sugarland, and I thought Kellie Pickler’s performance was good but it seemed like the sound was off or something.
The only thing I didn’t agree with was what you said about Trace Adkins. Yes, it was flawless, but nothing that man does is forgettable!!!! He is so amazing!!
May 20, 2008 at 9:20 pm Permalink
I thought that Carrie’s “How Great Thou Art” was oversung. You can hear the strain in her voice.
May 20, 2008 at 10:31 pm Permalink
people only seem content with Carrie when she is singing good little country songs from over 4 decades ago. oh, and not singing anything resembling cool. great job! hope she never decides to hire you as manager, matt. she’d be playing coffee bars in no time flat.
May 20, 2008 at 10:35 pm Permalink
Carrie is best when singing country/pop/ 80’s rock. Her voice and stage persona is at her best. Listen to her do anything by Guns and Roses, Alone by Heart, etc.
May 21, 2008 at 12:36 am Permalink
Matt C,
Do you even like 99% of what is played/released these days. I generally don’t mind negativity at all (it generates great conversation/brings in artist defenders) but it seems to me that you generally disliked this award show and the artists on it. I love traditional country as much as the next person but I also like a lot of what contemporary country has to offer. So when I read this I wonder, “why bother?”
May 21, 2008 at 12:37 am Permalink
On a side note, I agree with the Rodney Atkins thing. they should’ve let him sing ONE song. As for his vocals, he does have good vocals, usually. Perhaps this medley did him in.
May 21, 2008 at 1:12 am Permalink
No, I don’t like 99% of what is released to radio these days, I like about 50%. However, I believe that even the 50% that I don’t like is vastly better than everything played on rap/hip hop radio and most everything played on Top 40 or rock radio.
I do write a lot of negative things on this site but I also write a lot of positive things and I hope that readers can recognize my genuine enthuiasm about great artists, songs and albums. When I’m negative, it’s because I have high standards for a genre that I think is historically and currently great. If I didn’t like contemporary mainstream country music, I wouldn’t bother writing about it (I hate rap music, but am not about to start a blog that criticizes it).
May 21, 2008 at 5:20 am Permalink
“I do write a lot of negative things on this site but I also write a lot of positive things and I hope that readers can recognize my genuine enthuiasm about
great artists, songs and albums. When I’m negative, it’s because I have high standards for a genre that I think is historically and currently great. If
I didn’t like contemporary mainstream country music, I wouldn’t bother writing about it (I hate rap music, but am not about to start a blog that criticizes
it).”
Matt, I think that’s a very fair and thoughtful argument. That’s how I feel about the genre too. I love it, so I expect greatness from it. It would be nice to just love everything that I hear from radio (and I still like a fair amount of it), but if I love everything, there wouldn’t be much opportunity for excitement when something truly good happens.
Great overview/review of the show. I pretty much agree with most of your assertions, though perhaps disagree with a few of the finer points.
There’s no doubt that the show experienced some pitfalls, but I certainly don’t feel it was a waste of time for me to watch it.
For the record, I absolutely loved the Eddie Arnold tribute! As Matt said, it was probably one of the best tributes that I’ve seen on a country music award show. Not only did I love Carrie and Brad’s respectful performance, I loved the clip of Arnold that they played. It expertly set the mood and surely reminded everyone who cared that we lost someone with great class.
May 21, 2008 at 5:21 am Permalink
PS. I, do, like some rap music though.:)
May 21, 2008 at 7:33 am Permalink
Buxton’s background beat-boxing was only slightly more annoying than her smiling/gyrating as she did it in the background during the performance. she looked like a hopped-up fan that just happen to sneak into the performance area past the security….
May 21, 2008 at 7:43 am Permalink
Kelly, smiling and gyrating are annoying?
May 21, 2008 at 7:49 am Permalink
good point! But even in her case, it was annoying in that instance. Maybe I wouldnt have felt that way if she were just truly a background singer, but she is better than that….btw, if it had just been gyrating, I wouldve been fine, that smile was Joker-like…..
May 21, 2008 at 8:40 am Permalink
I was just joshin’ you, Kelly. I do think more women need to smile on their album covers, though.
May 21, 2008 at 9:17 am Permalink
Why don’t we take the blame for crappy sound off the backs of the mixers and place on the backs of the singers who don’t sing well to begin with. When the microphones cut out on Martina at the Opry she still sang georgously and one of my favorite new rock singers, Will Hodge, sings off mic at nearly every show and sounds good. A mixer is only as good as the ingredients that goes into it, and when the milk is curdled the mix is going to be sour.
May 21, 2008 at 9:24 am Permalink
Yeah, that Julianne Hough cover is lovely.
May 21, 2008 at 10:06 am Permalink
Anna said: “Carrie is best when singing country/pop/ 80’s rock. Her voice and stage persona is at her best. Listen to her do anything by Guns and Roses, Alone by Heart, etc.
”
Then why is she marketing herself as a country singer? If she wants to sing pop and 80s rock, fine. Just don’t call it country.
May 21, 2008 at 10:10 am Permalink
Matt,
Thanks for articulating your thoughts. I knew you liked certain artists. Just wanted ‘further info’ about why this was so negative. Like anyone, you’re allowed to be critical of the genre we all love. It’s why we write about it. Why ‘praise’ all the time if they don’t deserve it. I guess my original questioning post was simply because I enjoyed the show for what it was, particularly since it’s the ACM awards. Now the CMA’s, that’s a different beast altogether.
May 21, 2008 at 12:19 pm Permalink
Chris N,
all you do is comment on their looks! we don’t care if you think they look good, it’s supposed to be about their music! why do you always do that?
May 21, 2008 at 12:23 pm Permalink
yeah chris n., whddup wit’ dat?!?!?!
May 21, 2008 at 12:35 pm Permalink
WTF? Chris doesn’t always comment on looks.
I do have a question for you, though. Why can’t you stick with one name? Our records indicate that you’ve used jake, alex, john, bobby, jacob, and bob.
May 21, 2008 at 12:44 pm Permalink
i don’t want to give my real name out on the internet, so i switch it.
May 21, 2008 at 12:50 pm Permalink
yeah, identity theft on a single fake name is running rampant these days, I hear….
May 21, 2008 at 1:04 pm Permalink
I only meant it’s a striking album cover in a genre in which a lot of album covers are boring. It’s a good example of how to make a standard head shot interesting.
May 21, 2008 at 1:05 pm Permalink
Well try to stick to one fake name. There’s no point in using multiple fake identities unless you’re avoiding a negative reputation, which you seem to be trying to do by falsely calling Chris out under a fake name.
May 21, 2008 at 1:34 pm Permalink
razor, you are being incredibly silly. country is a wide genre, heck elvis was in his roots country, keith urban is considered country rock, all country is infused with more rock. Don’t say that its just Carrie. Thats simply naive and ridiculous. Your are not about to clear out all other artists who have a more “rock” sound. Rock and Roll is derivative from country music anyway.
May 21, 2008 at 1:52 pm Permalink
Anna said: “razor, you are being incredibly silly. country is a wide genre, heck elvis was in his roots country, keith urban is considered country rock, all country is infused with more rock. Don’t say that its just Carrie. Thats simply naive and ridiculous. Your are not about to clear out all other artists who have a more “rock” sound. Rock and Roll is derivative from country music anyway.”
I never said it was just Carrie. She’s just one example. Keith Urban isn’t country, either. Neither are Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw, Faith Hill, and many others.
You’re the one who said that Carrie is at her best when singing 80s rock and cited her Guns & Roses cover as an example. What is country about Guns & Roses? And if that is what Carrie does best, then she should stop calling herself a country singer. Allowing this kind of slop to be classified as country is destroying the entire genre.
May 21, 2008 at 3:30 pm Permalink
Some of you may have heard how much I loved Taylor Swift’s performance. Sure, technically it wasn’t great, but I loved the song and at least she tried to be interesting with her theatrics.
I like “Last Name” but found that Carrie really didn’t sing it as well as should could have. Her performance with Brad was much nicer on the ears, but it wasn’t my favorite of the night.
I’m not much of a Garth fan, but I have to say that I was pleasantly surprised with how well he did. I agree that the medley was poorly constructed though. I think Rodney Atkins should have sang “Invisibly Shaken” instead of doing a medley, and he sure didn’t have the best vocals.
Kenny’s singing of “Better as a Memory” was pretty good, but for the Entertainer of the Year, he wasn’t very entertaining. Shiftwork was of course a train wreck as usual.
I was shocked that Sugarland didn’t win Duo. I’m glad Shiftwork didn’t win Collaboration.
I agree that Brooks & Dunn did pretty well. I don’t mind Sugarland’s new single, but although it was performed well, it was far from my favorite.
May 21, 2008 at 5:44 pm Permalink
K-Man said: “Some of you may have heard how much I loved Taylor Swift’s performance. Sure, technically it wasn’t great, but I loved the song and at least she tried to be interesting with her theatrics.”
These kind of the theatrics detract from the music. Admittedly that might not be a bad thing in this case because both the song and the vocalist stunk to high heaven. How much more of this garbage are we going to have to endure before we can get this genre back on track? At this rate, we’re going to have to rebuild it from the ground up.
May 21, 2008 at 5:49 pm Permalink
K-man: Isn’t the SONG supposed to be interesting enough that you don’t need the Flashdance rip off?
May 21, 2008 at 7:23 pm Permalink
Stormy said: “K-man: Isn’t the SONG supposed to be interesting enough that you don’t need the Flashdance rip off?”
Thought it was a Britney Spears rip-off??
May 22, 2008 at 12:06 am Permalink
That Julianne Hough cover is interesting. The inside booklet pics are just as interesting and more ‘candid’ and ‘fun’ than most album covers, good on them.
May 22, 2008 at 10:52 am Permalink
Razor: Ripping off Brittany Spears who was ripping off Flashdance.
May 22, 2008 at 3:51 pm Permalink
I though Taylor had the best performance. Also, if you listen to her cd you would know it was not lip synced. As she didn’t carry out the full part. It look as if she was out of breathe with the me part in her song.
May 22, 2008 at 3:53 pm Permalink
The reason i thought Taylor did the best was she show emotion in her song and it progressed very well.
May 25, 2008 at 9:36 am Permalink
Stormy said: “Isn’t the SONG supposed to be interesting enough that you don’t need the Flashdance rip off?”
Yes, it would have been interesting enough with the “Flashdance rip-off”, but I’d rather see that than her standing like a statue for the whole performance.
May 28, 2008 at 8:39 pm Permalink
I think garth brooks did an awesome job!!!
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