<![CDATA[Idolator Live-Blogs The CMA Awards: This Should Be Quite The Carnival Ride - Gawker Comments]]> <![CDATA[Idolator Live-Blogs The CMA Awards: This Should Be Quite The Carnival Ride - Gawker Comments]]> <![CDATA[Idolator Live-Blogs The CMA Awards: This Should Be Quite The Carnival Ride]]> Yeah I think I voted against covering this but I'm glad I was outvoted, this was definitely one of the better liveblogs on here to date.

Al Shipley

]]> <![CDATA[Idolator Live-Blogs The CMA Awards: This Should Be Quite The Carnival Ride]]> Maura, we -- or at least ME -- were not worthy...

Excellent job, and I am not surprised to say that...

I enjoyed watching and commenting along with you and the other Idolatees...

Rob Murphy

]]> <![CDATA[Idolator Live-Blogs The CMA Awards: This Should Be Quite The Carnival Ride]]> maura your entertaining sacrifice so that i could finish this freelance work (that my lazy ass has been sitting on for months) will not be forgotten.

Jess Harvell

]]> <![CDATA[Idolator Live-Blogs The CMA Awards: This Should Be Quite The Carnival Ride]]> Is it just me, or have two of the biggest ovations of the nite gone to the Dixie Chicks and...JAMIE FOXX???

Does this mean the terrorists have won?

Rob Murphy

]]> <![CDATA[Idolator Live-Blogs The CMA Awards: This Should Be Quite The Carnival Ride]]> Things you need to know:
1. The sound at that arena is the worst of almost any venue I've ever been in.
2. If you don't thank country radio, you don't get played on country radio.

Chris N.

]]> <![CDATA[Idolator Live-Blogs The CMA Awards: This Should Be Quite The Carnival Ride]]> Maura, your liveblog is at least twice as compelling as Gossip Girl was tonight. And it was a good episode!

Kate Richardson

]]> <![CDATA[Idolator Live-Blogs The CMA Awards: This Should Be Quite The Carnival Ride]]> Brad Paisley just thanked ASCAP!

saturn

]]> <![CDATA[Idolator Live-Blogs The CMA Awards: This Should Be Quite The Carnival Ride]]> Kellie Pickler's transformation into Lorrie Morgan is nearly complete. She gives a performance of "I Wonder" that is better than the one she gave American Idol viewers back on 1 March -- or so I was ready to say until she broke down in tears at the end.

At least she kept her "new shoes" in the, er, closet, tonite.

Rob Murphy

]]> <![CDATA[Idolator Live-Blogs The CMA Awards: This Should Be Quite The Carnival Ride]]> Kelli Pickler is aweome! I'm crying. But Kenny Chesney was not impressed.

saturn

]]> <![CDATA[Idolator Live-Blogs The CMA Awards: This Should Be Quite The Carnival Ride]]> Carrie Underwood wins her second consecutive "Female Vocalist Of The Year" award. Thank goodness the director had the foresight to cut away from Reba McEntire backstage before she could get all Faith Hill '06 up in our grillz and sh!t

Rob Murphy

]]> <![CDATA[Idolator Live-Blogs The CMA Awards: This Should Be Quite The Carnival Ride]]> "I'm so proud to be in this format."

saturn

]]> <![CDATA[Idolator Live-Blogs The CMA Awards: This Should Be Quite The Carnival Ride]]> I thought Dirks Bently was a band.

saturn

]]> <![CDATA[Idolator Live-Blogs The CMA Awards: This Should Be Quite The Carnival Ride]]> @saturn: Generational warfare: It never ends!

Maura Johnston

]]> <![CDATA[Idolator Live-Blogs The CMA Awards: This Should Be Quite The Carnival Ride]]> "more powerful than ever 30 years into her career"?
"the woman who won the Horizon award 10 years ago"?
I feel a weird "you're old and I'm not" vibe.

saturn

]]> <![CDATA[Idolator Live-Blogs The CMA Awards: This Should Be Quite The Carnival Ride]]> Taylor Swift gets off the best line of the nite: "This is definitely the highlight of my Senior year!" She even manages to make LeAnn Freakin' Rimes feel old!!!

That line is LEGEN...wait for it...DARY!!!

Rob Murphy

]]> <![CDATA[Idolator Live-Blogs The CMA Awards: This Should Be Quite The Carnival Ride]]> what happened to the chevy horizon? do they still make them?

saturn

]]> <![CDATA[Idolator Live-Blogs The CMA Awards: This Should Be Quite The Carnival Ride]]> @Jeff: Once again, country music is a few years behind-the-curve..."Here are Brooks & Dunn, performing 'Where Is The Love '07'!!!..."

Rob Murphy

]]> <![CDATA[Idolator Live-Blogs The CMA Awards: This Should Be Quite The Carnival Ride]]> I actually really like this Brooks and Dunn song. But calling out the Bloods and Crips? A bit much.

Jeff

]]> <![CDATA[Idolator Live-Blogs The CMA Awards: This Should Be Quite The Carnival Ride]]> @9:00 PM: WTF was up with that dress??? WOW!

Rob Murphy

]]> <![CDATA[Idolator Live-Blogs The CMA Awards: This Should Be Quite The Carnival Ride]]> 8:59 p.m A child's toy that has a date-rape drug... inside? God bless local news

shades of dan ackroyd as irwin mainway here.

Jess Harvell

]]> <![CDATA[Idolator Live-Blogs The CMA Awards: This Should Be Quite The Carnival Ride]]> Not surprised that the Dixie chicks didn't win the Group honor, but pleasantly surprised at the strength of the ovation they got when their nomination was announced.

Rob Murphy

]]> <![CDATA[Idolator Live-Blogs The CMA Awards: This Should Be Quite The Carnival Ride]]> I LURVS me some Alison Krauss, but even I have to acknowledge that her gaudy Grammy numbers are due at least in part to the fact that she's always nominated in the "Bluegrass" categories, where, ahem, there's not much competition. If she had to go against Martina, Faith, Carrie, etc., every year, the story might be different.

Just sayin'.

Rob Murphy

]]> <![CDATA[Idolator Live-Blogs The CMA Awards: This Should Be Quite The Carnival Ride]]> Brad Paisley looks like Chris Carabba with a cowboy hat on.

Jeff

]]> <![CDATA[Idolator Live-Blogs The CMA Awards: This Should Be Quite The Carnival Ride]]> @8:07 PM: Agreed, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend is criminally underbought.

@8:08 PM: In Sheryl's defense, she is from Kennett, Mizzurah, and everytime I've heard her in an interview, she has had that twang in her voice...

Rob Murphy

]]> <![CDATA[Idolator Live-Blogs The CMA Awards: This Should Be Quite The Carnival Ride]]> This 17 year old chick canNOT sing. A friend of mine is in one of tonight's multi-nominated acts tells me most of these performers are of course not playing or singing live. Sugarland apparently kinda freaks them out backstage by insisting on doing it all fer real.

joshgibson

]]> <![CDATA[Idolator Live-Blogs The CMA Awards: This Should Be Quite The Carnival Ride]]> just a shoutout - nobody else i care about was liveblogging so i'm with ya.

joshgibson

]]> <![CDATA[Idolator Live-Blogs The CMA Awards: This Should Be Quite The Carnival Ride]]> though i'm at a bit of a loss as regards following along since i've been banned from watching country music television at home.

Jess Harvell

]]> <![CDATA[Idolator Live-Blogs The CMA Awards: This Should Be Quite The Carnival Ride]]> i'm going to be sad if y'all ignore this because it's country. c'mon people.

Jess Harvell

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