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    11/12/09

    In reply to Country Music Proves It's Hip, It's Cool, It Watches MTV
    Did I miss the clip where Kanye assaulted Taylor Swift or were his 'uppity darkie' antics so offensive the country crowd STILL hasn't recovered? #kanyewest
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    11/12/09

    In reply to Country Music Proves It's Hip, It's Cool, It Watches MTV
    I gained a new appreciation for country music when I went to a bar in Nashville on karaoke night. My God do those people take music seriously. Every single person that sang was good, without exception. And they all got up on the bar and worked it like it was a stage and they were pros.

    It was impressive, compared to New York, where the best part of karaoke is the comedic aspect of it. #kanyewest
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    11/12/09

    @FitnessMadeSimple: It's like actors in LA - all of those folks that are singing karaoke in Nashville are aspiring singers. I've seen and heard some unreal singers when I've visited. I can sing decently, but would never, ever do karaoke in Nashville. #kanyewest
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    11/12/09

    @BowlingForDollars: Same here. I love karaoke, but I was terrified to follow those Nashville folks.

    This one dude...I think his name was Kenny Rose...had snakeskin boots, a cowboy hat, and a white button down with his name on the back in RHINESTONES. And he brought a mailing list with him. #kanyewest
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    11/12/09

    In reply to Country Music Proves It's Hip, It's Cool, It Watches MTV
    Taylor Swift's performance was cringe-inducing, off key and so awful. Was she lip-synching on SNL a week ago? #kanyewest
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    11/12/09

    In reply to Country Music Proves It's Hip, It's Cool, It Watches MTV
    Can we please stop feeling sorry for Taylor Swift now? #kanyewest
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    11/12/09

    In reply to Country Music Proves It's Hip, It's Cool, It Watches MTV
    Nashville represent! Say what you will about country music, I'm a fan of this awards show for two reasons: 1. The easily crashable afterparties go on all week and 2. These fuckers know how to DRINK. #kanyewest
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    11/12/09

    @Mrs. Beeton: and hoooray for Darius Rucker being new artist of the year (even though he isn't new, even to the country scene, but whatevs) yeah black folks! #kanyewest
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    11/12/09

    @tigolbitties: Every 40 years or so, they let a black man in the building. #kanyewest
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    11/12/09

    @topsy: Are there a lot of black men aspiring to be country singers? #kanyewest
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    11/12/09

    @ConAir34: Actually there are several black country singers; just because you don't know about them doesn't mean they don't exist. #kanyewest
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    11/12/09

    @topsy: Great. What is the problem then? Are they any good? Do they sell a lot of records.

    My wife is the country fan more so than me. #kanyewest
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    11/12/09

    In reply to Country Music Proves It's Hip, It's Cool, It Watches MTV
    I caught the latter part of the show and Taylor Swift also made an aside about it, when she picked-up "Female Vocalist", but it probably wasn't on her mind, when they named her "Entertainer of the Year".

    Though it was obviously her year and for any of the other nominees to get EotY would have been prejudice against her or her music, I actually think Kanye most likely helped guarantee Miss Swift their top award.
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    11/12/09

    In reply to Country Music Proves It's Hip, It's Cool, It Watches MTV
    I've said it before, and I'll say it again - if I may: this shit ain't country.

    It's pop music for white trash. Country really started to die in the late 70s with the likes of Kenny Rogers. These are just a bunch of frosted-tipped, auto-tune twits. Rascal Flats? c'mon! #kanyewest
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    11/12/09

    @kafkask: What of Merle and Willie, and Hank III? And Lucinda Williams, Dale Watson, and Patty Booker? Country isn't dead. It just smells that way.
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    11/12/09

    @kafkask: "Are you sure Hank done it thisaway?" asked Waylon, about them flashy speckled birds hopping across the stage like they boots wuz too tight.

    Country was the background to old boys allowed to cry into their beers late at night about failed responsibilities over too many olden days, and homebound womens puttin' on powder and paint in revenge. It was all about a missed bus, is all, and now it's time to sweep up. #kanyewest
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    11/12/09

    @BadUncle: "Country isn't dead. It just smells that way."

    From U-Turn:

    Jenny: You like Patsy Cline? I just love her. I wonder how come she don't put out no more new records.
    Bobby: Because she's - ah, dead.
    Jenny: Oh... that's sad. Don't that make you sad?
    Bobby: I've had time to get over it.

    [Curtain call]
    Jenny is the great Claire Danes, and Bobby is Sean Penn. Come on out and take a bow. #kanyewest
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    11/12/09

    @BadUncle: Merle and Willie, and Hank III - ok. They can't be grouped with Kenny Chesney and his kind. And what is popular? Kenny chesney and his kind. #kanyewest
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    11/12/09

    In reply to Country Music Proves It's Hip, It's Cool, It Watches MTV
    Who's the old queen? #kanyewest
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    11/12/09

    @senatormayer: No clue, but he does not (NOT!) want a big strapping African American boy to come interrupt and manhandle him on stage. #kanyewest
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    11/12/09

    In reply to Country Music Proves It's Hip, It's Cool, It Watches MTV
    Oh come on. It was their night to have some fun, big deal.

    And Little Jimmy Dickens has been around since God was a boy. Everyone west of New York City knows who he is. He's had a career for 60 years and is in both the Grand Old Opry and the Country Music Hall of Fame.

    footnote: Damn, Carrie Underwood can sing. #kanyewest
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    11/12/09

    @BowlingForDollars: i'm with you bowling for dollars and martiniman. sure the kanye jokes need to stop soon, but there's some pretty great music going on here. Country is sorta so not cool, it's really cool #kanyewest
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    11/12/09

    @BowlingForDollars: West, and south of NYC. #kanyewest
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    11/12/09

    @BowlingForDollars: everyone "west of New York" voted for Bush and country music helped him. So, I'm not ashamed so say I have no idea who these people are. #kanyewest
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    11/12/09

    @manchops: Agreed. Keith Urban is one of the best, if not best, live act I have ever seen and I've seen lots (lots of genres too). The dude lays it out there and gives it his all like I've never seen. Pure emotion and an amazing guitar player. #kanyewest
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    11/12/09

    @BowlingForDollars: I can't believe it. During the old KRLD Sportatorium broadcast The Big D Jamboree, we'd be promised every week `Little Jimmy Dickens will handle all the pickin's.' Then we all grew older, like we do, and lost touch. #kanyewest
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    11/12/09

    @tailpipebananna: Are you serious? You think only redneck, Bush fans listen to country music? Newsflash. Not true. I'm a liberal from San Francisco and I'm a big fan. Did the Dixie Chicks support Bush? #kanyewest
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    11/12/09

    @bboston88: Right on bboston. In fact, I'd say the dixie chicks did more for changing people's hating attitudes (or at least exposing the utter vile hypocrisy of their opinions) than a hundred bonos, stipes and pearl jams who, basically, tend to sing primarily to their own choirs. #kanyewest
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    11/12/09

    @bboston88: Give this commenter a star!
    Or are you not Ready to Make Nice? #kanyewest
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    11/12/09

    @BowlingForDollars: Damn BowlingForDollars, I'd love me a dang star! I'd put it right next to my moose head and over my moonshine distillery#kanyewest
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    11/13/09

    @bboston88: no. they didn't and look what the got them. Their documentary was very eye opening about country music and it's fans. Liberals from San Fran pretty much ignored the DC's until they became enemies on the right. so get off your high horse. #kanyewest
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    11/13/09

    @tailpipebananna: I wasn't aware that I was on a high horse but thanks for the recommendation. It's just like any genre, all types of people like the music, generalizing and saying only right wingers like country music is like saying only dudes sipping 40s listen to rap. #kanyewest
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    11/13/09

    @bboston88: they do don't they? ;) Just thought i'd be an equal oppurtunity stereotyper....granted, not all country fans are angry right wingers ( I personally think that Red Headed Stranger is the OK Computer of C/W music), but c'mon. Don't be naive. The image they project, white confederate flag wavin' 'mericans is the predominant face of the industry. Didn't see too many counrty stars going against Bush. Like I said, watch Shut Up and Sing and be disgusted. #kanyewest
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    11/13/09

    @bboston88: and I think that while is was a courageous and rightous act, it was a career killer for the DCs. And they know it. #kanyewest
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    11/13/09

    @tailpipebananna: I'm don't 100% disagree with you by any stretch, the Toby Keith and his "put a boot in your ass" kind of people do perpetuate a bad stereotype but I really do think it's changing. Even Mr. Keith is more moderate and even somewhat introspective since his "boot in your ass" days. #kanyewest
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    11/12/09

    In reply to Country Music Proves It's Hip, It's Cool, It Watches MTV
    Isn't a gentleman supposed to take off his hat when he's indoors? #kanyewest
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    11/12/09

    @drunkexpatwriter: Special rules in Nashville. You don't often see men wearing sequins outside the Castro neither. #kanyewest
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    11/12/09

    In reply to Country Music Proves It's Hip, It's Cool, It Watches MTV
    don't these awards shows have, like, writers? #kanyewest
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    11/12/09

    In reply to Country Music Proves It's Hip, It's Cool, It Watches MTV
    That chick looks like a birthday cake. #kanyewest
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    11/12/09

    @son of spam: "Country Music Singer" should be its own separate porn category. #kanyewest
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    11/12/09

    @Barking Spider: You've never heard of Country Music Porn?

    [blog.wfmu.org]

    Surely "Cum Stains On My Pillow (Where Your Sweet Head Used To Be) is on your iPod. #kanyewest
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    11/12/09

    In reply to Country Music Proves It's Hip, It's Cool, It Watches MTV
    You forgot to mention Darius Rucker's award...approximately 15 years post-Hootie (and what a dark time that was). #kanyewest
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    11/12/09

    @kappakappaspankme: But, y'know, he only wants to be with you. At least, when the Dolphins don't make him cry. #kanyewest
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    11/12/09

    @NightElfMohawk: Hold my hand as hearing him causes me to convulse. #kanyewest
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    10/22/09

    In reply to Kanye West Spike Jonze Combo Irritatingly Unavoidable
    Is he acting? #kanyewest
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    10/22/09

    In reply to Kanye West Spike Jonze Combo Irritatingly Unavoidable
    I don't know who annoys me more, him or Pee Diddy. #kanyewest
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