Carrie Underwood

Can we hand over a collection of her good songs for Kelly to re-record and we can delete her existence from the world?
 
Like most, I can't say I'm surprised on a politics front, but I am bit taken aback that she's now so emboldened when she has spent so much of her career purposely avoiding the topic of politics. I'm intrigued if this will set a precedent for others to finally show face.

Yeah, a lot of the bigger country stars of the last 20-ish years are fascinatingly apolitical. Probably a reaction to The Chicks getting cancelled and exiled from Nashville but it’s still so strange when you pick up on it.
 
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Well disappointed feels like too small of a word. Not to be overly earnest but one of my favorite memories with my mom as a kid was rooting for Carrie on Idol (the Alone performance!) and me convincing her to let me text in a vote on her razr for the win. Back when Carrie said she thought it was okay to be gay, that homophobia was essentially antiquated, it was the first time I remember a celebrity I was aware of who was religious also being pro-gay. I also stanned the music through Storyteller but her impact on my own navigation of religion and sexuality was unique and in turn, meant a lot to me.

I peripherally knew of the tweet liking and all of that, but the full mask off is devastating. I think I’m so emotional about it because this feels like just the beginning.
 

RainOnFire

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She was such a safe gateway into country music for a lot of pop fans and young people who did not feel accepted by the genre. If you weren’t there it’s hard to explain what a gut punch this is.
You hit the nail on the head. I was there, and I don't even think I realized it until you wrote it out perfectly like this.

I think what I find most stunning about this is that, despite the fact that she's fallen off commercially, she's still considered a big name (certainly more than the America's Got Talent girl who did the previous Trump inauguration) and has more of a mainstream cache than most country stars because of Idol. So I feel like her doing this now sets a precedent in a way that it hasn't for any other loser celebrity who's publicly supported him before.

And it's the fact that it's her. She could've just sat there and let Kid Rock do it, but she's choosing to lead the charge. And from someone who implicitly stood for something for the first decade of her career as you said, not to mention just being a private and apolitical person in general... this is just really difficult to come to terms with.
 
A country artist being a piece of shit human being? And some of you mustered up a display of surprise? Maybe even so far as to say a guffaw?

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