Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Daily Diversion / Media / Silverman John Rich: Urban Pioneer, Salsa Gardener and Now...TV Critic
Posted by Jack Silverman on Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 6:06 AM
Count your lucky stars, Nashvillians! Two consecutive days with John Rich posts, courtesy of Pith in the Wind.
Yesterday, Bruce Barry commented on The Tennessean's John Rich puff piece, in which the country music star who likes to ride cowboys, er, I mean, likes to sing about riding cowboys, waxed poetic about his Love Circle home like it was the brainchild of I.M. Pei and Frank Lloyd Wright.
Now, in an interview on Sirius Radio (hear it here), Music City's favorite bling-blangin', massive-monstrosity-buildin' son of a gun said he's through with Nashville Star, and that the folks at NBC wouldn't know a Bush Hog from a badonkadonk.
I'll never do Nashville Star ever again, as long as NBC has anything to do with it. Ever. And I hope some of those executives are listening to this interview right now. The folks in New York at NBC, there's some good folks up there, but I swear to God they don't know jack-you-know-what about country music....Overall, I didn't like the way that the network treated country fans. I think they didn't understand that you don't have to sing pop music. You can just sing straight-ahead country music. We've got a guy named Kenny Chesney who's 40 years old, who is an East Tennessee hillbilly, who sells 80,000 tickets a show, every single year, stadium after stadium after stadium. We don't need the other people's music to make us cool enough to listen to. So I got in a bloody-knuckle fistfight with NBC about every week....
I swear to God, somebody at NBC is probably listening right now, and I want to tell them I appreciate the opportunity of having me on the show, but you guys really jacked that up.
Regarding the Chesney comment, CMT blogger Alison Bonaguro aptly noted, "That may be true, but we've also got a girl named Miranda Lambert who's a feisty little Texan who sells a lot of concert tickets. And she came from those Nashville Star roots. So the show can't be all that bad."
And what's with "the other people's music"? Who are these "other people"? Sounds like some sort of veiled slur, though I'm not sure against who. Rockers? Blacks? Mexicans? Small people? I'm pretty sure he meant Jews.
Never mind that the man with Nashville's most tragic 'stache used my name in vain not once, but twice.
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holy @#$!, new music from Big Kenny on his site is great, when is that coming out?
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I the words of Mother Theresa, "John Rich is a no talent ass bag."
In the words of John Rich, "'Nuff said."
Bonaguro's note isn't all that apt, since Miranda Lambert was on the first season of Nashville Star, before it was on NBC; that was also the last season the focus was on talent and country music rather than on looks (the big emphasis starting the second season) and melismas.
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