A silly thing to worry about

I was browsing some of the news of today and ran across an article talking about the Dixie chicks winning three grammies. I am a fan of country music; I was well before maines decided to run off her mouth about politics. I can honestly say, I never liked the dixie chicks. They never had a country music sound, they always were a pop group, just one that used a fiddle from time to time. That doesn’t make you country any more then sitting in a garden makes you a rose.
I lost faith in award shows, to track it down to a single night it was night when I was watching country music awards the year Johnny Cash passed away. Needless to say, he was getting a lot of sympathy awards. That year Toby Keith put out the biggest selling album of the year, that included one of the longest running #1 songs in the country (across all formats) for an incredible stretch of time (about a year). It also had another #1 song on it. A shoe in for album of the year, right? Nope, Cash won that. Song of the year surely, after such a run at #1? No, Cash got that one to. Well at least Toby was the artist of the year? No, that went to Cash as well. From that moment on I was jaded about award shows. I realized they didn’t really reflect any reality.
But this was just silly; the dixe chicks are not a country group. Most country station in America does NOT play their music, and their audience is not country music fans. So of course, they are winning the grammy awards for country music. “Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocal” s The nominees weren’t that great to begin with. The winner should have been a song not even nominated “Life is a Highway” by Raschal Flatts (I’m NOT a fan of this group) but out of the actual nominees, the best song was Boondocks by Little Big Town; Amazingly enough, they are an actual country group that sounds like it. Instead that award went to the dixie chicks.
Best Country Album was also won by the chicks. The winner should have been Josh Turner’s “Your Man” This album featured 3 top ten hits in country music: Your man, Would you go with me?, Me and God.
Dare I accuse the grammy awards of being political?
Nah, they do it themselves, just like every other awards and hollywood show. A silly thing to worry about, but sometimes you have to call people on things they say and do, less outside observers get the impression it isn’t crazy.