Hey there… I post every day at 1pm central so I’d be totally pumped if you subscribe (you’ll get an email with a link to each post) or just check back for new posts coming out often! Today marks yet another post about country music. I’ve loved the genre for a long time, although I prefer more traditional country like Jon Pardi, or if I’m being 100% transparent… Alan Jackson.
Hot Tub Time Machine. Oddly enough, there are two famous people with the name Miranda in the news simultaneously, and I bet they’d both like to hop in a time machine right about now. One has sort of faded and become old news… Miranda Sings, a character created by Colleen Ballinger. Colleen was/is in hot water because she apparently didn’t know when to draw the line between her professional career and her private life. Things involving minors and mistreating people who work for her has added up to a mountain she won’t be able to climb. It’s all a bit messy and I don’t really want to get into that stuff. My general sentiment is that her jig is up. You do stuff (questionable R-rated, intimate stuff) around or including minors, your career is as good as gone. She won’t be back in the entertainment business, at least on a national scale, with any popularity any time soon, if ever. But the cooler Miranda is in the news, too…
Country Music. At the same time Jason Aldean is being cancelled, removed from CMT, making headlines, having #1 songs for his latest “Try That In A Small Town” which I wrote about here, Miranda Lambert (the country singer I almost dated) is a lightning rod of discussion. In a nutshell, at a recent show she stopped performing mid-song to call out some women who were apparently obstructing fans views when the stood up to take an elaborate selfie pic. I’m siding with Miranda for two reasons:
- She’s offering us her most beloved thing, the craft she dedicates her life to, and so it comes across as disrespectful and/or rude to pick a tender moment in the show to worry about getting a picture. Surely there is a time and a place to get a good selfie but from what I can decipher, Miranda was singing a heartfelt ballad when the ladies decided to take the picture. Should she have just let it go and continued to perform for the rest of the fans at the show? Perhaps. But what if a painter was presenting her artwork in a gallery showing and in the middle of explaining the motive behind one of her most cherished pieces of art, a group of people got out their phones for selfies? It’s just bad timing, I think. Plus, disrupting other people’s experiences isn’t a blunder to be overlooked.
- Put your phones away. There is something pure and memorable about being “in the moment.” Enjoy the show because you paid money for the privilege. Take a picture or two but then, be all the way in… try to listen for each instrument, watching the drummer slam the sticks into the snare drum, the guitar tech rushing out to swap instruments, the concert lights spinning and twirling to the beat of the song, the entertainer (Miranda, in this case) putting on a showcase of their talents, skills, and personality. When I get my phone out to take a picture or record a short video, I’m snapped out of the moment so quickly because my focus turns to the image on my little screen. I’ve usually lost the magic created by being in the room with fellow fans in a place and time that can’t really be recreated ever again. And just to get a picture to show people that I was here? Who cares? Great, I have picture to remember that time I stopped enjoying the show to take a picture. Whoop-de-freakin-do!
Do either of the Mirandas tick you off? How about Jason Aldean? Something will come along soon that shuffles these stories to the back burner, which will be music to the ears of Jason, Miranda, and Colleen… I’m sure.
-Out of the Wilderness
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