Earth to the CMAs!
The Country Music Awards get it all wrong. In retrospect, the Star Trek-esque logo for this year’s Academy of Country Music Awards was an ominous sign. Don’t get me wrong; my love for Star Trek is bottomless and immense. And there’s certainly room for cross-fertilization between sci-fi and country. But mainstream country’s current tendency toward the new, shiny, clean, and expensive is the reason I tend to turn the dial past WDEN 99.1 when I’m back home. The obnoxious boy-band sound of Rascal Flatts just kills my soul a little bit. But the strange sight of a space-age visual cue was pretty appropriate. …