Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Soundtrack Of The Day: "Praying For Time (Live)" - Carrie Underwood
In these days of class warfare, Occupying Wall Street and Mitt "Corporations Are People" Romney closing in on a GOP nom, it's easy to smear each other as heartless poor-hating bastards or spineless greedy welfare queens. And residents of red states and blue states have being branded with stereotypes that don't always fit.
But in the end, you cannot paint people with such a broad brush. Oklahoma native Carrie Underwood won the "flyover states" favorite TV show, American Idol her debut hit Country single was called "Jesus Take The Wheel." She should be everything liberal America can't stand.
But she's a proponent of adoption and as a vegetarian she has been named PETA's Sexiest Vegetarian twice. And when she appeared on 2008's Idol Gives Back she performed one of the damning song ever recorded, George Micheal's "Praying For Time." With lyrics like "So you scream from behind your door/Say whats mine is mine and not yours/I may have too much/But I’ll take my chances cause God stopped keeping score" it's a perfect theme for the Occupy generation.
Not exactly what one would expect from the biggest star in country music, a genre frequently maligned for it's "backwards" fans. Perhaps they are a little more human than people might think.
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