Taylor Swift‘s Fearless won big at the MTV VMAs and the Grammys but on June 9th, the 20-year-old singer got no love from her country brethren. Instead, Carrie Underwood was crowned the queen of the night at the CMT Music Awards, while Swift went home empty handed.
Country musicians are like parasites – they latch onto popular bands, remake their songs and poison them permanently. For the most part, pop artists are the most frequent victims, but the country plague has a new a target: heavy metal.
In one of the most puzzling announcements this year, Def Leppard, the band that pioneered a new wave of British heavy metal, has been nominated for three first-round Country Music Television (CMT) awards for their recent duet with Taylor Swift on the song “Photograph“. Scary (and disgusting), I know. Could this be a sign of the times, or is it an isolated incident?
