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The idea behind Robert's Random is for me to write about whatever I'm thinking about whenever I'm thinking it. I try to write 3-5 times a week, but sometimes real work gets in the way of that. Sometimes I'll share whatever random thought I might have that day but most of the time, I like to write about things going on in the news. I'm a total news junkie, I spend a lot of time online at various news sites. If I find a story where someone does something totally stupid or I wonder "what were they thinking?" I don't mind pointing it out incase others missed it or taking my best guess at what they were thinking. I like to laugh, I like to make others laugh. There's so much serious and wrong stuff going on in the news that when I find an unusual or light story, I like to use it. And while real life news events might be the focus of many of my blogs, I'm just trying to entertain you, make you laugh and maybe even think about something you didn't know before reading. I'm not trying to break any serious news or deliver any hard-hitting coverage. You'll have to read a paper or watch one of the network shows for that.
Five reasons Kelly Pickler should just disappear.
1. Kelly pretends to be a small town girl, even naming her debut album Small Town Girl. She always acts like a wide-eye kid from Grand View dropped into the middle of Time Square.
She's been around for a couple of years now, went on tour with Brad Paisley, was on American Idol, she can drop the act.
Kelly's fake personality began on Idol where she said she never sung in front of an audience before singing on Idol's stage.
Really? You won several beauty pageants in North Carolina and listed singing as your hobby. Did the audience clear the auditorium prior to your singing events just for you?
2. She doesn't offer anything of value to country music, above her neck that is. Check out her three singles: "My Red High Heels," "I Wonder" and "Things that Never Cross a Man's Mind".
I wonder why she doesn't put on her red high heels, click them three times and go back home. I'm a man, I don't need her telling me what doesn't cross my mind, I live in it. I know what crosses my mind and what doesn't, thank you.
I don't want to hear her whine about her mom leaving her as a kid or how she's going to get back at her boyfriend for cheating on her. You know why her mom left her and her boyfriend cheated on her? They can't stand her either.
3. At the 2008 CMT Flame Worthy Awards, Kelly won the award for best break-through video. She went on and on for about four minutes thanking everyone she could think of from her manager to her record label's janitor and her bus driver.
However, she forgot to thank one very important group of people: her fans.
Hello! It was a fan-based award show, the fans voted for the winners. Don't you think they should get a thank you?
4. She accepted the award via a video screen from Arizona. What the heck was she doing in Arizona? Everybody who is anybody in country music was at the award show: Kenny Chesney, Brad Paisley, Tim and Faith, Sugarland, Brooks and Dunn, Reba, Toby Keith, Keith Urban, Taylor Swift, Trace Adkins, Sara Evens, Big and Rich and many more. They even had a special stage for new comers to play on with the house band during comical breaks.
Other than family stuff, what could have been more important than being in Nashville for the award show?
The award show was all about the fans and she couldn't even make it. It's not like she had a show, everyone she would have been opening for was in the building.
She was the only person, other than Bon Jovi who won an award with LeAnn Rimes, not to accept the award in person.
There's a reason fans voted her off of Idol. Now if we could only find a way to vote her off the island that is North America.
5. Check out the following story I stole off of Wikipida, it speaks for it's self:
Pickler appeared on Jeff Foxworthy's show, "Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?" She was asked, "Budapest is the capital of what European country?"
She replied, "This might be a stupid question, but I thought Europe was a country." She thought it might be France, and then was confused if France really was a country or not. When told the answer was Hungary, she did not believe the host. She said, "Hungry [sic]? That's a country? I've heard of Turkey, but Hungry? I've never heard of it."
The video has become an instant YouTube hit.
Pickler was also perplexed when asked whether the piccolo belongs to the woodwind, strings, or percussion musical family. In trying to reason out the answer to the question, she noted that "percussion starts with a p" and accordingly decided, "I'm just going to keep the p's together, and I'm just going to say percussion." ("Woodwind" was the correct answer.)
6. I would come up with a sixth reason, but I'm going to YouTube instead.
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I like Taylor, I think she's talented. She's going to be great in 3-5 years when she's lived more of life and can write about other things than just high school.
And to be fair, she works extremely hard to take care of her fans. She said on TV the other night a bilizion people had their picture taken with the award she won last year and I have no doubt it's true.
When she performed at the University of Idaho last year, her manager and school officials weren't sure if she should sign autographs or not because of the two-hour drive back to Spokane where her hotel was.
Taylor made the call for them on stage and said she'd sign autographs for anyone who wanted one. The line was pretty long but for over three hours, she stood there, interacted with her fans, took pictures and signed autographs for every last fan.
It was pretty amazing.