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World’s Worst Songs: “Good Girl” by Carrie Underwood

World’s Worst Songs: “Good Girl” by Carrie Underwood

J.A. Bartlett May 15, 2012 2

After Carrie Underwood won American Idol in 2005, she wanted to be marketed as a country singer, and she has been fabulously successful: 11 #1 country singles and three more that peaked at #2,

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Some Half-Baked Thoughts About Country Music Or: Michael Sarko Made Me Write This Post

Some Half-Baked Thoughts About Country Music Or: Michael Sarko Made Me Write This Post

J.A. Bartlett April 23, 2012 5

Does country music suck, or doesn't it? Depends on who you are and what you want from it

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Death by Power Ballad: Heart, “Alone”

Rob Smith June 28, 2010 13

Singer Ann Wilson powered Heart's power ballad "Alone." Rob Smith pays tribute to the song and the voice in this week's Death by Power Ballad, at Popdose.com

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Numberscruncher: “American Idol” and the Stock Market

Ann Logue January 12, 2010 6

John Maynard Keynes, the eminent economist who is back in style, described the stock market as a beauty contest. He asked the readers of his General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money to imagine

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CD Review: Carrie Underwood, “Play On”

Jeff Giles November 3, 2009 14

Stop right there, George Jones and Willie Nelson fans. If you think of fiddles and pedal steel when you think of country, you still get angry when you think about Shania Twain, and you

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Unsolicited Career Advice for… Radiohead

Rob Smith March 2, 2009 8

You wouldn’t know it by reading the following, but Uncle Donnie is afraid of British people.  Thought the Beatles were going to bring about a counter-Revolutionary War, in which England would attempt to take

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Billboarding: 5/19/08

Jeff Giles May 19, 2008 13

Howdy, pardners! It’s been a couple of weeks since we moseyed down Billboard way, so what do you say we hop along down to the Hot Country Top 10 and see what’s cooking in

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