Although, I wouldn’t count Carrie out for EOTY next year. She’s already scheduled for lots of fairs and special events, she’s already scheduled a couple more tour dates on the east coast (she’ll be in Atlantic City, NJ on Jan. 1), and she’s in talks with Arista and Simon Fuller to do a small acoustic tour across the country and throughout Australia, the UK, and potentially Germany. Plus, she has the Grammys (which she will be very active at judging by her juggernaut year), she has “Soul Surfer” to premiere, and she will have a fourth album in the fall.

I’m not counting Carrie out just yet for next year. Although, I might as well since the CMAs didn’t honor her with the nod this year, and her 2010 will be bigger than her 2011. One can only hope, though! :)

Agreed, I feel the same way about Country Universe as well. Keep it up guys.

I love Brad and Carrie hosting. They’re looking so comfortable now, especially Carrie. I would have loved to see a few more song parodies. And you gotta love Little Jimmy, he’ll do anything for a laugh. :) Of course I loved Songs Like This but I wish she had done a mashup somewhere in there. Mama’s song wasn’t her best vocally but when I watched it back on YouTube I realized that she actually sang it quite well but I guess it’s just that we’ve come to expect perfection from her.

The funny thing about the Entertainer award was that if they were going to give it to Brad anyway, they may as well have given Carrie a nomination and saved themselves a lot of backlash grief. No one would have blinked an eye if Carrie had lost to Brad. (Ok, well maybe they would have blinked half an eye.) Still disappointed as a Carrie Fan that she didn’t get that nomination. But I suppose after getting a network to give her two hours of primetime for her own holiday show, being asked to sing at the Superbowl, being asked to perform a Michael Jackson tribute on the Grammy’s, being chosen by the public to perform in front of 50,000 fans at the stadium of fire, being chosen by Olay to be the first North American brand Ambassador, co-writing and performing the song for the upcoming Narnia film, acting on TV and on film, selling out the Hollywood Bowl for 17,000 fans and performing for over 1 million fans by the end of her Play On tour….. I guess she’s beyond needing the approval of 6,000 CMA members. Well, a little venting was required after all as there’s no way she’ll be nominated next year as she won’t even be touring. I think Carrie was probably over the disappointment long before her fans will be.

Ta-da?

on top of everything, that outcome should enable miranda and blake to stand in front of their future, new, big mansion purring: “…the house that built we, darlin’!”