I Blame You, Carrie Bradshaw

Today is my last day off before I head to VA Beach, then the UK, then a canoe trip, then the wedding marathon that is the summer. Calm before the storm. So I was folding laundry today and turned on the TV. I was flipping channels when I got to CMT to see a new Dixie Chicks video! What? Really? They are back? Essentially, the song is about the backlash they got from the pop country establishment after they spoke out about Bush back in early 2003. It's called "Not Ready to Make Nice" and it plays automatically on their website. I cheered. I watched it again (God love TiVo). I'm glad they aren't apologizing for their comments, or their politics! So they are liberal, that really justifies the banishment from radio? I think that this new single and subsequent album will be just as overexposed as their previous material, as it should be. If not, then country music needs to get a life. I used to love country but have found, since the Iraq Invasion and the "With us or are a terriorist" rhetoric, that my ability to tolerate the cliches and conservatism has wained. I don't even know where that pop crap is going now. If Toby Keith is anywhere near the helm of that ship, I want off. And even CMT is totally biased! Read the biography of the Dixie Chicks on the CMT site, it makes The National Liberty Journal look sort of balanced. I'm not a huge Dixie Chicks fan, but I am a fan of free speech. I'll support them more for that than for anything else. And they cover Patty Griffin songs. Bonus.
THEN! Then to make it weirder, right after the new Dixie Chicks video came a new one from John Corbett...as in Aiden from "Sex and the City"...as in the guy Carrie totally should have ended up with instead of Mr. Big who is, let's face it, kind of a schmuck. John Corbett, with sideburns and Jesus hair, singing about dying. Typical pop country song. What? I'm sorry he will always be Aiden. Even when he was in "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" he was still Aiden. Even on "Northern Exposure" he was Aiden, like 10 years before Aiden existed. He is like Ashton Kucher who will always be Kelso, like Kelsey Grammer who is Fraiser, like Keifer Sutherland who'd better hope Jack Bauer never dies.
And actors singing? Didn't Don Johnson and Bruce Willis teach us something about that? Nancy Reagan did! She taught us "Just Say No" . This means you, Aiden.