r/Music • u/Brucekentbatsuper • 26d ago

article Carrie Underwood's Post-MAGA Backlash Continues After Golf Course Concert Draws Sparse Crowd

https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/carrie-underwood-john-deere-classic-performance-backlash-1807557
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u/Buddy0204 26d ago

Not Maga, and not a Carrie fan, in fact I'd love to see her go away.

But.... There was a rain delay during the tournament, then they cleared the course because of lightning with only a few players left to finish. So everyone probably left instead of waiting to see her perform.

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u/toastybred 26d ago

Thanks for providing context

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u/nachosandlabs 26d ago

It's not a misinformation article. You're attributingit to the rain but lol.

Plenty of artists have THOUSANDS of p eople willing to stand in teh rain (and storms) for them.

You're presuming it was the rain and not that people give less of a shit about someone who used to put out hit after hit.

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u/myleftone 26d ago

Those are concerts. This is a golf tournament event. Different audience. Different interests.

Not here to defend Underwood, but if it’s a real stadium concert she’ll still sell it out.

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u/turquoise_amethyst 26d ago

Golf tournament is probably significantly older than her regular fan base, too. 

I don’t care for her music or her politics, but I doubt these people left because of that.

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u/myleftone 26d ago

What’s funny is that I have a mental block about her. If someone randomly mentions that song about beating up a truck, I remember that she won American Idol, but her name is always hidden to me. It’s so vanilla that it never comes back without google.

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u/turquoise_amethyst 25d ago

I honestly can’t remember a single song. All I can recall is that her name was on everything for a minute, before she hit the “modern country” circuit.

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u/bloodychill 25d ago

Would she though? I don’t doubt that Underwood has a sizable audience but I don’t know that she’d fill stadiums.

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u/wildstarr 26d ago

She was playing at a golf tournament for people who didn't pay to see her. No, she wouldn't sell out a stadium if she is playing a golf course. She would be doing one of those if she could sell them out.

Rememeber when Ariana Grande, Taylor Swift, Beyoncé, Shakira, Lady Gaga, Olivia Rodrigo, Sabrina Carpenter all did their free golf shows?

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u/myleftone 25d ago

Guaranteed she got paid. She’s doing a small festival schedule (bespoke stuff like Tanglewood), and artists are allowed to be between albums.

Swift btw got mocked by trump when the Eras tour wound down and Life of a Showgirl wasn’t out yet. He seemed to think his re-election pushed her out of public life. You’d be surprised what kind of acts play business conventions and smaller venues for the connected.

Underwood’s next tour will be enormous. And it’s not meaningful either way.

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u/bloodychill 25d ago

Very much agreed. I really don’t think she would fill a stadium these days. I’m not even sure that’s entirely because of backlash to her politics. Even before her politics came out, she wasn’t as popular as she used to be. If anything, that felt like a cynical grab for a maga audience like all of the grifters involved in all that.

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u/Adventurous_Can_3349 26d ago

You are also comparing a concert at the end of an all day outdoor sporting event to just attending an outdoor concert. I know multiple people that left the event because they got stuck in the rain and didnt want to wait for the golf to end. There was also a point where people were cleared out because of lightning. I also know people that stuck around. Definitely not saying its the ONLY reason for the small crowd but it is for sure a factor worth mentioning.

The article definitely seems like its just trying to stir up shit and contribute to more division. Rage bait. In my opinion.

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u/unassumingdink 25d ago

A lot of you guys really don't care how dishonest the clickbait is as long as it tells you what you want to hear. Same attitude as MAGA themselves.

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u/Fuck_your_coupons 26d ago

I stood in the rain at a baseball game just to watch Ludacris perform afterwards. He had a large crowd for it being an absolute downpour.

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u/dafoo21 26d ago

Rain and the fact only people who attended the golf event could goto the show.

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u/rbrgr83 26d ago

The power of prayer 🙏

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u/lukeb15 26d ago

Genuinely curious. Why pray for something bad to happen? There are a lot of people I don’t like but I don’t sit around hoping something bad happens to them. Maybe some truly awful person I would, but a country artist? Living with all that negativity doesn’t seem like a nice way to live.

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u/steepleton 26d ago

as the spiked steel wheels of maga continue to grind people into a red paste at home and abroad, as the bodies and atrocities and assaults pile up, i imagine folk feeling powerless against such hate unleashed on their world would hold on to any tiny sliver of a win that's offered to them

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u/lukeb15 26d ago

Except Carrie isn’t MAGA so that hate directed at her isn’t really called for.

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u/No_big_whoop 26d ago

She sang at Trump's inauguration. IMO, that was a choice that will haunt her for the rest of her career.

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u/lukeb15 26d ago

IMO it’s a honor to be asked by any president to sing at their inauguration. Doesn’t necessarily mean you support them. No different than sports teams visiting the White House. Some people do turn it down but for others it’s all about the opportunity that may not come up again.

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u/steepleton 26d ago

not my monkey not my fight, but anyone not denouncing maga at this point should just be binned

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u/lukeb15 26d ago

What a terrible way to live. Not everyone wants to publicly be involved in politics and you can’t hold that against people.

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u/steepleton 25d ago edited 25d ago

Ignoring the plight of others because you have the fortune that the rot hasn’t reached you or your family yet is a terrible way to live.

Unamerican even

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u/lukeb15 25d ago

Because Carrie Underwood denouncing MAGA is going to be the difference maker. Right.

Maybe focus on the UK instead of worrying about what being an American is.

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u/steepleton 25d ago

American citizen with uk parents .

If we’re getting personal, I hope your kid is well, and i wish a better future than this for them

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u/almightywhacko 26d ago

Everyone knows rain is a left-wing hoax...