{"id":1318388,"date":"2020-02-23T21:06:05","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T04:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1818183"},"modified":"2020-02-23T21:06:05","modified_gmt":"2020-02-24T04:06:05","slug":"why-the-gender-imbalance-wakes-carrie-underwood-up-every-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/why-the-gender-imbalance-wakes-carrie-underwood-up-every-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the Gender Imbalance Wakes Carrie Underwood Up Every Day"},"content":{"rendered":"
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by Alison Bonaguro<\/a><\/span>
\n37m ago<\/span>
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There is no question what the question is. How do you solve the gender imbalance on country radio, where females are underrepresented in every market and every day part?<\/p>\n

And just like the rest of us, Carrie Underwood is searching for the answer in order to right that wrong. <\/p>\n

\u201cTo be honest, I don\u2019t know what the answer is. I wish I did. It\u2019s such a cycle,\u201d Underwood explained during her artist interview at last week\u2019s Country Radio Seminar in Nashville. \u201cIt\u2019s hard for me<\/em> to find demos. It\u2019s hard for me<\/em> to find songs.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause songwriters aren\u2019t writing for women. Why would they? I mean, that\u2019s their job. That\u2019s what they\u2019re going to do every day. They\u2019ve gotta pay their mortgage. Put their kids through college. They\u2019re giving the consumers what they want, which is dude songs.\u201d <\/p>\n

She said that she doesn\u2019t know which came first \u2014 the chicken or the egg \u2014 but she does know what a vicious circle it is. \u201cI don\u2019t know how it started. Or how to fix it. If nobody\u2019s writing us songs, then it\u2019s hard to find great songs,\u201d she added about the unending reciprocal cause and effect. \u201cI feel like being aware is step one, and I feel like everybody is. But it takes more people stepping up and doing what\u2019s right. I have thought long and hard, like, \u2019I can find the answer! I can save it!\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cI wake up every day expecting for a light bulb to go off in my head, but, still waiting.\u201d<\/p>\n

Later in the conversation, Underwood admitted that in her younger days, she kept diaries. (Which, honestly, could be a solid place to start to write songs with the unique perspective of a woman.) \u201cI started flipping through one not too long ago and I was just like, \u2019I can\u2019t.\u2019 It\u2019s emotions, right? As a woman, I feel like if we all just blurted out our feelings and emotions at all hours of the day, that would just all be super dramatic. Like, everything\u2019s terrible. You don\u2019t mean most of what you say,\u201d she added. <\/p>\n

But if the awareness is step one, then action is step two. And that\u2019s something Underwood did in 2019 when she took Maddie and Tae and Runaway June out on tour with her. \u201cYes, they are females, but they are freakin\u2019 talented. And I feel like that more than anything was like, these women deserve to be on giant stages with lots of lights and lots of people,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n

\u201cAnd I think more than anything, something incredible has come out of all of the conversations. And that is the fact that we as women, we have to support each other. Even earlier on in my career, there were still not that many of us. I remember even falling into my own mindset of things being like a competition,\u201d she admitted. \u201cOver the past two or three years, we\u2019ve kind of put that crap behind us. We\u2019ve had to band together and it\u2019s been wonderful. <\/p>\n

\u201cIf there\u2019s one giant bright light that has come out of that, it\u2019s that.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Alison makes her living loving country music. She’s based in Chicago, but she’s always leaving her heart in Nashville. <\/div>\n

@alisonbonaguro<\/a> <\/div>\n

via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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