Carrie Underwood: Strongly Against Backing A Candidate
American Idol alum Carrie Underwood isn’t into celebrities who vocalize who they are voting for and says so in her TV Guide interview out November 6.
“I lose all respect for celebrities when they back a candidate,” the multiplatinum-selling singer says.
“It’s saying that the American public isn’t smart enough to make their own decisions,” Carrie explains.
“I would never want anybody to vote for anything or anybody just because I told them to. Music is where you go to get away from all the BS. Whether it’s from politics or just the world around you, music should be an escape.”
Do you agree with her? Did any celebrities sway your vote?
I lose all respect for celebs when they think that their opinions matter so much to the American public. People have the right, celebs included, to publicly back whichever candidate they choose. I don’t think many Americans over the legal voting age will be swayed by what some celebrites think. I think Carrie Underwood should give the American public a little mroe credit and herself a little less.
I agree with Miss Underwood to some extent. I don’t believe that it’s saying that the American public isn’t smart enough to make their own decisions, but I do hate it when a celebrity backs a candidate. I’m not saying they shouldn’t be able to; I’m just saying that they shouldn’t use their fame to try and sway others to vote the way they want them to. Like it or not, some Americans are easily swayed. They don’t take the time and read the issues themselves; they simply take someone else’s word for it, and in my opinion, just because you’re famous doesn’t mean you know jack about politics. (Some do; some don’t.)
Nonsense. Celebrities have as much right to speak their minds as anybody does. This sounds more like an attempt to maintain an audience base of Republicans and Democrats. The idea that it is somehow rude or tacky to be involved in the voting process is antithetical to Democracy, which requires lively debate to thrive.
“Music is where you go to get away from all the BS. Whether it’s from politics or just the world around you, music should be an escape.”
Music CAN be an escape. But to say how it SHOULD be? As oppose to what the individual wants it to be? People have been using music to express their politics since before her grandparents were born. That is, arguably, how folk music came to be; the type of music that started it all. She just shit, essentially, on the foundation of the music that she plays.
I agree with Carrie. At first I stopped going to concerts by artists who mention politics at their concerts. Now I avoid artists who try to use their celebrity to cross into politics at all. It taints the entertainment value of thier music.
@jzancan Folk music did NOT come into existence as political discourse. Some of it became famous that way because it gave a voice to people many of whom could not read or write, and told what their life was like. This was a tiny minority of folk music that became famous prcisely because it was “in your face”. The same reason rapes and murders make headlines now. Because they are the exeption, not the rule.
You go Carrie…and sorry “jzancan” didn’t know how to read between the lines…had to pick at every word said! Music industry should not be political…Just go with what you like and like it!!! Let the people decide…they are the ones buying the merchandise…besides it only works with the people who are not confident and able to decide for themselves…LOL!