Broadway Under the Mistletoe will feature numbers from Always Like New , as well as favorites off of her previously released holiday album To Celebrate Christmas. Nettles began performances in Waitress on Broadway on October 19 and will remain in the lead role of Jenna through November This marks her second Broadway role, following a turn as Roxie Hart in Chicago.
For tickets and a full performance schedule for Broadway Under the Mistletoe , click here. Buy Tickets to Waitress. Granted, Jennifer Nettles has been quite outspoken about the lack of representation for women on country radio over the last few years, both on social media, and in interviews. In fact she might be the most outspoken when it comes to the performer class.
Most certainly, Jennifer Nettles has become one of the figureheads of the equal play movement. But her advocacy also deserves some important context. They had a third member in the form of Atlanta, GA-native Kristen Hall when they first started out, including when they were first signed to major label Mercury Nashville, and released their debut record, Twice The Speed of Life in They also saw their first commercial success with three Gold singles on country radio while Kristen Hall was a member.
A few years the senior of fellow Sugarland members Jennifer Nettles and Kristian Bush, Kristen Hall was the established artist in Atlanta who helped open doors for the group. Kristen Hall officially left Sugarland in December of The lawsuit was settled out of court for an undisclosed figure in November of , and all documents in the case were sealed, leaving the details of the settlement undisclosed.
Granted, none of this takes away from the advocacy and outspokenness of Jennifer Nettles on the issue of equal play for women in country recently, or the veracity of her claims about the issue. Undoubtedly, women face a greater uphill battle in country music than their male counterparts. It makes me so happy to see you shine, and share your talent and love for country music, with the world!
The first ever. May this be the first of many! These type of topical tweets are what feed into the idea of Nettles as an advocate for the marginalized. This is one of many examples of how some of of the most common moments of exclusion in country music at the moment are coming at the hands of journalists and others looking to paint country music as exclusionary, and erasing the contributions of POC and LGBT members to make their incorrect claims. The greater concern in this issue is one that surrounds many of the actions involving identity politics and woke ideology, which is that words speak louder than actions, and as long as you say the right things on Twitter, or cause a spectacle on a red carpet, you can be lauded as a champion and advocate, while hiding actual moments of exclusion.
Yet recently when Highwomen member Amanda Shires tweeted out criticism for the CMAs for not having a single person of color on their board, she was praised for her advocacy.
Advocating for women and minorities in country music has very much become an action of fashion and performance to gain social capital, favorable media coverage, and even perhaps, major awards, while often the individuals behind-the-scenes doing the grunt work for these inclusion initiatives get forgotten, or even criticized for not speaking out more, or sooner, as we saw with the misguided Accountability Spreadsheet surrounding Black Lives Matter.
Leslie Fram and CMT have put actions behind words with their initiatives. Whether dictating equal play for women as a mandate is the right way to truly give women equal footing in country music is something that can be debated, while as Fram has said herself, one of the major issues facing the representation of women in country music is simply an inventory issue that needs to be solved on a more fundamental level.
But what CMT is doing is at least a start, and offering context to Jennifer Nettles inaugural Equal Play award is in no way an attempt to undermine the spirit behind the award whatsoever.
Me December 17, pm. Kevin Davis October 21, am. I know CMT is just another ViacomCBS entity with no real connection to country music and the folks who love and support it, but this is even more pathetic than I cold have imagined.
How about just rewarding the most deserving artist, not forcing a quota and certainly not giving an utterly meaningless and pandering award? Fuzzy Twoshirts October 21, pm.
David Hampton August 3, am. It is about life, she knows more about it, than you will ever know! Chucky Waggs October 21, pm. Dee Manning October 21, pm. CountryKnight October 22, pm. Yup, who cares about playing the best videos? Because it is fair! Dee Manning October 22, pm. If they were going by merit, Kacey Musgraves would be on permanent heavy rotation and you would never see Russell Dickerson, Dustin Lynch or Florida Georgia Line ever again.
Sit down. I feel like country music is a niche market right now. The money is in making sure that attractive males sing songs that heterosexual females will enjoy. Trigger October 21, pm. Like cable news, country music draws low ratings, but large advertising dollars due to the targeted demographic the format attracts.
Radio goes away from that, their entire business model fails. Actually, I believe country music fans skew female. The thinking behind programming more males — and some radio guy was actually stupid enough to say this out loud — is they think women fans like to fantasize the country stars are singing to them personally.
Which is such total BS. I just Googled this, CMT did research and fans overwhelmingly want to hear more female artists. So the issue is Neanderthal radio programmers who need to retire. He put this message out for years. Dee Manning October 22, am. Targeted to women. I watch CMT hot 20 countdown every Saturday. Just this once I will not fast forward through the commercials and will write down what they are.
Dee Manning October 24, am. Trigger October 24, am. Of course CMT is going to have ads catering to the soccer mom. Of course they do. NPC October 21, pm.
Muck October 21, pm. I know that she is openly gay now. I know that is generally was not talked about when she was in Sugarland. Although Jennifer and partner Kristian Bush say they have a lot of fun in their careers -- especially when writing and recording their recent chart-topping album, ' The Incredible Machine ' -- there are plenty of bumps in their road, too, which Jennifer wants to share with their fans I look at Kristian sometimes or I look at our manager and I think, 'This s is going in the memoir, because there are a lot of things I may not be able to say right now but I'm going to.
That's part of what Jennifer says is her vision for the future. Other parts include what she laughingly calls a romantic version of herself as "some kind of crazy character, completely drunk out of my mind with lots of red lipstick and lots of jewelry. But I won't do interviews. I'll just be a mystery and only write some dark Southern Gothic stuff. For right now, though, Jennifer and Kristian are reveling in their new album.
Although there has been some criticism that the project veers too far away from country, the duo have also received many kudos including for Jennifer's vocals that have been favorably compared to those of Reba McEntire. It's very humbling," Jennifer tells The Boot of the comparison. She hasn't let herself be locked in.
On songwriting vs. It's an institution in Nashville that a lot of time the writing is separate from the performing. Nashville in the last 30 or 40 years has been built on this wonderful community of songwriters. We have been welcomed in as songwriters as well as artists. On pushing musical boundaries on this album, Jennifer says: "It is the music that we love and the influences that we have experienced through our artistic lives that inspires us. And at the same time, we trust our fans and they trust us.
We have established a climate of artistic growth and expression and evolution from the beginning as writers.
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