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By MOLLY DAVIS
The Taylor Swift “opinions” keep on rolling in.
It seems that every time something amazing happens in the country cutie’s career, there are naysayers that want to take her down a notch.
Or several notches.
Wynonna Judd is the latest to jump on the Kanye West express.
You’d think that after the verbal backlash of Kanye’s stunt at the MTV VMA’s this year, where he jumped on stage and interrupted the PA native as she was accepting her “Video of the Year” moonman award, people would learn something.
Nope.
Wynonna Judd is trying to remove her cowboy boot from her mouth after stating her opinion about Taylor’s big win at the CMA’s.
The country singer has apologized on her Web site (where else – who does personal apologies anymore?) for her slamming Swift, who became the youngest artist ever to win the Country Music Association Awards’ Entertainer of the Year trophy.
“I understand that my comment . . . came across as a negative statement,” Judd writes.
Prior to the awards show, Judd told USA Today that the 19-year-old’s nomination was “too much, too soon . . . Time is God’s way of keeping everything from happening at once. It’s just too much of a good thing soon . . . I want kids to earn it.”
Really, Wynonna?
Do you think Swift hasn’t “earned” her success?
I beg to differ — as do her legions of fans and supporters.
Judd tried to backtrack: “My intent was not to take anything away from her talent and contributions to the country music industry…all of which are truly unprecedented for an artist of ANY age.”
She adds: “Taylor is a beautiful, hard working young woman that deserves the success she has had and I support her as an artist and as a woman in the business.”
Too little, too late.
It smacks of jealously masked as “concern.”
This coming for a 45-year-old irrelevant country “star” who is famous for being the daughter of Naomi and the sister of actress Ashley Judd.
Does she have talent?
Sure.
But not like Taylor.
Jumping on the Taylor-dissing bandwagon is creepy country crooner Randy Travis.
He said, “As a writer, she is a phenomenal talent. When you look at the body of work that she has written at the age when she came into this business, it’s remarkable. It really is. But do I think that entertainer of the year might have been a little early? In my opinion, yes, for whatever that’s worth.”
It’s worth nothing, Randy.
If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all – didn’t your momma’s teach you that lesson?
Apparently not.
Next time these two want to share their opinions, when they put cowboy boots in their mouth by uttering something stupid, I hope they choke on their spurs.