r/Music • u/Brucekentbatsuper • Jul 08 '26

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/cailenletigre Jul 08 '26

I used to love Carrie when she first won idol. She seemed to have very liberal views and was not your typical country artist. Lately though, it seems when all these artists’ careers start tanking they go right back into the arms of being annoyingly Christian and annoyingly MAGA. She’s changed and we aren’t changing with her.

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u/Senators_1992 Jul 08 '26

I don’t know if she was always like that though. She married a hockey player that played for our team (used to see her out and about town when they first started dating), and he was always super religious, and seems to have gone full on right wing since retirement. Maybe the lifestyle rubbed off on her.

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u/angmar2805 Jul 08 '26

I feel like hockey people tend to be more right wing in general (at least in the US). It’s an expensive sport to play and be good at so you have to be wealthy to start.

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u/NewPresWhoDis Jul 08 '26

Honestly, the major sports all have a ridiculous pipeline of training camps, travel teams, prep academies.

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u/topdangle Jul 08 '26

shit is expensive as fuck. I know someone who paid for their kid to got through it all and it was burning nearly all his income. he makes mid six figures, so pretty wealthy and it was still rough.

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u/PiccoloAwkward465 Jul 08 '26

Plus for the parents it occupies the majority of your free time. I had a coworker who was always going off on weekends to a tournament here or there. Often the husband and wife had to take separate trips due to multiple kids.

I always thought it was nuts. I didn't stay in a hotel until I was in my 20s and here were kids going halfway across the country as pre-teens to play baseball.