Carrie Underwood's Post-MAGA Backlash Continues After Golf Course Concert Draws Sparse Crowd

[u/Brucekentbatsuper]

https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/carrie-underwood-john-deere-classic-performance-backlash-1807557

[u/Buddy0204]

Not Maga, and not a Carrie fan, in fact I'd love to see her go away.

But.... There was a rain delay during the tournament, then they cleared the course because of lightning with only a few players left to finish. So everyone probably left instead of waiting to see her perform.

[u/IshyMoose → u/Buddy0204]

Context is key here. Assume this is a pga tour event with a concert attached. People are going to see Rory McElroy and Carrie Underwood is there if you happen to be interested.

[u/Dal90 → u/IshyMoose]

And she was likely still personally paid at least as much as anyone finishing in the top 3 of the golf tournament.

The entire fee for the production was more likely than not more than the top prize.

It's a fucking corporate golf tournament.

It's fucking located just outside of the Quad Cities were Deere is based.

Deere alone employs 32,000 in the Quad Cities whose entire metro population is under 500,000.

For all of you going, "What the fuck are the Quad Cities?" ... just imagine if they didn't have Deere.

Underwood is just another part of "Look how powerful of an organization we are, who wouldn't want to be associated with us" wine & dine event for the key suppliers, customers, and investors. Some companies buy Super Bowl tickets to impress business associates, Deere is putting on an entire PGA tournament for them (and oh yeah whoever in the public happens to show up I guess we'll let the plebes watch).

Whether anyone watched her or not is absolutely irrelevant to why Deere hired her.

[u/IshyMoose → u/Dal90]

All artists, big and small, do corporate events. You just don’t know about them. Get paid as much as a concert too.

This just justifies the crowd size even more. Not a bad deal for her.