Jada Watson

L’ère de la chanson de l’été est-elle révolue? La chanson de l’été 2025 se fait toujours attendre… tellement qu’on a même déjà annoncé la mort de cette tradition annuelle. Explications.

Je suis toujours ravie de discuter avec Daniel Blanchette Pelletier des défis fascinants liés aux données ! Cette conversation était très intéressante !

ici.radio-canada.ca/info/2025/bi...

The Grammys country category change was long overdue. It's bigger than Beyoncé. | Opinion Beyonce won the 2025 Best Country Album Grammy. Going forward, the country album category will be split into traditional and contemporary awards.

Read here: www.tennessean.com/story/opinio...

With a pathway toward Grammy consideration in either direction, "the most significant impact of the Recording Academy announcement is the creation of more opportunity in country music — including for Black artists.
And that’s what we’ve been fighting for all along.”
@andreawillwrite.bsky.social

Shaboozey's side-eye at the AMAs was him reckoning with his place in country music | Opinion At the American Music Awards, Shaboozey questioned Megan Moroney's assertion that the Carter Family invented country music.

www.tennessean.com/story/opinio...

"With his raised eyebrows and slight chuckle, Shaboozey didn’t just cast doubt on country music’s century-old fiction. He also acknowledged the Black creatives who will never stand at the front of a stage or sing into a mic—but who are important, and influential." @andreawillwrite.bsky.social
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Trump Costs America Highlighting the real people whose lives have been ruined, the good American jobs that are being destroyed, and the important public goods being lost.

It is one thing to see the insane numbers of government jobs being cut. It's another thing to read the testimonies of civil servants who were axed. Check this out. And if you've been knifed in the back, add your story: trumpcostsamerica.com

I’ll text you as soon as we finalize dates. We had paused planning when tariffs were announced but we’ll be booking everything soon.

😬 yep! Will come to you!
Actually my fam and I are planning a trip to NYC in late June/early July to see Cassadee Pope in Titanique!

🤣🤣🤣 same. But it’s passed so we need another reason to get together!

And thank you for sharing, my friend! Hope to see you soon! 💛

Could not agree more.

Thank you for sharing!

It really really is.

Read more at bit.ly/SongData-Redlining2023 or www.SongData.ca

More data to come soon, delving into the cyclic relationship between radio-charts-awards-labels and even songwriting when the industry continues to look to past practices, conventions, and data to make decisions about the future. ✖️

Despite our urging for radio to build pathways for Black female country artists alongside TEXAS HOLD 'EM, the format failed to platform Black women.

Again.

Radio played TEXAS HOLD 'EM just as much as they needed... until they didn't anymore...

And played Black female country artists at 0.005%.

In 2024, songs by women declined to 8.39% -- again, mostly for songs by white women (8.23%), with songs by Black women being programmed at just 0.09% last year.

Songs by white women filtered out of the current-to-gold pipeline & played 1 time per hr, while Black women are excluded from programming.

1 year ago, I participated for the 1st time in the annual meeting of Country Radio Seminar to discuss representation in radio programming.

I reported that songs by women had declined to 9.81% by 2023--mostly for white women, w/0.02% by Black women. How do things look 1 year later?

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an academic flyer, UNC colors, with text detailing a talk with a title, time, and date, as well as a headshot

Triangle folks! come here me talk about Noye’s Fludde (on Britten’s birthday no less!) at UNC! 3:30pm, Person Recital Hall

Issue #78: CMA Recap (grimace face) and subscriber playlist We just couldn't wait until next week to talk about...whatever that was

couldn't resist a little CMA Awards recap on Don't Rock the Inbox today...
www.dontrocktheinbox.com/p/issue-78-c...

Right out of the gate this is the most cringe-worthy hosting script I’ve ever witnessed. Feel like it’s time for the CMAs to get some writers who can write something other than jokes with sexual innuendo and an undertone of sexual harassment…

Here are some of the most recent country music festivals lineups. As you see, very limited Black representation shown at all. Looks like there are zero Black women….

(Instead of Post and Jelly)

New song - good news

I’m pretty obsessed with Shaboozey’s stomp-clap-hey jam.

He belongs with them, they belong with him. They’re his sweetheart.

it’s coming back…

I think I’ll be okay. It was a rough time, though. Haha

have listened to more stomp-clap-hey music in the last two days than in the last two decades.

Thank you, Rachel! I am slowly learning the ropes. I’ll be ranting against the system in no time!