Did Dwight Yoakam Inspire Country’s Snarkiest Hit?
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- Опубліковано 11 жов 2024
- Did Dwight Yoakam inspire one of country music's snarkiest hits?
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In 1990, Mary Chapin Carpenter performed her song "Opening Act" at the CMA Awards. The lyrics (seen below) painted an unflattering picture of a country music star, but was it based on a real experience.
Years later, Carpenter would explain who inspired "Opening Act" and admit that she really did not want to perform it at the CMA Awards. Many people thought she was referring to Dwight Yoakam because of the lyrics about balding and tight jeans.
Do you think it's true?
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Mary Chapin Carpenter, "Opening Act" Lyrics:
You don’t have a backstage room of your own / You just have feedback in your microphone / ‘Cause you don’t get a soundcheck / ‘Cause you’re not worth the time / You’re gonna have to face it / You’re no better than slime / You don’t know me, I’m the opening act.
There’s a cold cut platter and beer for the crew / Don’t get the impression that there’s any for you / ‘Cause you’re at the bottom of the pecking order / Even the bouncer at the door comes before you / You don’t know me, I’m the opening act.
The right attitude will get me such a long way / An optimistic view will make it OK / When some fool in the front row yells, You Suck / I’ll thank him profusely and get ready to duck / I don’t have a hit in the Billboard charts / I don’t have a limousine that stretches three blocks /Ready to take me from door to door / Just like that asshole I’m opening for / He doesn’t know me, I’m his opening act.
Now I’m not going bald, so I don’t wear a hat / Tight jeans don’t fit me, I’m a little too fat / I can’t sing like a frog blowing farts through his nose / So I don’t expect you’ll like me, but that’s how it goes / Now for 37 minutes I sang out my heart / I was so damn nervous I just wanted to barf / This is my career, and I’m paying my dues / If I ever get rich and famous, I’ll guess I’ll be an asshole too / ‘Till then, you don’t know me, I’m the opening act.
Ok, so it's about no one in particular...Love Dwight no matter what
Love Dwight Yoakum. Don’t care who doesn’t
I wasn't born yet when Mary performed it, but I can tell by reading the last verse, and I love Dwight!
At least she learned how to treat her Opening Act, I saw her in concert with Radney Foster and she came out and did backup vocals on his song "Nobody Wins".
I felt like the so called Honky tonk man! Just like Dwight Yoakam did! Right here for the country! 👨👢🎸🎵🎵🎶🎶
She does have a cardboard cutout of Dwight yoakam in her video I feel lucky
I actually think so and I love Dwight!
Great song, MCC! It's definitely about Dwight Yoakam. A band I managed opened for Dwight years ago, and Dwight and his road crew were just miserable to us. No sound check, no respect, just complete and total jerks. They didn't even let us load our gear onto the stage until the doors were open and the audience was already walking in. One thing that made us all laugh, though, was that his band and crew all called Dwight "Elvis" behind his back.
I worked at a country music station at the time, and the on-air crew pretty much all agreed it was about him-including our morning drive jock, who had worked at the Palomino Club in LA and had met him several times. His experience with Yoakam when fans weren't there mirrors yours.
One clue that wasn't mentioned in the video is "I don't have a limousine that stretches three blocks", a year after he had a hit with "Long White Cadillac."
she also does a little Dwight dance during that line doing it
This was the highlight of that show.
sure it sounds like him but it sounds like a lot of country singers, mentions a hat, tight jeans, and nasal singing. but that fits a lot of singers actually. that's kind of the cliche of a typical country singer
County singer get longer together.there one two time miss fixed.open act work hid line.he possible told her thing do or not.she dint like mad sounds soup bat thank get what she what.he done better she did.the rap you know the have to pants down past there ass.look guy I am cool.
@@codyhardy4872 ??? English, please!
@@Justme77400 go back school leaned how read please
@@codyhardy4872 Justme77 is right. You are unintelligible. Obviously English isn't your first language, but I'm sure google translate can do better than this.
I am Still Love Og MUSIC...It helped me Not to Hate..and Ito Read Much more Than your own Pain...I LOVE the Song.it helped a Very close Person at the Time
Ha! I have a feeling even he would laugh at those lyrics and they don’t describe anyone else hahaha
It can't be Dwight. He's one of the sweetest people you could ever meet. If it is him maybe he was having a bad day?? I doubt it though.
Love Dwight Yoakum but I know MCC wrote the tune about him for sure🎶😉.
Maybe it was a combination of several people she had the misfortune of working with!
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Chris Cagle didn't have nice things to say about Dwight Yoakam either. I love him though.
Chris who? Lol
@@danieltaylor4819 Exactly, and who knows the circumstances? It could have been at a bad time or something. Either way, I love Dwight's music.
Seen Dwight several times in concert. He's still the best in my opinion.
@@JustinR941 Judging by the number of people (including people I worked with at a country station) who tell very much the same story about different interactions, it seems unlikely they were all just "bad times".
@@almostfm I fully accept that you could be right. I don't know him personally. I just heard Chris Cagle tell a story about Dwight not being such a nice guy. I don't know.
DY never had a limo duh!
If it was for him less he west a one hit wonder.she been 25 yaurs of singing I just find who was.i hold of him I state lesson to miuce
What?
wonder if she got any fall out from others about this song thought it was funny
My goodness stop talking..............get to the music!!.