The best thing about the end of movie awards season isn't that we have to listen to actors bleat about how important they are – although that helps – but that cowboys awards season can get going.
And cowboy awards season has started in earnest now that the nominations for this year's Academy of Country Music awards have been announced.
It looks like it'll be a good year for Kenny Chesney, who's scored double the ACM nominations than any of his competitors. That's probably life-changing news if you follow things like this, so now you can go back to whistling through your teeth and standing on your porch shooting trespassers with your shotgun in peace again.
Remember when Kenny Chesney got married to Renee Zellweger a few years ago? Back then Renee Zellweger was one of the biggest actresses in the world and Kenny Chesney was just a mostly-unknown country artist who mainly wrote songs about bumming tractors.
But how things change. Now Kenny Chesney is on top of the world, singing his songs about trying to force his tongue into the mouth of intangible abstracts and trying to marry some booze to thousands of web-fingered country music aficionados, while Renee Zellweger stars in unfunny cartoons about bees.
It helps, of course, that Kenny Chesney hasn't fallen by the wayside like some of his other country contemporaries. While they get drunk and try to molest waitresses and shoot men in the face, Kenny Chesney has stayed on the straight and narrow – and he's won plenty of awards for doing so.
And that award tally looks set to grow even more come May at the Academy of Country Music awards, because Kenny Chesney has picked up more nominations than anyone else, as the Los Angeles Times reports:
Kenny Chesney roped a field-leading 11 nominations for the 43rd Academy of Country Music Awards on Tuesday, scoring in every major category in which he was eligible and landing nearly double the total for any other performer… Chesney got multiple nods in three categories — album, single and vocal event — because he is the performer and producer of those entries. He collected three nominations in the vocal event category: two for his double entendre-laced duet with George Strait on "Shiftwork," and a third because he joined Tim McGraw as a guest on Tracy Lawrence's single "Find Out Who Your Friends Are."
Among his ACM nominations, Kenny Chesney has picked up an Entertainer Of The Year nod. That's his category of choice – if he wins this year it'll be his fourth successive win. But what makes Kenny Chesney so entertaining? Is it his flamboyant wardrobe? His songs like Dancin' For The Groceries? The fact that he's the only country performer to have his marriage to a Hollywood star annulled on the grounds of fraud?
Or is it that country music is basically the least entertaining form of music ever created and Kenny Chesney just happens to be closest? Yes, it's probably that last one.
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