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Tim McGraw on the Grammys
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May 1, 2007 — As a bonus to the recent feature on Tim McGraw in the print edition of Entertainment Weekly, its website, ew.com, is running an extended Q&A in which Tim talks about touring, politics and a bone he has to pick with the Grammy Awards.

This year at the Grammys, Rascal Flatts and Carrie Underwood were asked to perform an Eagles tribute instead of being allowed to do their own hits, and a few years ago Tim, Keith Urban and Gretchen Wilson similarly got shoehorned into doing a tribute to Southern rock. Tim says he understands that but has another issue with the show.

"Well, the Grammys are trying to do a TV show and trying to please people," he said. "They're trying to get ratings up to keep their jobs, and you can't blame them for that. The only thing that bothered me with the Grammys this year was the whole thing with people calling in to vote on who gets to sing with Justin Timberlake at the end."

Tim says he thought the stunt diminished "the integrity of the Grammys and what it stands for — which is artists and musicians spending their whole lives developing a craft, and doing something that's their life's work. It got trivialized a little bit with something like that, especially the time it took away from a couple other artists who would have had the opportunity to perform.

"But you can't control how they want you to sing," he continues. "I do think that people are nominated and are having success because of their songs, not because of other people's success. So I think that's got to be taken into consideration when they're having people do all those different, crazy things."
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