<p>The show explicitly showed Lamar telling his aide that he held Teddy responsible for his prosecution and basically indicating that the aide should arrange to have Teddy eliminated as a witness. That was back in late November, I think.</p>
<p>I think the point of the Juliette/God thing is to riff on (a) the power of social media, and its growing importance in the entertainment business, (b) the ease with which any kind of public action can be distorted and manipulated in social media, (c) the fish bowl in which celebrities live, (d) the differences among Juliette’s inner core, her often ambiguous or mean actions, the public persona she tries to project, and the way she is portrayed in public beyond her control, and (e) the weird way in which contemporary country music has to walk a tightrope between the sex, drugs, and rock-and-roll it so patently sells and the conservative moral beliefs (and often hypocrisy) of a meaningful portion of its fans.</p>
<p>I must have missed that part, JHS, I don’t remember it!</p>
<p>Your comments about Juliette make a lot of sense to me. Your fishbowl remark reminds me of Rayna talking to Luke about the difficulties of becoming a “celebrity couple” in the public eye.</p>
<p>Good points JHS. So I think this is heading toward Juliette getting dropped by her label (largely orchestrated by the reality show girl calling the media and ratting her out as a so-called homewrecker). She will then find a home at Highway 65.</p>
<p>Kacy Musgraves is a young up and coming country artist. She writes and sings about anything she wants to. She is on the verge of making it big. I see a prominent spot for her at this year’s CMA Fest. Maybe even a full set on the big stage. If not, certainly a song or two on the smaller stage at LP Field along with a few appearances around lower Broadway that week.</p>
<p>^^^Sorry, I was trying to make the point that current country acts aren’t very concerned with being overly conservative anymore. A huge act like Juliette would not suffer the consequences she’s enduring in today’s climate.</p>
<p>I believe you. But at the same time, I also think if someone like Taylor Swift got caught sleeping with a married man and then was recorded saying “there is no god,” it would get pretty ugly… especially if she was already in trouble to begin with. Juliette’s fans were starting to turn on her to begin with, she needed whatshername opening for her to fill stadiums. I feel like Juliette is/was like a Taylor Swift, she has a very YOUNG pop audience (perhaps more pop than country) whose parents didn’t like her anymore before this started after the shoplifting incident, the drama with the football player, and her various other indiscretions which escape me at the moment.</p>
<p>I don’t find this THAT unbelievable, but I’m also not from Nashville or a country fan.</p>
<p>Emahee- I don’t agree with that at all. There is no resemblance between Taylor and Juliette and ai don’t think the writers are trying for that at all. Taylor is basically a model citizen who only gets negative buzz when she has a breakup! I think she was Nashville’s person of the year this past year.</p>
<p>I just meant as a mega-popular super popstar who has a very young audience, if she did these things, she would experience backlash. I don’t think the music industry has changed so much that you can have the audience and the niche that Juliette, or Taylor, has and get away with the kind of things Juliette has been doing-- or has been accused of doing. Obviously Taylor’s behavior is nothing like Juliette’s, that wasn’t my point-- my point was that their audiences are similar and with that audience I don’t think you get away with being caught on camera saying there is no god or having a sex scandal. I think if Taylor Swift did that all hell would break loose. But she is squeaky clean and that is why she is successful with the audience her music targets. (among other things)</p>
<p>I think maybe in this day and age if Juliette’s audience was older maybe there would be less backlash for her recent scandals, but since they aren’t I don’t find this that unbelievable. Her audience are pre-teens with conservative parents, of course there is backlash.</p>
<p>Well I loved the show this past week. Juliette did it her way, she told the off the record label boss, Rayna and her manager were supportive, and Juliette and Avery got together. Lamar is on his way to get mayor Teddy. It’s all good!</p>
<p>I think it says something that I like Scarlett much better on drugs!! Someone up thread mentioned the changes in the writing of the characters and I really noticed it on this week’s episode with Avery. Now, I LOVE Jonathan Jackson and am happy he’s being used more, but the original Avery was really a “bad” boy. I’m not sure I buy the new saintlier version. I know that his whole negative experience with the rap guy last season is supposed to be a “turning point” kind of thing, but…</p>
<p>^ Yeah I agree…suddenly Avery is an art-film aficionado schooling his hayseed yet superstar girlfriend in Italian cinema. Scarlet sure got hooked on those drugs lightning fast too. </p>
USA Today reports that Nashville is on the bubble for renewal. I hope they bring it back for season 3, but only if we can move towards a Rayna-Deacon relationship.
On that note, I was pleased with the scene near the end where Rayna and Deacon spoke some truth to each other and that they both were listening to each other. Maybe this is the first step towards them being together. When Luke left last night and punched the back of the seat, my lightbulb went off that he is somehow responsible for creating the mess with Maddy’s video. I don’t trust him.</p>
<p>2VU–Well that makes sense. I wasn’t sure if Luke was mad because Deacon came in and was so supportive in the interview, which he may have thought would bring Rayna and Deacon closer. I don’t trust him either–he seems to have ulterior motives. I hope they renew and I agree they need to head toward Rayna-Deacon. Since he didn’t drink this time, that was a good sign.</p>
<p>Chip Esten (Deacon) graduated from my alma mater, William and Mary. He played in a popular local band while there. The band reunited in 2008 at their old stomping ground. If I had a dime for all the time I spent in this place …
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