{"id":372,"date":"2007-09-07T01:00:20","date_gmt":"2007-09-07T01:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/?p=372"},"modified":"2007-09-07T01:00:20","modified_gmt":"2007-09-07T01:00:20","slug":"the_last_one_to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/?p=372","title":{"rendered":"The last one to know"},"content":{"rendered":"

I shouldn’t read comments on YouTube; I really shouldn’t. I’m not sure why the overwhelming majority of the comments on YouTube videos are posted by subliterate morons, but I have seen enough of them to know that this is the case. I know that reading the comments will just infuriate me, so it would be best for everyone if I just refrained from looking.
\nBut sometimes I forget. In this case, I was watching this new music video<\/a>, a duet sung by Reba McEntire and Kelly Clarkson. I foolishly allowed my eyes to stray downward, and found myself reading this:
\n“I didn’t even know Reba could sing, it sounds amazing with her, the original is great too though.”<\/em>
\nYou didn’t know. . . that Reba McEntire<\/a>. . . could sing<\/em>?
\nI know she’s done a lot of acting, and perhaps you first encountered her in that context. But still — you didn’t know<\/em> she could sing<\/em>?
\nShe’s one of the best-selling country music artists of all time: over 60 million<\/em> records sold. Her first #1 single was in 1982. She’s recorded 29 albums and earned 72 awards. The Country Music Association named her Female Vocalist of the Year four years in a row. And you didn’t know she could sing<\/em>?
\nI know a lot of people don’t listen to country or pay any attention to the careers of country musicians. But Reba is a lot more than just<\/em> a country singer. She’s a crossover international pop megastar. That acting work of hers that I referred to earlier? It included performing on Broadway in Annie Get Your Gun<\/em>, and at Carnegie Hall in South Pacific<\/em>: classics of musical<\/em> theatre.
\nYes, Reba McEntire can sing.
\nGood Lord.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m not sure why the overwhelming majority of the comments on YouTube videos are posted by subliterate morons, but I have seen enough of them to know that this is the case.
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