The 2012 CMA Awards are pretty much like the high school prom of country music awards shows -- it's a biggie! Taylor Swift, of course, was one of the big honorees as well as a performer, and she got her share of ribbing courtesy of the hosts, Carrie Underwood and Brad Paisley.
I've been doing this a long time. I started in radio during the rise and fall of grunge. I watched techno music get popular, fade out, and come back again. I've been in radio for 2 waves of boy bands (Backstreet Boys vs. N'Sync, then One Direction vs. The Wanted). I remember when it was all the rage to put movie clips in songs ("you had me at hello"), and when every pop diva had t