This part, at least, is patently not true. Her angry reaction doesn’t occur until after hearing the name and having time to react. She starts by celebrating, then understands she has lost, and reacts with anger.
I hate to call people liars, so I won’t. But I don’t believe her if she says she was “joking.”
She throws her hands up in the air, in exasperation, then says “What?” There’s no “celebrating.” Obviously planned and prepped.
I guess we’re all idjits!
Is a country audience going to get that joke? I wouldn’t have (I heard something vague about the Kanye thing, but not enough that it would have occured to me).
Good question, but…
Yes, it seems to start before the name is mentioned. So what was the plan if she had won?
I’m not saying it wasn’t a joke. But certainly if the ruling on the field is “serious,” there isn’t enough video evidence to overturn that ruling.
I’m willing to believe it was a joke; it was pretty funny to watch. But if it’s a joke, it went over very, very badly. There’s no good press about it (that I can tell), the “joking” statment comes across as weaselling out, and if it was indeed a joke, she was quite poor in her delivery.
Even if she meant it to be funny, it’s totally backfired on her. And I think that’s the funniest part.
I hadn’t heard of Kanye’s hissy fit. In fact, I still don’t know who Kanye is.
Oh, and Wile E, I laughed.
No, she throws her hands up in victory, smiling, “oh yay, I won!”–and then she realizes what she’s just heard and loses it. Just beforehand, she looks completely assured of victory, looking around and nodding like that, as if she’s saying “yep, I’ve got it.” It looked to me like she was absolutely confident of winning.
Nope. Not the way it looks to me, at least. When she throws her hands up in the air, she’s smiling. It sure looks to me like she’s celebrating her win until it sinks in. But her hands go in the air happily.
Regardless of what actually happened, it was anything but obvious.
Some information that hasn’t been brought up yet in this thread is that she and Tim McGraw have done this as a joke before!
The difference was that previously they were up against eachother, making it obvious that it was a joke, and therefore not even talked about. I think she saw the camera directly in her face (as opposed to if she were in the audience where it would be farther away) and decided that would be a good time to do it again. If she was really upset I find it hard to believe she would have been so dramatic about the whole thing and that instead she would’ve put on a fake smile or something. I’m not a huge fan of her music, but I believe she is way too intelligent not to realize that earnestly acting in disgust would be a detriment to her image. Country fans judge things unrelated to singers’ music just as harshly, if not moreso, than the actual music. Faith knows that. I believe all she did was not pull the off the joke well enough.
If she was making a stab at Kanye West it was pretty weak – I watched his fit on Youtube and there were not enought similarities between the two incidents to make it at all obvious if that’s what she was aiming for.
It doesn’t matter anyway – even if she was joking it was Diva Behavior. She took attention away (and is still taking it away) from Ms. Underwood. The other women behaved properly – smiling politely and applauding is exactly what you are supposed to do when you lose an award to someone else.
I still feel that there would not have been enough time for her to jump from waiting-in-nervous-anticipation-of-the-winner mode to let’s-play-a-lil-jokey-joke mode. Unless she knew going into it that she lost, there would have been no way she would have been able to transition between those two states of mind so quickly.
I agree with jackelope. Even if Hill was “joking” she was still wrong for trying to steal attention for herself from Underwood.
People make oodles of money and sell oodles of records and still get upset about award shows? Yes, a few of us got together and decided that of the four or five female major label country singers who sold more than 1 million records last year, you’re not the best. Sorry!