Did you see Kellie Pickler's performance Wednesday night on the Country Music Association awards on ABC? It had to be the most dramatic live performance I've ever seen.
Her music video for the song, while nice and very polished, lacks the power and raw emotion of her live performance.
I am not an American Idol watcher, so I have not known why Kellie Pickler was since her appearance on there. I've heard the name, but couldn't have picked her out of a photo lineup before seeing Wednesday's performance. And I guess I've been off the country music bandwagon for a while. Even the best country music stations seem to play too much of the same songs over and over. I got bored with the radio airplay, not the genre of music. So I guess I've missed Miss Pickler's songs out there.
I will definitely be adding the song she sang on the CMAs, "I Wonder" to my personal music collection.
The song resonates with me, and scared the crap out of me, probaby because I have missed so much of my daughter's life. I too wonder about the things she wonders about. Does she wonder why I haven't always been there? What questions may she have for me?
I hope that simple word -- forgiveness -- is something my daughter is able to do.
I'm not ashamed to say the tears streaming down Kellie Pickler's face during her CMA performance were matched in volume by my own. The words she sang were obviously not just lyrics to a song. They were the story of a life, real and raw, painful and yet proud.
Good Morning America did a nice job covering the story behind the song and Pickler's emotional CMA performance.
Bravo young lady. Thanks for letting me cry right along with you, as a flawed parent who wonders too.
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