Jason Aldean, Reba Voice Disappointment in CMA Nominees

Some of Country Music’s biggest stars have voiced disappointments in this year's CMA Award nominations for Entertainer of the Year.
 
Reba McEntire told The Boot that she was surprised with the non-traditional nominees for the CMA’s highest award.
 
“I have heard they are looking for a new regime, wanting to turn things around and to kind-of mix up the shuffle,” Reba, who won Entertainer of the Year in 1986, said. “Well, they definitely did.”
 
"The only thing that I was disappointed in was the acts that have been headlining for so many years, they were not nominated...In particular, Tim McGraw, Carrie Underwood and Taylor Swift, Kenny Chesney, Rascal Flatts. I would've assumed they would've been in that nomination before Zac Brown Band, Lady Antebellum and Miranda Lambert."
 
Jason Aldean, who has recently had five singles climb to the top ten and performed a headlining tour this summer, was left off the nomination list for Entertainer of the Year. However, he said he understands how the nomination and award process work and isn’t upset at being left off the list.
 
“Bottom line is it’s not based on anything,” he said. “It’s based on who can rally the most troops for their guy, and sometimes this guy wins and sometimes that guy wins.”
 
Aldean said the CMA voting regulations keep the fans from seeing the mechanics of the selection process.
 
“The average fan doesn’t understand how all that stuff works and the industry probably doesn’t want them to,” he said.
 
Miranda Lambert was nominated for the award, and she said that despite performing two headlining tours this year, she understands the Entertainer of the Year award is one that must be earned.
 
“It’s about everthing you’ve done in the past year,” she said.
 
Lambert said although she has been busy, she was skeptical if she had done enough to win the award.
 
“You know, I feel like I still have a ways to go before I deserve to take that home,” she said.
 
Source: TheBoot.com