At last week's Academy of Country Music Awards, it seemed like a parade of blondes: Sugarland won for best duo, Taylor Swift for top album and Carrie Underwood for entertainer of the year.
Jennifer Nettles also received a special award recognizing her songwriting. On Sugarland's most recent album, she and Kristian Bush wrote a song called "Steve Earle" in which they fantasize about asking the alt-country hero to write a song for them.
We asked Nettles to tell us what she'd write if she had to pen songs about Swift, Underwood and herself:
TAYLOR SWIFT
"I may write one about all her ex-boyfriends and all the songs she writes about them. That seems to be a theme that the young girls tend to grasp onto."
CARRIE UNDERWOOD
"I think of songs being sort of sound bites or windows into the person. She has a mixed bag of songs. When I think about a common thread, it's more of a production factor than topical or contextual or lyrical. Something with a lot of shine and sheen. A lot of slick on it."
JENNIFER NETTLES
"It would be raw and it would be real. If you could write a song that was like 'Steel Magnolias' -- specifically, the scene where they go to the cemetery and Sally Fields loses it. It's so, so powerful. And then it breaks into the part where everybody is laughing. If you could write a song that would make someone cry and laugh at the same time, that would be the song that I hope would tell my story. Heavy on the laughter, though."
JON BREAM
