Scotty McCreery & Lauren Alaina Make Their Opry Debut – AUDIO – VIDEO

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attends the 2011 CMT Music Awards at the Bridgestone Arena on June 8, 2011 in Nashville, Tennessee.

Scotty McCreery and Lauren Alaina made their Grand Ole Opry debuts tonight in Nashville! Listen below.

Lauren sings Leann Rimes “Blue” and her single “Like my Mother Does”. She tells the audience that her legs are shaking, she’s so nervous.

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Scotty sings “Love You This Big” and George Strait’s “Check Yes or No”. After, Lauren joins Scotty on stage for a special presentation from the general manager of the Opry who presents the duo with special commemorative plaques and the jerseys they will wear in tomorrow’s charity softball game.

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Scotty sings at the Opry

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  • mhann

    You are right about Anthony and Carrie singing the same song, but Anthony actually did a better version of it than Carrie did, IMO. I also think the judges gave him better comments on it as well, but I could be mistaken. It was a long time ago.

  • randomjoe

    Actually, it belongs to the long deceased legendary country star Patsy Cline.

    This is a common misconception. Patsy never performed the song. It was, however, purportedly written with Patsy in mind.

    If Lauren, indeed, has Haley on her iPod as she has said, then it would be logical to assume that this could have had an natural effect on Lauren choosing it; this as others have pointed out is a good old school country song for the Opry which is a fair distance from Lauren’s normal style.

  • http://www.kellydeanhansen.com MahlerFan

    OK–I’ve taken some time to breathe and I need to come in here and moderate my views a bit.

    I’m like James on Twitter. Even after stewing about it, I kind of put my foot in my mouth.

    I’m not going to say that it was “wrong” for Lauren to sing “Blue.” In fact, I’m going to subscribe to Kirsten’s hypothesis that it may have even been an homage to Haley. It’s possible that Haley may have even worked with her a bit on the yodel (and while the song is definitely more Lauren’s style than Haley’s, Haley’s yodel was infinitely better by any standard).

    What I *am* going to say is that it wasn’t *wise* for Lauren to do “Blue.” Obviously some rabid fantard like me was going to come and criticise her for it. And I’m not the only one. There’s a storm of comparisons going on at the scary boards. Why even bring it on? There were many other songs she could have chosen. And believe me, I have been VERY positive toward Lauren the past few weeks. There was obviously going to be comparision. And I think one reason I came off as so passionate in my comments was because of the song’s very intimately personal meaning to Haley.

    So there you go. I don’t think it was a good decision on Lauren’s part. But I don’t think Haley is going to care one way or the other.

    I think part of the frustration is that it’s been a rather trying couple of days for Haley’s fans. Slezak didn’t post the interview, everyone’s pestering him for it, and now he’s at the Belmont Stakes all day. She finally tweeted yesterday, and was overrun with fanntard tweens begging her to tweet them–must have been rough. And then, at some point this morning, the conspiracy theory Haleyblog guy got paranoid and moved his blog somewhere else, then started posting up a storm on the scary boards. I really wish he’d go away. Essentially, Slezak’s delay on the interview is making Haley fans a little jumpy (again, check out the scary boards). The tweeting got us a little excited, but we’re kind of worked up right now.

    I think my reaction to Lauren singing “Blue” might be attributable to that–my first knee-jerk was “How dare she!” Now it’s tempered down to “she really shouldn’t have done that.” Thanks for all the civil responses, though. I think I’ve got my moment of crazy out of the system.

  • Mike M

    This is a common misconception. Patsy never performed the song. It was, however, purportedly written with Patsy in mind.

    You are absolutely correct. However, when LeAnn recorded it much was made of the fact that it was written for Patsy, and everyone was thrilled that this young girl could do such a marvelous job on a “Patsy Cline song.” Still one of LeAnn’s best vocals in my mind. Anyway, because of all the publicity surrounding the song at the time, it’s always going to be a Patsy Cline song to me that LeAnn absolutely did justice. So did Lauren.

  • OldHag

    However, when LeAnn recorded it much was made of the fact that it was written for Patsy, and everyone was thrilled that this young girl could do such a marvelous job on a “Patsy Cline song.”

    This.

  • OldHag

    Obviously some rabid fantard like me was going to come and criticise her for it. And I’m not the only one. There’s a storm of comparisons going on at the scary boards.

    But the people on those boards are not the ones she is trying to reach. American Idol is over, the point now is for her to appeal to country fans. My initial reaction to her singing that song was “that was a good choice of a traditional song for her to do.” Haley didn’t even cross my mind. She has a chance of getting me to buy her music, which most of the rabid Haley fantards would rather stick a needle in their eye than do. There was nothing unwise about it.

  • http://myspace.com/girlgeek mj

    Reminder:

    Oy,

    Seriously. Calm. The. Eff. Down. I’m deleting the most incendiary posts on the “Blue” matter.

  • http://myspace.com/girlgeek mj

    Oh. And this ain’t the scary boards. Please don’t behave like you are posting there. My blog is not the place for extreme, defensive fantarding. It will get you banned eventually. Make a note of that.

  • http://www.kellydeanhansen.com MahlerFan

    My blog is not the place for extreme, defensive fantarding. It will get you banned eventually. Make a note of that.

    Duly noted.

  • bean99

    Nice that they both got a chance to perform at the Opry. If I was still living there I may have gone. I don’t remember Haley doing “Blue” and can’t listen to Lauren’s version yet so can’t compare the 2 but I never think anyone owns a song on Idol.

  • car3278sweet

    mj says:
    06/11/2011 at 4:48 pm
    Reminder:

    Oy,

    Seriously. Calm. The. Eff. Down. I’m deleting the most incendiary posts on the “Blue” matter.

    heh. Well, I think this is the best post of the thread.

  • http://myspace.com/girlgeek mj

    Reminder:

    Please stay on topic, which is Scotty & Lauren’s Opry debut. No threadjacking, please.

  • hoa_teca

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Q8qZAkqgD4&feature=player_embedded

    This is a clear video of Scotty’s performance. He is really adorable.

  • sagi

    But I’m racking my brain trying to come up with another instance of a contestant–winner, runner-up, or whatever–performing a song that is so closely associated with another contestant from their own season, and in this case so soon after the season.

    Well, it wasn’t from the contestant phase of Idol, but Danny Gokey started performing “Hard to Handle” in his concerts, after it was Matt Giraud’s Idol tour song, and closely associated with him. *shrugs*

  • mzbet

    LOL Love the guys in the video background “fangirling” with the best of ‘em! “Git ‘em bo!” Happy to see and hear men enjoying Scotty as well as the girls.

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