my dear

my grandma loves carrie underwood. like loooooooves. since carrie came onto the scene after winning american idol my grandma has always talked freely about how much she adores her because she's this nice, wholesome southern girl. oh, and she's pretty too. in fact, i've often joked about my grandma wanting to adopt her as a grandchild and how i will always be second best compared to carrie (all the while knowing this would never actually be true ;).

tonight, i had the following phone conversation with my dear grandma:

gma: "oh carrie's on tv! she's performing at the cma's...can you hear her singing??"

me: "no, grandma, i can't hear her."

gma: "ok just a sec lemme turn up the volume on my television..."

grandma turns up the television volume so now instead of absolutely nothing i hear the slight whisper of a television

me: "still can't hear it grandma...oh well."

gma: "she's performing with some guy who has long black hair. and she's wearing a black dress. i don't like it. i don't know what it is about the dress, i just don't like it."

me: "it's a short black dress??"

gma: "yes, it's short. but i don't know, that's what everyone's wearing in today's fashion i guess. i don't know who that long haired guy is she's singing with."

me: "is he a country guy?"

gma: "i don't think so, he sure doesn't sound country!"

me: (wracking my brain trying to think of a long haired dude who doesn't sound country but does a lot of duets)"is it kid rock??"

gma: "does kid rock have black hair??"

me: "no...."

gma: "and the song they're singing...i don't like it very much. can you hear it??"

me: "no grandma, i still can't hear it."

at this point i was dying to try and figure out who carrie was singing a duet with but couldn't find any information when i googled it. it wasn't until a couple of hours later that i finally found out...

carrie's long black haired duet partner?? steven tyler

the song they were singing?? walk this way

oh grandma. i love her.