Squeaky clean
American Idol winner, grandma-friendly country star, and fan of cherry pie Carrie Underwood is turning out to be as much of an '80s metalhead as my co-editor. After affirming the universality of
Skid Row and Guns N' Roses for the benefit of YouTube viewers, she's now kickstarted Vince Neil's heart,
performing with the Crue singer at a Nashville tour stop this week. If Carrie records an album of shlocky, pop-countrified hair metal covers, well, I won't want to
listen to it necessarily, but its existence will at least warm my heart. Because the Internet is wonderful, magical place where kids can eat candy as soon as they want, there's already a clip of the duet, and we've got it after the jump:
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Yesterday Robin Leach's Las Vegas gossip blog reported that Motley Crue had signed a $100 million deal with Live Nation that would span three albums and three world tours. Leach claimed to have gotten the scoop from Vince Neil, who was throwing a birthday party at Koi in Las Vegas and who was all smiles, saying that Motley's first world tour under the deal would kick off in July and that by the time the deal was up, the band would be celebrating its 37th anniversary. But then Nikki Sixx fired back via an e-mailed press release from his publicist, saying that Vince was, once again, just talking crazy talk!
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Sorry, suckas: Vince Neil's cruise is sold out. If you didn't get tickets to this once-in-a-lifetime event where the sad inhabitants of Behind The Music get drunk on a boat and wonder what happened to the good old days man, you can think of me in January when you're freezing and I'm sucking back Cuervo and playing poker in a wet t-shirt with Blackie Lawless. [
