CMT Blog: Facebook

Those are his words, not mine. In this seriously funny interview with EW.com, Brad Paisley admits he doesn't know much about Facebook. "I need to learn more about it, especially if I'm gonna sing about it. Here I am, making all these claims in a song, and I guess I'm a fraud," he said. But the interview's not all about his lack of tech savvy. It's more about his new album and how it would feel wrong to be singing meaningless songs right now. Plus, he says, "I just had so much I wanted to say." Like about his lust for water, longing for the melting pot that is America and looking at the future through all different perspectives. It's cool. The interview and the album.

This is exhausting, really. Keeping up with all the ways a country singer can put himself out there online. And then you add a few imposters to that mix, and it's a full-time job just weeding out the fakes and phonies from the real thing.

Take Tim McGraw. He has roughly 395,000 friends on MySpace, about 94,000 fans on Facebook and some 7,042 followers on Twitter. Those, I think, are really him. Mostly because I believe the Twitter feed when it says, "This is the official Tim McGraw Twitter feed that is being set up for Tim. Please don't be fooled by cheap imitations! :) Stay tuned."

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It was only a matter of time before Facebook jumped on the music bandwagon. And now the hotshots who founded it are in talks with digital music sites to "deeply integrate their music experience into Facebook." Whatever that means. I am kind of a Facebook rookie, so I don't know everything there is to know about social-networking sites. But it makes a lot of sense. I like the "friends" I have on Facebook, so it stands to reason that I would like their music recommendations, as well. It narrows down the playing field a little. Facebook tried to let users upload music once before, but record labels complained. So let's hope this time they dot their virtual I's and cross their virtual T's before they go live.