GARNER -- It’s becoming a bit old hat for
Scotty McCreery — another country music association announces award
nominees, and the Garner High School student is a contender.
On
Monday, CMT announced that Scotty’s music video for “The Trouble With
Girls” has been nominated for “Breakthrough Video of the Year” at this
year’s CMT Music Awards, to air on June 6 on the country music cable
channel.
Fans can go online to vote for Scotty at
www.cmt.com through June 4. Carrie Underwood – like Scotty, a former “American Idol” winner – leads the nominations with five.
Scotty’s fellow nominees in the breakthrough category have all
competed against him before – Lauren Alaina, who has runner-up when
Scotty won the 10th season of “Idol” a year ago; Brantley Gilbert and
Hunter Hayes, both of whom were nominated against Scotty for Best New
Artist at the Academy of Country Music Awards earlier this month; and
Pistol Annies and Thompson Square, both of whom were nominated against
Scotty for Top New Artist in December’s American Country Awards.
Scotty,
an 18-year-old who will soon be graduating from Garner High, is 2-0 in
previous nominations — winning at both the Academy of Country Music
Awards and the American Country Awards.
“The Trouble With Girls”
is a special video for Scotty and his classmates — it was shot at Garner
High last fall, using students as extras. The teenage girl seen
flirting with Scotty in a chemistry lab, Gabi Dugal, accompanied him to
Garner High’s prom on Saturday night.
After graduation, Scotty is
scheduled to go back on tour with country singer Brad Paisley. And in
the fall, he plans to enroll as a freshman at N.C. State University.
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