You Say You Love Me and Let's Make Love . It was cool to put on a different skin and do that song and create a little tension. On Things Change , McGraw makes the boldest musical statement of his career, reminding country audiences of the flak that performers such as Elvis Presley and Hank Williams took from Music City's industry powers before subsequent generations turned them into icons. When McGraw performed the song during the Country Music Association's awards ceremony in September, he received both a standing ovation and stinging criticism. I don't understand that argument.
Music is music.
If you start making records according to how critics or other people in the industry think you ought to make records, to me, that's what selling out is. You don't sell out 'cause you're making records you want to make, even if they're bad. When I sing, it's going to be country, and I'll cut tracks any way I want to. He may cut tracks any way he wants to, but decisions about when to release them, apparently, lie with his record company. McGraw originally had envisioned using his performance of Things Change on October's CMA Awards to set up a November release of Set This Circus Down .