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s about either's music, but there ya go.
Ace said: While common sense dictates that Lange was the architect of the hooks, there are a zillion hitmakers out there that she could collaborate with. I understand the temptation of a Vegas residency (who wants to schlep their tuchus around the world?), but there's zero reason she couldn't hook up with Max Martin (or whomever) and crank out another juggernaut of an album. Shoulda stuck with Landau.
Personally, I couldn't give two All of that. Shania did have the biggest selling album of the '90s, it can't have all been down to Mutt. Maybe competing with her incredibly successful past is holding her back as well. Her moment has kind of passed though. I hope she's happier, she seems nice and quite normal. | |
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Garth retired and pretty much stuck to it, he did some appearances here and there but he's one of the few to stick to retirement, others use it too sell a tour or album. Shania was part of a run that ran its course, the days of the BIG ALBUM are done folks, sure u get a fluke like a norah jones or adele but today we fall off the chair when TImberlake sells 700,000 in one week (and that will be the peak) Shania and people like Mariah and Celine DIon at one point were selling 700,000 numerous weeks steady, JT is gonna drop like Natalie Wood off a boat in sales after this week, Shania and others sold that number every week. "We went where our music was appreciated, and that was everywhere but the USA, we knew we had fans, but there is only so much of the world you can play at once" Magne F | |
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"Up!" - her last album - was NOT a flop. I always think "comeback" means coming back from a flop. | |
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I'm glad she's got the help she needs, and wish her the best of luck | |
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I never followed either one, but Garth had a nice bubble butt back in the day. | |
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Garth reminds me of how billy Joel could do no wrong for a long time, then he just fell out of flavor quick | |
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Garth is a guilty pleasure of mine. I've liked him since his first album and outside of Cash, Loretta Lynn, and Patsy Cline, I am NOT a country music fan. The guy is really talented and is not the typical country bumkin. I always thought the Chris Gaines music was good...it was the look that was the ultimate fail. All he had to do was take off the cowboy hat and city it up a bit and I think it would've been more successful. That hair was plain embarassing. I do know he did retire and has been one of the few artists who have stuck to his words (Cher are u listening?). Also always thought it was cool he is a huge supporter of gay rights (his sister is gay). That is a brave move in country world.
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I don't get this idea that performers who make country music and the people who like to listen to it are hillbillies, rednecks, or "white trash". So saying Garth is not a "typical country bumpkin" makes no sense to me. It's stereotyping against country music and its audience. You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton | |
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MickyDolenz said:
I don't get this idea that performers who make country music and the people who like to listen to it are hillbillies, rednecks, or "white trash". So saying Garth is not a "typical country bumpkin" makes no sense to me. It's stereotyping against country music and its audience. I'm not a fan of country so vast majority sounds the same to me. Most fans I know are intolerant republicans...that is where my country bumkin comment stemmed from. but you are right I'm sure not all artists or fans are so sorry for generalizing. |
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I grew up with country and country TV programs, so I like it. I don't listen to the current stuff that is played on the radio, which is mostly pop music with a twangy guitar. Shania is pretty much pop as well, that's why her records crossed over to a mainstream audience.
Back in the 1950's and 1960's, the King Records house band played on country & western, soul, and R&B records. You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton | |
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Clip from a recent concert in March by Shania: You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton | |
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what happened??
easy= they are icons of the '90s (Shania stretching it a lil bit through the early '00s)
their superstar days are long gone, a new (and even blander) generation of modern country artists has taken over...
also, it seems that Shania cannot write new hits without Mutt Lange...  | |
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