Comments on: 100 Greatest Women, #38: LeAnn Rimes

By: Patrick

Patrick — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 22:21:47 +0000

CMT ranked her as #38, so both sites are similar. I think she’s way underrated. I mean Blue is one of the best country albums I’ve heard! So is This Woman

By: Joseph Adrian

Joseph Adrian — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 03:25:46 +0000

The body of LeAnn’s work at the age of 26 is nothing short of amazing. Quality is timeless and cannot be put in a box and LeAnn’s music will stand the test of time. There is a lot of politics in the music business so its hard to say where LeAnn will be on this list in 10 or 15 years but if its based on her talent she should easily be in the top 10. She is clearly one of the most talented women in music today(of any genre). I agree with some of the other comments that ‘Nothin Better To Do’ should be on the essential singles list but I would also add ‘I Need You’to that list.

By: Ashley

Ashley — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:39:43 +0000

I love LEann she is my role model

By: J.

J. — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:50:08 +0000

She’s still really young–think she’s the highest ranked, youngest singer on the list. Think it’ll be very interesting to see where she ranks in ten, twenty years, especially if she continues to make really great country albums in the vein of This Woman and Family.

By: Cory

Cory — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 21:26:50 +0000

eh I dont know about LeAnn being this high. She is ok but more so a pop flavor embraced by country. She has slowly gone down hill with time never being able to recapture the success of her debut.

By: Jake

Jake — Thu, 29 May 2008 03:14:34 +0000

I think LeAnn deserved this spot if not having a higher position. While she has trailed toward pop sounding music in earlier years(which every country artist was doing for the most part back then) she had great music, wheater it be country or pop or both. A great person and a great artist. I also think Nothin Better To Do is essential as it was another big comeback for LeAnn in 2007 asa country artist.

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 28 May 2008 17:16:07 +0000

leeann

actually, i intended to refer to the fabric of the small tents in the preceding paragraph – looks as if i wasn’t too successful. should have used “fabric” to make it clear.

By: Leeann

Leeann — Wed, 28 May 2008 14:07:20 +0000

Tom, I didn’t know that anyone was judging LeAnn’s accomplishments (or development) based on her clothes?

By: B. Jonathan

B. Jonathan — Wed, 28 May 2008 13:52:09 +0000

Although the media (and the country music fanbase) is quick to compare Carrie Underwood with both Miranda Lambert and Taylor Swift, I think the most interesting comparison would be between Underwood and Rimes. Two attractive, twenty-five-year old blond women with strong, distinctive vocal talents. Their varying levels of success at this stage bring up interesting points about art, commerce and promotion in today’s country music.

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 28 May 2008 11:49:27 +0000

…this is country, ….great voice, ….that’s pop, …country, ….yeah they’re nice but i prefer mommy’s – hear, hear, the expert’s talking, ….seriously country, ….yeah, she does move nicely on them, doesn’t she, ….beautiful song, slightly on the pop side….etc. etc.

these are a few soundbites from a conversation i had with my one year old son at 1.30 am, watching a tv re-run of leann rimes’ concert at the gstaad country festival a few years ago (she wore roughly the same outfit as on the photo). even though, the stage there is in a big tent, the crowd showed quite mixed reactions towards her performance. i guess, there were just too many small tents in that big one.

quality never really goes out of style and is, usually, even more appreciated as time goes by. in my eyes, it would be a real shame not to fully enjoy leann rimes’s development just because of cloths that’s somewhat on the small side.