Comments on: 100 Greatest Women, #16: Shania Twain

By: Vance

Vance — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 20:52:09 +0000

Ughhh … reading through jake and Jake’s comments were painful. Both of them should be banned.

By: PJ

PJ — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 19:50:29 +0000

Trisha Yearwood and Wynnona ahead of Shania and Faith? This definitely isnt a beauty contest! Just sayin’!

By: Code

Code — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 09:52:55 +0000

Are you serious!?!?! Yes shania carried sales, but barbara……NO, based on her RIAA certifications barbara has only sold 1 million albums,whereas reba has sold more than 50 times that much. It was reba who really carried the sales for country women in the late 80s and early 90s. Im sorry but i just dont think that barbara should be ahead of reba.

By: Travis

Travis — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 23:33:45 +0000

Shania, like Barbara Mandrell before is hated by many for being to POP, or being to glamorous, this or that…..If you don’t like these women, you’re old, your grumpy and you most likely just want women to cry while they sing or just stand behind the mike and not move til she’s TOLD to….

Having said this,, Shania’s only one up to Barbara is she is a songwriter, and like Dolly before her, it will carry her well after her face and voice fades from the radio…

Shania deserves EVERY award, EVERY number 1, and EVERY compliment she gets…. Like I’ve said before, it’s women like her and Barbara that carry sales so other lower level singers can survive… FACE it, country would be DEAD long ago had it not been for these women.. do the math…

By: Patrick

Patrick — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 20:29:44 +0000

Personally, I wouldn’t rank her as high as others may have wanted her to be ranked. Sure, I love Shania but she became popular because she re-mixed her songs into pop, just like Taylor Swift is doing.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 22:20:31 +0000

Great artist, but her later albums crossed too much over into pop. I mean Dolly has had pop chart success, but not this much :\ When it comes to “Man, I Feel Like a Woman,” there is very little country music involved. However, she is a fantastic song-writer

By: Devin

Devin — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 20:04:19 +0000

Arguments in favor of Shania Twain, here and everywhere else, invariably seem to rest on matters of quantity. As Jake has taught us in an earlier post, Ms. Twain has sold more CDs than any other female country singer and had a tour that grossed over $100 million. While I defend Jake’s right to express his opinion, I suggest to him (and others who feel Shania deserves a high ranking on a list like this) that he’d be more persuasive if he spoke in terms of quality. For instance, no one can dispute that Connie Smith did not have a high number of #1 hits, but in terms of legacy and influence, she is a giant and well deserves her high place on the list. If one would follow Jake’s logic, since Smith did not sell out (double meaning here) arenas and have slews of platinum albums, one would suppose that her legacy is negligible. But any longtime fan of country music, and not someone who “wouldn’t even like country music if it weren’t for Shania,” would know better. Years from now, no one will remember who sold the most albums in 2003 or who had the most #1 hits in 1999. If people remember Shania, it will be for her songs and not for the redundant facts and figures that her supporters delight in recalling.

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 20:40:27 +0000

Rein? I knew she liked horses but really….

So much for your credibility re: radio payola LOL

By: Joe

Joe — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 15:43:13 +0000

Man, the pure ignorance… I’m actually getting quite sick of the discrediting nature towards Shania here by many people. If she was in lulu roman’s body? Would Patty, Alison, Barbara or any of the rest have the success if they looked like that? What a ridiculous and rude comparison. It’s like Vince Gill, said if Shania weighed 200 pounds people would style love her and her songs. Cookie cutter? That is simply the way Nashville usually works it, the reason why Shania gets flak for being different and going against the grain. She’s original and found her own niche, people in the industry who complain are envious and think why didn’t I think of that first… With all the discrediting remarks I am happy and admire greatly that Shania has not returned the negativity and enjoys watching others succeed. Shania has more class in a single hair on her eyebrow than the whole rest who trash and put her down. I wish her the best in her future, may she still rein.

By: jake

jake — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:10:58 +0000

stephen, you are a Shania fan ? really? NOt juding by your comments.You haven’t said one nice thing about Shania.
Why is my comments nonsensical?
I have stated fact and everything I posted true.

I am still laughing at your comment which said what has she done since 1999? You still haven’t answered that one. Since 1999 and before 1999 Shania has sold more cd’s than any country female on earth. In 2003-2004 she had a massive worldwide tour that grossed 120 million worldwide and had the biggest country album of the year in 2003 with UP and headlined the superbowl halftime show in 2003 and had 2 of her own prime time NBC specials in 2003.
What Shania did in 2003 alone is more than what most country females do in a decade.
Stephen, you are not a Shania fan and neve were. You never said one nice thing about her. You are just posting discredit her.

Shania can’t help it if she is bigger than Nashville and more known and more wealthy.
Shania should of been #1 on this list.
I am also quite upset that Kevin is deleted some of my posts that were totally within the rules and innocent.
Are we not allowed to voice our opinion?
It doesn’t matter how many times I say the truth, there are always bashers like Stephen and others putting Shania down.
It is qutie sad that this site has become a place to bash Shania.

I think Stephen and others need to deal with the facts that Shania is the biggest selling country female of alltim known worldwide and she brought an impact on country music never see before. She took it to another level and many people wouldn’t even like country music if it weren’t for Shania.
Shania is in a league of her own and she proved that nobody can match her.