Comments on: Pop Goes the Country

By: Code

Code — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 15:31:29 +0000

Is this even a question? SHANIA TWAIN!! The queen of country-pop, and the only country star one to actually DOMINATE international charts, despite with pop music.

Reba failed in 1995, with her starting over album, and she even told larry king that she wanted to make a move to crossover, but failed ultimately. She laughed about it though, saying her voice was wayy to country, and that crossing over should just be left to the pros like shania and faith.

Faith hill had some crossover success but not as much as shania. Dolly had some too in the 80s. And i dont see miranda lambert crossing over, thats the main reason she has that massive fan base, BECAUSE SHE’S ACTUALLY COUNTRY.

By: KatieR

KatieR — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 03:47:03 +0000

Country TO Pop? I’d say top 3:

1.) Shania Twain (Up, & most of her albums)
2.) Faith Hill (Cry, I really loved it)
3.) Dixie Chicks (TTLW, still country, but more pop-soft rock-country than any of the others)

By: Razor X

Razor X — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 16:14:50 +0000

9 out of 10 *acts* in Nashville are failed pop/rock acts. When all else fails, let’s go country! Gotta love when the celeb du jour out of nowhere releases a *country* album and swears they were ALWAYS country! That THIS is the music that they grew up on and always had inside them. Sheeesh… if I had a nickel for everytime I heard that lame bio.

The flip side of that nickel is the country artist who, when asked to name his or her influences, lists several pop, R&B and rock acts, with — if we’re lucky — one token country act, in order to prove that he or she isn’t “too country.”

By: Razor X

Razor X — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 16:12:40 +0000

Let’s just see if the CMA, ACM, (the new) ACA, and other Country Awards institutions agree with you that “Artists aren’t remixing country records for the pop market; they’re adding a little fiddle, steel and sometimes banjo to pop records to make them sound more country.”
Because, if they see what you see, then the recipients of the awards should not include such artists. The 2010 CMA nominations don’t make me particularly hopeful in this respect.

Those organizations hand out awards to whoever is currently making the most money for the industry. They stopped recognizing artistic merit a long time ago. Don’t look to them for validation of what is good or bad country music.

By: Soul Miners Daughter

Soul Miners Daughter — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 11:54:40 +0000

By: Observer

Observer — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 07:26:19 +0000

Fine, never mind the ACA.

By: Zack

Zack — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 05:26:52 +0000

It’s not fair to include the ACA in this since they are entirely fan-voted.

By: Observer

Observer — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 04:54:35 +0000

By: Razor X

Razor X — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 04:45:21 +0000

No one is trying to justify it. And the problem with acts like Taylor Swift and Lady Antebellum isn’t that they’re remixing their records for the pop market — who cares? The problem is that they’re on country radio in the first place.

By: Observer

Observer — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 04:29:28 +0000

It is not as you say “the opposite of what you described”, that is precisely why I referred to “Frauds and charlatans like Taylor Swift and Lady Antebellum”.
Furthermore, the fact that it is nothing new, in no way justifies what is being done today.