Deleted
Joined: January 1970
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Apr 24, 2018 23:57:06 GMT -5
Shania's comments on Trump being compared to the Dixie Chicks controversy inspired me to start a poll between the two country legends. Whose music do you prefer?
I've always enjoyed Shania but would never go out of my way to listen to her, she's someone I'll enjoy if someone else has her on or if she's on the radio but my interest ends there. I love the Dixie Chicks and grew up with them way more so I pick them pretty easily.
|
|
|
|
Post by ๐ฒ๐ฝ'๐ผ.๐ฐ๐ฟ on Apr 25, 2018 3:54:57 GMT -5
Shania Twain
|
|
ILLUSION
5x Platinum Member
Dupe
"casually cruel in the name of being honest"
Joined: October 2012
Posts: 5,944
|
Post by ILLUSION on Apr 25, 2018 11:25:07 GMT -5
Shania's comments should be compared to DC. She didn't openly bash Trump, she shouldn't be persecuted for saying she would have voted for him (although I completely disagree with her).
|
|
.indulgecountry
Diamond Member
Best Country Poster 2011, 2017, & 2018
"You left a mark on my face // And brought a dozen red flags in a vase"
|
Post by .indulgecountry on Apr 25, 2018 13:44:01 GMT -5
Love both, but I definitely prefer the Dixie Chicks. Natalie Maines' voice is something else + those incredible harmonies.  |
|
Glove Slap
Administrator
Sweetheart
Downloading เผบเผเผป Possibilities
Joined: January 2007
Posts: 29,511
Staff
|
Post by Glove Slap on Apr 25, 2018 13:49:20 GMT -5
|
|
dbhmr
Diamond Member
>
Joined: January 2005
Posts: 23,463
|
Post by dbhmr on Apr 25, 2018 13:52:49 GMT -5
This is weird because I definitely listen to and prefer more of Shania's music, but generally think that the Dixie Chicks are better by nearly every subjective metric.
|
|
Deleted
Joined: January 1970
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2018 15:28:22 GMT -5
Shania's comments should be compared to DC. She didn't openly bash Trump, she shouldn't be persecuted for saying she would have voted for him (although I completely disagree with her). This poll isn't about their political beliefs, it's about their music. |
|
kcdawg13
7x Platinum Member
You Are Now Listening to 103.5 Dawn FM
|
Post by kcdawg13 on Apr 25, 2018 15:32:15 GMT -5
Shania
|
|
|
|
Post by Rose "Payola" Nylund on Apr 25, 2018 16:17:06 GMT -5
As fun as Shania's music is, I'm now realizing how most people don't seem to 'get' the Dixie Chicks. Ouch
|
|
Deleted
Joined: January 1970
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2018 17:27:43 GMT -5
This is weird because I definitely listen to and prefer more of Shania's music, but generally think that the Dixie Chicks are better by nearly every subjective metric. Right? Shania is like the Paula Abdul of country. I don't think she added anything significant or noteworthy to the industry besides a handful of crossover "classics", and she herself is as uninteresting as they come. She's not even that talented, she just got lucky with some really good material. |
|
Deleted
Joined: January 1970
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2018 19:09:02 GMT -5
Dixie Chicks, though I love both
But DC, I love them so much more
Not Ready To Make Nice especially
|
|
bat1990
Diamond Member
Joined: July 2004
Posts: 13,507 
Pronouns: he/him
|
Post by bat1990 on Apr 25, 2018 19:25:59 GMT -5
This is impossible for me.....
They are my two favorite country acts and both have transcended genre and been so important.
|
|
Glove Slap
Administrator
Sweetheart
Downloading เผบเผเผป Possibilities
Joined: January 2007
Posts: 29,511
Staff
|
Post by Glove Slap on Apr 25, 2018 19:26:14 GMT -5
This is weird because I definitely listen to and prefer more of Shania's music, but generally think that the Dixie Chicks are better by nearly every subjective metric. Right? I don't think she added anything significant or noteworthy to the industry besides a handful of crossover "classics", and she herself is as uninteresting as they come. Aren't the Dixie Chicks the same though (minus the crossover classics)? And if you remove the incident, there's nothing that interesting about them either besides really good material. I think the most interesting part about their career outside of that, is that when the new traditionalist wave came in after 9/11 and started cutting into the success of many female acts, they were able to triumph with Home being in the territory that was unofficially supposed to be where only male acts excelled, and it could have been up to par success wise with the previous two if things hadn't been cut short. But that was swallowed up by the incident. This is not to criticize their actual music, which for the most part was really good, but it's weird to call out Shania on being uninteresting as an individual in comparison to them (or to say that the composition of her music was less impressive when you deconstruct them, because the stuff she did with Lange is extremely powerfully constructed and layered, and near-singular in the field she was in when they were released), when the only really interesting thing about them outside the music was the incident that exploded outside of them and pretty much crushed them in the end, at least as far as longevity was concerned. There hasn't been an act in the same vein as them for the most part, so it's debatable whether they had any lasting influence or impact outside of, again, really good, really successful material. Shania's influence can at least be seen in Carrie Underwood and Taylor Swift's hyper everyday superwoman poses. |
|
|
|
Post by The Brazilian Guy ๐ง๐ท on Apr 25, 2018 21:08:34 GMT -5
Right? I don't think she added anything significant or noteworthy to the industry besides a handful of crossover "classics", and she herself is as uninteresting as they come. And if you remove the incident, there's nothing that interesting about them either besides really good material.  The chicks big personalities were a HUGE part of their music and impact on country music. The fact that there hasn't been an act in the same vein as them doesn't have anything to do with a lack of "lasting influence" or "impact", but mostly because of how unique their dynamic and perspective was a group. As evidenced by this recent roundtable organized by Billboard ( Women of Country Music: Kacey Musgraves, Mickey Guyton, & More | Billboard Roundtable), what the chicks represented and their influence are still very much present in the new generation of Nashville women. As for Shania, I can definitely see why some people could see her as an uninteresting artist. She always had a much more "vanilla" artistic personality. With her, it was all about the pop-country winning formula developed by/alongside Mutt. Her overall message was always WAY more "digestible", and by consequence, way less risky compared to what the Chicks represented... no wonder people like Carrie and Taylor followed that recipe. |
|
jenglisbe
Diamond Member
Joined: January 2005
Posts: 35,082
|
Post by jenglisbe on Apr 27, 2018 9:28:23 GMT -5
Itโs certainly more about style preference. Shaniaโs music was more โfunโ and the Chicksโ more โseriousโ (after their first album or two anyway). The Chicks showed more variety and heft with their albums.
|
|
leonagwen
Diamond Member
#LiteralLegender
Joined: November 2011
Posts: 15,284
|
Post by leonagwen on May 3, 2018 12:27:43 GMT -5
Shania
|
|
irice22
9x Platinum Member
listening to Kesha. Always.
Joined: October 2003
Posts: 9,213
|
Post by irice22 on May 3, 2018 16:52:22 GMT -5
The Dixie Chicks all the way. And that's saying a lot because I love Shania.
|
|
|
|
Post by Space Cowboy on May 7, 2018 11:47:18 GMT -5
Shania, easily. I've never cared for the Dixie Chicks' production. I feel like there is this weird "muffled" sound on their vocals, it always sounded odd to me...
|
|
