Comments on: Take Your Pick! Are you a hillbilly, a lap dancer or bluegrass picker?

By: It Takes Balls to be a Woman: Feminism in Country Music « Country kid’s Weblog

Tue, 27 May 2008 04:59:42 +0000

[...] Filed under: Uncategorized — rwitt @ 4:57 am In one of my earlier blog posts entitled ‘Take Your Pick! Are you a hillbilly, a lap dancer or bluegrass picker?‘ I reviewed an article by George Lewis. It is proposed in the article that one of the themes [...]

By: rwitt

rwitt — Sun, 25 May 2008 06:41:11 +0000

Thanks for the positive feedback Sophie! I think the example of the Simpson’s episode is a very smart way to portray the mainstream stereotype of female country singers.
Can you recall seeing any female country singers in the charts since Shania Twain, bowed out in the late 1990s with her terrible choice of attire and bad choice of dance moves, I can’t and maybe theres a reason why!
I must agree with Steve Earle, its artists like her that make the ‘real country singers’ ashamed to be country, in fact I think its artists like Shania Twain that may even deter people away from the genre. Personally her exposure and her musical style has certainly hindered rather than drawn me towards the genre.

By: sophiea

sophiea — Thu, 15 May 2008 14:54:05 +0000

it is interesting to see how much type of country is out there… Im starting to think we SHOULD pick one and look into the gaps in that coverage… with the mention of Lapdance country made me laugh, i thought back to the Simpsons episode where homer becomes a country singers manager, turns out the country singer want sot sleep with homer because surprise surprise shes lonley and wants a real man, but it does seem true, the females that make it into mainstream do seem to fund the stereotyping of country music,.
twas a good blog on the different styles of country! I enjoyed it