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» Danny Brown - Lack of support from within for "Girl Power"
RE Girl Power: I watched an interesting half hour show called "Shania - R.E.S.P.E.C.T" last night on CMT. It looked at how Shania Twain was the biggest-selling female country music artist of the 'nineties, bringing in over $100 million revenue to the CMA, yet she never really got the respect from her peers that she deserved.A lot of this was blamed on various reasons - she wasn't from Nashville, or lived there; she didn't tour in her early days; she was using her looks to sell records; and that she was just a studio singer who got her break because of her husband, uber-producer Mutt Lange. All this came from the upper echelons of the Nashville "old guard" and its fans.
Yet, as the program showed, even when Shania proved the naysayers wrong by having the most successful tour in the late 'nineties of ANY country artist, and proved she could perform, she still never really got the respect, as she was just "too pretty" to be taken seriously.
Until the stereotypical image of women in country music is changed, and the likes of Shania Twain and the other new breed of stars are allowed to do things their way, I'm afraid the trend for "girl power" in the CMA will be a far-off pipe dream.
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