Word: shania
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...without being excessively cornpone or mindlessly pop. In the process, he has done what his predecessor Garth Brooks could not do: reach an audience outside his genre while remaining well liked within it. "Nashville hates anyone who has ambitions beyond Nashville," says a country record executive. "Shania, Garth Brooks get no respect in this town. But Tim has done a good job of disguising his motives--or of at least paying the proper respect to the industry...
...redneck woman/I ain't no high class broad/I'm just a product of my raisin'/I say 'hey y'all' and 'Yee Haw'"--that it succeeds as both a genuine ode to hillbillies and a genuine joke about hillbillies. Wilson, who has obviously been studying her Shania Twain, sells the song hard, and with an endorsement from Kid Rock, who appears in the video, Redneck should rampage out of the South and dominate seventh-inning stretches as far north as Detroit...
...York are turning into meditation retreats so quickly that the Borscht Belt is being renamed the Buddhist Belt. And, as with any great American trend that finds its way onto the cover of TIME, many of these meditators are famous. To name just a few: Goldie Hawn, Shania Twain, Heather Graham, Richard Gere and Al Gore, if he still counts as famous...
...deal this is, imagine Eminem, Shania Twain, Britney Spears, Bruce Springsteen, U2 and 40 more of pop's hottest acts gathering in an Alpine village to chew the fat, hang out and occasionally perform together - for no fees and no charitable cause - under a tent with a seating capacity of just 1,750. It could only happen in a pop-music fan's wildest dreams. But this week lovers of classical music will see their equivalent fantasy come true. Until Aug. 3, the world's best classical musicians and singers will gather in the Swiss mountain village of Verbier...
...only one on this planet who thinks that Shania's music is bland and generic? I haven't been inclined to buy her CDs, and it pleases me to know that I have not helped fill her husband Lange's already fat wallet. A colleague of his says he wants to have the top-selling album of all time. That speaks volumes about his love of music: it's just business as usual. I feel sorry that Shania isn't having fun, and I suspect this is because she's not doing the kind of music she would love...