Lee Ann Womack: “Country Radio Right Now Is NOT Real Country”
Lee Ann Womack just released her latest record The Lonely, The Lonesome, & the Gone, and despite once being signed to a major label and enjoying her fair share of radio play and industry attention, she’s now moved on from that world, and is willing to speak her mind about what has happened to country music.
“I’m a country singer,” Womack said proudly when discussing her new music with Chris Shifflett recently on his Walking The Floor podcast. “There’s no doubt about that, and that’s what I always aspired to be. It’s odd for me, because real country has sort of been pushed out. . .What I call myself is a real country singer, and [most of] what you hear on country radio right now is NOT real country.“
Though Womack is often associated with her biggest hit and crossover success “I Hope You Dance,” she explains that her career started in traditional country, and that’s where she feels most at home.
“I was the girl who was writing and singing ‘Am I the Only Thing That You’ve Done Wrong’ and ‘Never Again, Again’ – these really hardcore country songs,” she told Chris Shifflett. “Then all of a sudden, I had this positive message, and I had my kids in the video, and I think that people just thought that I was something that maybe I wasn’t. I told people at the time, ‘I think people think I’m Billy Graham, and I’m really more like George Jones’. . . I really didn’t play the role, but I think that’s what people wanted. It was difficult for me to navigate those waters.”
After parting with MCA Nashville some years ago, Womack signed with Sugar Hill, and more recently with ATO Records. Now she is able to do whatever she wants, which on The Lonely, The Lonesome, & The Gone, is a mixture of traditional country tracks, along with more bluesy, Americana-sounding songs with producer and husband Frank Liddell. But one thing you won’t hear Womack do is attempt to emulate the new, hip sound.
When speaking to Chuck Dauphin of Billboard recently, Womack assured her fans, “I’m a very proud Texan. I love places where people appreciate real music. What I mean by that is with real instruments –wood, and things that breathe — not computer-generated sounds. I came from a place where that’s celebrated. It was when I was growing up, and it still is now . . . I guess I live in those bygone days. I love music that takes you somewhere, and when people listen to this music, I want them to be taken to a different place, so I hope that it does that.”
October 31, 2017 @ 8:10 am
As if I needed another reason to love Lee Ann. She’s completely right.
Although I am 21, I remember being much younger and listening to country radio. It was on all of the time at my house growing up. I remember hearing songs that spoke of real life instead of the screwing-on-a-tailgate or up-in-the-club or acting years younger than your age kinda bullshit that populates 80% of country radio today. Sure, you have your Pardis and Stapletons, who are carrying on the traditions of the 90s and early 2000s (in which I grew up), but you also have your Sam Hunt and Walker Hayes and Kane Brown, who shouldn’t be on country radio in the first place. Sam belongs on top 40 pop radio, and truthfully, Kane and Walker shouldn’t even be making music.
October 31, 2017 @ 8:39 am
I think I just fell in love with you. Keep on preaching the gospel!
November 1, 2017 @ 6:40 am
I am 100% with you. My friend came up to me and said, “I like a country song, ‘What Ifs’ by Kane Brown and Lauren Alaina.” I just rolled my eyes. I want to tell all my fellow college friends that they’re truly missing out and 95% of what’s on mainstream isn’t quality music, let alone country. At least we know that if we “hunt” for it, solid country music is out there; but, unfortunately, you can’t flip to a country station and be able to identify what genre of music it is anymore like you could even a decade ago.
November 1, 2017 @ 7:42 am
Absolutely! Also, remember when you had to at least be able to sing on key to get a record label? Kane Brown has literally nothing. Maybe I spent way too much time in choir from 5th-12th grade, but I can recognize a flat voice when I hear one. And Kane Brown, lemme tell ya, is a flat singer. And also, remember when quality songwriting meant something in country music?
November 2, 2017 @ 8:57 am
Funny story, to me at least. I was playing an acoustic show in Louisiana last week, when a patron asked me if I knew any Kane Brown songs. I apologized and said I really don’t listen to that newer kind of music, as I mostly play 80s and 90s country and rock.
She explained that her favorite Kane Brown songs were from when he was “coming up” (on YouTube) and that he started by covering old country artists like George Strait. Could I play one of those Kane Brown songs? “So you want me to cover Kane Brown covering George Strait?” I did, and she was thrilled. Kane Brown’s best songs are when they aren’t Kane Brown songs 🙂
October 31, 2017 @ 8:18 am
I love Lee Ann and TLTL&G is her best album in over a decade (I didn’t get much traction out of The Way I’m Livin’ because I already loved other versions of those songs), but she needs to tone down this rhetoric. It wasn’t only I Hope You Dance; Something Worth Leaving Behind was a straight up pop album (which bombed commercially). She basked and benefited from her commercial success until it left her. YouTube is littered with failed singles from abandoned albums between 09-13. She tried vehemently to still be relevant in mainstream country until she found a home at Sugar Hill.
I wish she just let her music do her talking because she comes off bitter and hypocritical.
October 31, 2017 @ 8:27 am
For those young readers: Something Worth Leaving Behind (2002) was the follow-up to I Hope You Dance. Womack and her label went to the well a second time to cash in on the I Hope You Dance sentiment and cross-over success. The album had few wood instruments and sounded nothing like George Jones. However, it’s lone bright spot was a cover of Bruce Robison’s Blame it on Me.
October 31, 2017 @ 9:19 am
Something Worth Leaving Behind is without a doubt her weakest effort. Her two worst songs were on that album: I Need You and Surrender. Surrender is the only song of hers that I would say is terrible. However, the album did have quite a few bright spots as well as let-downs: Orphan Train is a damn near masterpiece, He’ll Be Back, Blame It on Me, and Closing This Memory Down are also good. Forever Everyday is decent as well.
November 4, 2017 @ 1:06 pm
I recall that “Something Worth Leaving Behind” was released around the same time as Faith Hill’s “Cry”, though the singing on this album was better than on “Cry”. Around the 2002 time frame Faith Hill, LeAnn Rimes, and LeAnn Womack all tried to ride the pop wave but they were late to the party and their albums underperformed expectations. It was especially unfortunate for Lee Ann Womack since there was a traditional comeback in mainstream country at that time that would have been right up her alley if she had simply continued doing what she had been doing before.
I remember that the title track of “Something Worth Leaving Behind” was quite bad. It was contrived, pretentious, and sounded like she was trying too hard. I would speculate that perhaps she might have felt pressure to record another inspirational song like “I Hope You Dance” that millions of Christian mothers could sing to their children, or she may have felt pressure from the label to branch out beyond the “redneck” music and appeal to the mass market of suburban soccer moms. If I had to find one redeeming thing to say about that song, at least she wasn’t screaming like Faith Hill was on “Cry”.
October 31, 2017 @ 9:01 am
I like a good bit of her work a great deal, and I think you just hit on why I don’t like more.
Saw her open for AJ in Evansville and she put on a great show.
Whatever she was before, we need more of what she is now.
October 31, 2017 @ 3:13 pm
YouTube is littered with failed singles from abandoned albums between 09-13
If Wikipedia is to be believed, only one non-album single (“There Is A God”) was released between 2009 and 2014. And save for that song, pretty much everything after Something Worth Leaving Behind has been classic Lee Ann Womack as far as I can tell, even if it wasn’t all as good as There’s More Where That Came From. And the circumstances of the making of Something Worth Leaving Behind and its subsequent failure are all well-documented, as well as LAW’s recognition of it as a misstep. I mean, you can bash her for that album and IHYD (the song) all you like, but to call her hypocritical is kind of stretching it.
October 31, 2017 @ 3:36 pm
Yes. Pretty much every major mainstream country singer has had to record or release something that the label insisted on. And if you are a mid level star like Womack pretty much always was it can be very hard to resist.
This criticism of her kind of smacks of more ‘perfect is the enemy of the good’ type thinking. Womack on the whole is one of the good ones and to criticize her over choices made many years ago is kind of petty.
October 31, 2017 @ 6:31 pm
Precisely. See also: Mark Chesnutt and “I Don’t Want To Miss A Thing.” I was rather relieved to find out the only reason he did that was that the record label forced him to.
And even playing the game, Lee Ann sounds a lot better than other folks supposedly doing their own thing. Much as I didn’t like IHYD (the song), for example, I would still take that than Kelsea Ballerini singing…whatever the hell she sings.
October 31, 2017 @ 7:17 pm
Chesnutt is a great example. I commented on here a while back that many performers have followed up huge hits with very similar sounding songs and I strongly suspect that is record label driven. I mentioned George Jones following ‘White Lightning’ with ‘Who Shot Sam’ and the Oak Ridge Boys following ‘Elvira’ with ‘Bobbie Sue’. I strongly suspect that those were labels pushing them to try to ride a big sound and I suspect the same thing happened with Womack after ‘Dance’ which was a huge hit not only at country but on Adult Contemporary radio also.
October 31, 2017 @ 6:59 pm
Lee Ann Womack is as country as it gets. It’s always funny when people try to look down on one or two songs or a single albums in an entire career. You could say the same about Alan Jackson, George Strait, And basically any country singer ever
November 3, 2017 @ 12:12 pm
Lee Ann is definitely taking a more cosmopolitan, bluesy turn with her new CD, which is being promoted in media like NPR–and she’s appearing in hipster urban venues like Brooklyn, N.Y. I think it’s great, but it’s not a path that Alan Jackson or George Strait ever took. Of course, Lee Ann has never been the country superstar that Jackson and Strait are, so she needs to try new approaches to keep her career going. Jackson and Strait each have enough of an audience base that they can afford to keep doing the same thing they’ve always been doing.
October 31, 2017 @ 7:51 pm
I said I love Womack. She shouldn’t cast any stones. That’s all.
It’s not just this interview. I read an interview in People (where she states she doesn’t smoke – Midland much??) where she’s claiming to be countrier than Jones, but she’s not. Embrace what you are and what you where and don’t cast no stones.
November 1, 2017 @ 8:09 am
We need more people like LAW casting stones at country radio, not less. She’s never claimed to be countrier than Jones, but shes listed him as her main influence. I think her last 4 albums (along with her first two) show exactly what she is… a damn great traditional country singer, who has proven to make great country music and vocally support traditional country music… probably the best traditional female country singer walking this planet.
November 1, 2017 @ 8:13 am
And when it comes to artist who have had even some recent mainstream success but are mostly heavy traditionalist, who do we have that can voice an opinion, are willing to voice it, and maybe get someone to listen?
Alan Jackson
George Strait
Lee Ann Womack
Any others?
November 1, 2017 @ 8:23 am
That’s the problem I have with her comments. It’s either being hypocritical or admitting that you’re willing to sell out to make a buck.
November 1, 2017 @ 9:00 am
Being willing to sell out, and being contractually obligated to release certain songs and work with certain producers the label mandates—which there is exhaustive evidence happens on Music Row daily—are two separate things.
October 31, 2017 @ 7:40 pm
Remember “Finding My Way Back Home”? That was actually shipped to radio and got some play before they abandoned they project. I look it up on iTunes and the release date was August 2006. I would have guessed 09.
November 1, 2017 @ 5:40 am
I love that song. I wonder what that project would have been like.
October 31, 2017 @ 7:42 pm
Spend some time on iTunes or amazon and you’ll find a lot of unclaimed singles.
October 31, 2017 @ 8:24 am
” But one thing you won’t hear Womack do is attempt to emulate the new, hip sound.”
As I’ve indicated many times here on SCM …I love Lee Ann . But I find the quote above interesting. To my ear , her last two records have somewhat attempted to emulate a new, hip sound , if not mainstream radio’s ” new hip sound “. Its the retro-sounding rootsy , hands-off sound I’m hearing on a lot of stuff from Stapleton to Isbell to Miranda Lambet ….that Cobb-ish non-production- production a lot of the alt artists are chasing . BTW …I think Buddy Miller and Co. are the folks who seem to have made that approach popular again starting about 10 years back .
Hmmmm?
October 31, 2017 @ 8:45 am
I read a lot of trade magazines and charts online. There is one that has a piece from an artist that ask them who was their influence growing up. The artists that are getting the radio airplay today never mention any Country Music artist from the past. No 90’s, 80’s or 70’s. It all 90’s Pop Artists. I guess that if that is what you listened to, that’s ok. How does those artists from that genre turn you into a Country Singer? It doesn’t! It makes you a reject from that genre because you know you couldn’t make it there so you migrated over to the one that you had a chance in and spread it like a cancer. I know growth is one thing, but there is no growth with changing a genre and leaving it for dead. Country Radio is dead to me. I still have my favorites and they still put out good albums. I just don’t look for them on the radio. As for crossover Country hits….wonderful!!! As long as you don’t have to tweek the original song to fit that format. Stick with the original that brought you to the dance and if it was meant to be the dance will last all night.
October 31, 2017 @ 9:11 am
Your comment struck a nerve, as I just heard Every Little Thing (Carly Pearce song) on a country radio station at lunch. And I thought, ‘Well hell, there’s something you don’t hear on ‘country’ radio too much–a decent pop song.’
But yeah–half ass pop songs end up on country airwaves all the time.
As for the Machine that is Music Row–fuck’em and feed’em fish heads.
October 31, 2017 @ 5:12 pm
I never understood why alot of people that comment on this site as well as many other older country fans ive seen comment on youtube say that “Every Little Thing” is country and is a big win for us real country music fans. First of all, its an absolutely terrible song, and second, it is not country at all. In fact, there is honestly no women country artists that have a REAL country song on country radio, its all poppy crap.
October 31, 2017 @ 11:01 am
I love this woman. The last time I saw her interviewed, she was definitely outspoken about Nashville, new country, and her new record and how free she felt making it. This is awesome.
November 1, 2017 @ 8:14 am
most of the ‘old guard’ folks are borderline if not overtly outspoken about the state of country music and , of course , its far easier for someone NOT currently on a major label to speak out . often , however, the issue is not one of the actual material being force fed to us as country but the relationships/friendships the old guard have made with the younger artists/producers/writers and musicians creating that sound or chasing it to make a living.
its a fine line and , I thin k , the best thing a REAL artist can do is to ‘ show me don’t tell me ” ……write , find and record REAL country and send it out to the world as something you believe in . show a younger uninitiated demographic what real country is …..what a real country songwriter is capable of writing. an older artist may tour with an up-and -comer as a label edict or as a choice . either way , a bond is made ….a friendship . ” love the artist …..hate the music ” is a tough circumstance to navigate diplomatically . you have to suspect that when Swift hit the scene and labels forced her up;on the masses there had to be some authentic friendships made with her by the veteran artists she opened for . at the same time you can bet many of those artists did not like her take on ‘country ‘ music .
its a business first for Nashville , if not for many authentic artists , and as with any business maintaining contacts and good relationship is essential to long term success .
October 31, 2017 @ 11:46 am
Well, Trigger it seems like your work beginning to bear fruit. More and more artist beginning to talk about “real” country and how they wants it to be played on the radio.
Another ten years and we might se Sam Hunt with trembling voice tell how much he has longed to play some real country … 🙂
October 31, 2017 @ 12:06 pm
I love Leeann, her voice IMO is perfection but she’s just bandwagoning now. Pop country got her to the point where she financially able to do her own thing and now she wants to act above it all? Hypocrisy is not a good look.
Shitting on pop country is the new changing lyrics from beer to whiskey and tailgating to highways. Same dumb songs but somehow oh so hipster cooler.
October 31, 2017 @ 12:48 pm
I disagree that she’s being hypocritical. She had one big crossover hit but she’s been promoting real country music from the very beginning of her career. Something Worth Leaving Behind was a misstep — probably something she did because her label wanted more crossover hits from her, but she went on to release masterpieces like There’s More Where That Came From. She’s walked the walk. No hypocrisy here.
October 31, 2017 @ 1:04 pm
I read somewhere where she has spoken of Something Worth Leaving Behind as something that other people wanted her to make, not particularly what she wanted. I don’t quite remember where I’d found it, otherwise I would’ve linked the article.
October 31, 2017 @ 1:14 pm
That’s my point, she found success in pop country and that set her up to do what’s she wants to do. The hypocrisy is from taking pop country fans money, gladly, while shitting on the genre the next day.
October 31, 2017 @ 3:18 pm
There is a lot wrong with country music today. Lee Ann Womack is not part of the problem.
October 31, 2017 @ 6:50 pm
Nobody said she was but it rings hollow to jump on the anti pop country bandwagon when that’s how you made your money.
November 1, 2017 @ 3:49 pm
but it rings hollow to jump on the anti pop country bandwagon when that’s how you made your money
I might agree with that, but for the fact that it’s predicated on the assumption that pop country has always sucked, and quite frankly that’s a load of shit. I mean, I know there are people who think it has, and they’re entitled to that opinion, but I’ll never understand it. I have heard people, straight-faces and stone sober, compare FGL to the Dixie Chicks, and I was like, “really?” I have said it bedtime and will say it again: Pop country isn’t bad by default; it just used to be a whole lot better, even good.
November 4, 2017 @ 1:25 pm
If “I Hope You Dance” was released today, nobody would be complaining that it is too pop for mainstream country. Yes it had crossover success, but as far as I can recall it was the best country song to be widely played on pop/AC stations in the last 20 years (and I’m saying that as someone who is not a soccer mom).
I think the folks at Lee Ann’s label must not have been very sharp if they told her to record “Something Worth Leaving Behind”. That album flopped, because it did not successfully replicate the winning formula on “I Hope You Dance”, which was to release ONE crossover single that country fans also liked on an album with lots of traditional country songs, not to try to record an album of primarily pop crossover songs. It was not necessary to record many pop songs, because even big mainstream Nashville stars rarely have more than one or two crossover hits from the same album (with Shania’s “Come On Over” being the one exception I can think of).
October 31, 2017 @ 2:42 pm
Bingo. This is exactly what I would have said.
October 31, 2017 @ 3:01 pm
I don’t think Lee Ann is being a hypocrite. Someone needs to say something before we are overrun with Kane Browns and Walker Hayeses.
There’s More Where That Came From is a pure country masterpiece. If you like that album, you will love Ashley Monroe’s 2013 album Like a Rose. It is an excellent album from a criminally underrated and insanely talented mainstream artist, that, in some ways to me, feels like a continuation to Womack’s There’s More Where That Came From. The similarities between Monroe and Womack are scary.
It’s sucks that Ashley Monroe will probably never achieve the commercial success that she deserves. In my opinion, she is one of the best country singer/songwriters of this generation.
October 31, 2017 @ 6:35 pm
There’s More Where That Came From
If someone asked me what I thought was the best mainstream country album of not only the 2000s, but of the new century, it would be a toss up between this album and the Dixie Chicks’ Home. I once made the observation that TMWTCF was probably the best country album (at least from the mainstream) to come out in the last 30 years, and I still stand by that.
October 31, 2017 @ 7:12 pm
Totally agree. Every now and then I still dial up ‘I May Hate Myself In The Morning’ on YouTube as it is one of my favorite country songs ever. Odie Blackman wrote it and Lee Ann was the perfect artist to sing it.
October 31, 2017 @ 7:50 pm
Home is fantastic too!!! I wish they would have gotten the opportunity to record more music in that vein,
November 1, 2017 @ 8:57 am
Great albums. I’m with Scotty J. Hate Myself In The Morning is one of the best songs ever recorded
October 31, 2017 @ 6:56 pm
I love Ashley Monroe but Ashley didn’t play up the pop country angle and then go and talk negatively about it.
Leeann who I love and listen to at least one song a day from, could’ve gone with a different approach. She reaped the benefits from pop country and crossover radio. To act like pop country is the devil now doesn’t sit well with me.
November 1, 2017 @ 8:29 am
as much as i appreciate ashley monroes intent and her effort to record trad ( more or less ) country music i just don’t think that vocally she competes with marren morris , kelsea ballereini, carrie , miranda or ,as much as i hate to say it , karen fairchild , jana kramar and others when it comes to uniquness and recognize-abilty vocally . she’s a churchmouse in that grouping and unfortunately even some of those females are having a tough time getting airplay with , in my opinion , much better material and radio-friendly productions .
there are a lot of monroe-like artists who simply slip through the cracks because the material is just not strong enough . if you choose NOT to be trendy you’d better have KILLER material ….KILLER and a voice to back it up .
take blues music for instance . lyrically very simple ….some would say even trite. but Mavis Staples can sing me the alphabet and I’ll be on my knees worshipping that voice .
if you don’t have a character vocal sound you had better have amazing material that resonates with a large demographic commercial or otherwise or you too will just fall between the cracks and spend a career there if you aren’t washed away completely . i think there are asn awful lot of artists who have yet to grasp this . most artsts , new or old , need to , i believe , spend far more effort on finding or writing material than chasing trends or hip producers ….especially if they aren’t God’s gift to the genre vocally .
October 31, 2017 @ 7:13 pm
She released two heavy leaning traditional albums. I hope you dance album wasn’t completely pop country like the single. One leaning pop country album. Then 4 straight excellent hardcore country albums….. god forbid her state an opinion on country music. When it comes to females in country music today, she’s as country as it gets.
October 31, 2017 @ 1:18 pm
Thank God for WSM-AM 650 and the very few radio stations in the US and Canada that do play real country music.But sadly,very few stations.No wonder so many people listen to WSM,Willies roadhouse,internet radio,etc
October 31, 2017 @ 1:31 pm
It is too bad that an amazing song like Bottom of the Barrel would have no chance on country radio. It’s really, really tough to listen to the radio anymore. I just feel blessed that we live in a time where you can download a ton of good music to your phone and avoid the radio. Also, there are sites like this one that can give publicity to acts like LeeAnn and Ashley McBryde.
October 31, 2017 @ 1:38 pm
I agree,it’s tough listening to the radio anymore.Thats why ,speaking only for myself,I only listen to the stations that play the real country stars and songs I want to hear.I play CD’s too.
October 31, 2017 @ 4:35 pm
Also Lee Ann, poop smells bad.
November 1, 2017 @ 3:03 pm
Amen sister! ! Leeann IS COUNTRY. ….AS COUNTRY AS IT GETS. This SHIT. ..plastic, bubblegum, fake twang, fake music/instruments, terrible lyrics….comical/embarrassing lyrics is what these kids and “artists” call country. Sad sad sad. It’s very sad that that’s what “country” is. I’m VERY passionate about my music. I will fight to the death for what I KNOW is music and when people want to ask if I’ve heard Jason Aldean, Blake Shelton, and others. …I puke a little in my mouth and its on! ! I HAVE to tell them to walk away. …when they can tell me who ORIGINALLY sang Tennessee Whiskey….then we can talk because clearly they are uneducated in good music and I’m going to hurt someone’s feelings!! I do kinda dig Stapleton but LOTS of over singing. But Leeann. ….Daaaaamn. ….that woman is something special. Such a talent, wonderful gift to all as a singer/songwriter, beautiful
November 1, 2017 @ 3:21 pm
That’s because that album was in a time when country music was REALLY being changed and you’ve got that Kenny Chesney and Tim McGraw to thank for that nonsense! !!!!! COUNTRY is not RAP, COUNTRY is not sitting with your ass in the sand drinking a margarita, COUNTRY is gone. ….long gone. It is no more! ! With Leeann. ….you still have something to hold on to
November 2, 2017 @ 9:37 am
Honestly, it’s quite simple. You can divide the mainstream artists into four groups.
1. The artists who are 100% serious about country music. Fiddle, steel, tradition, and great storytelling are present in their music. The music is often excellent and highly enjoyable. Sadly, there aren’t many of these left. See: Jon Pardi.
2. The artists who are serious about their work, and make excellent, well-crafted music that is highly enjoyable. The only problem is, it’s not country. It is normally either excellent pop, excellent rock, or excellent blues. See: Eric Church.
3. The artists who don’t give a fuck and shouldn’t even have a musical career in the first place. They are shitting all over our beloved genre and are the constant cause of why country radio sucks and why everyone who does care is complaining. See: Kane Brown.
4. The artists who can do better and have done better in the past, but barely even try now. Their music is neither good or bad, and is always quite boring. They make lazy attempts to stay relevant, and have somewhat of a “whatever” attitude. See: Blake Shelton.
November 2, 2017 @ 12:28 pm
That’s kind of a given (it’s been going on all decade long, and even the decade or two before that), but ok.
A lot of the popular artists will sellout to pop-country to stay popular (no doubt, equally pressured by their labels to do so).
But I have great respect to the ones who won’t conform (like Le Ann Womack), even though they won’t make a dent in commercial airplay or sales.
Watching someone like, say, Alan Jackson being forced to sing a pop-country song is just downright painful.
November 3, 2017 @ 9:50 am
Could care less about her or her music.
She’s a hypocrite.
Her thoughts and criticisms about country music are completely invalid.
I Hope You Dance.
I Hope You Shut Up.
November 7, 2017 @ 4:13 am
“Her thoughts and criticisms about country music are completely invalid”
—-Lee Ann Womack has been a major player in the industry for a couple of decades, has proven herself to be one hell of a songwriter, is arguably the BEST vocalist in the genre, has managed to stay relevant despite the constrictions and off-branding forced on her by her previous record label, and has STILL emerged with an album that is a force to be reckoned with… I’d love to hear what YOUR qualifications are that make your opinions hold so much weight. I’m Literally on the edge of my seat for your response, but i won’t hold my breath.
“I hope you dance. I hope you shut up”
— I bet that you’re one of those sad sacks of misogynist men, who are more comfortable in their masculinity when women sit pretty, and keep quiet. Unfortunately for you, the Lee Ann Womack’s of the world don’t really give a shit about your ego, and will continue to be the bad asses you only wish you were.
????????
November 3, 2017 @ 5:19 pm
Mr. Potter:
What you have just posted is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever read. At no point in you rambling, incoherent diatribe was there anything even CLOSE to what could be considered a rational thought. And everyone on this board is now dumber for having read it.
I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul…
…now go get your fuckin’ shine box!!!
November 4, 2017 @ 10:58 am
Hey Mike:
” At no point in you rambling, incoherent diatribe was there anything even CLOSE to what could be considered a rational thought.”
What language is this that you are speaking?
Idiot?
Probably…
If you are too stupid to see the very obvious point that I was making then I suggest you go and Dance.
Turn it up real loud Mikey boy.
Enjoy listening to a woman who creates music that is 100% pop shit, and then has the audacity to say that “country radio is not real country…”
Do you understand now dumbass?
I really needed to break it down for you in the simplest terms didn’t I?
Yes.. your Joe Pesci diatribe at the end sure showed me huh?
You really educated me Mike, you fucking Sheep….follow the herd boy.
Is there anything else that you needed from me?
Put down your Kelsea Ballerini and Lauren Alaina records and go and get my shine box asshole.
I have something that needs to be polished and you’re going to help me with it.
Trust me Mike..you’re going to love it.
Bitch.
November 4, 2017 @ 12:53 pm
Enjoy listening to a woman who creates music that is 100% pop shit
This is more than objectively untrue. This is utterly deranged, totally and completely disconnected from reality.
November 4, 2017 @ 12:05 pm
“Country radio right now is not REAL Country??????” Geez,LeeAnn,ya think?(How did “Body Like A Back Road” top the Country charts for ONE week,let alone THIRTY-FOUR??????)
November 5, 2017 @ 8:30 am
I usually don’t waste my time on Internet tough guys like you, Harry Potter, but since you asked, I will gladly answer your question. For starters, Shakespeare, you can stop writing your posts in poetry stanzas and use paragraphs like most people with IQs in double digits do. Second, I love how you badmouth Lee Ann Womack and accuse me of listening to Kelsea Ballerini and Lauren Alaina when in reality, Lee Ann Womack has more authenticity and talent in her right pinky toe than Ballerini and Alaina have in their whole bodies combined. Now that I have finished, I want a Whopper with cheese combo, no onions or tomatoes. Get cracking. I am in a rush, punk.
November 5, 2017 @ 5:42 pm
Wow Mike…
I’m flattered that you have chosen to waste your time on an internet tough guy like myself.
Simply flattered….
Shakespeare?
‘Twas you who initiated all of this….
If you didn’t agree with my post, that is your right.
There was no need to turn this into a personal attack, which you did.
I voiced my opinion about Womack having the stones to make her comment about country radio because songs like “I Hope You Dance’ are the epitome of cheesy, formulaic, pop music which in no way, shape or form should be classified as country music.
She’s a hypocrite plain and simple…
I don’t care how much “authentic” country music she has made throughout her career.
She has made a ton of poppy non-country music as well.
Yet she will criticize other artists who have released the EXACT same type of music?
You can disagree with me and insult me all you want Mike….You really have no idea how old I am or what I do for a living.
You are a hysterically presumptuous idiot …..
I can hardly wait to hear your lame retort…..Let’s see what unoriginal movie quote you want to throw at me this time, or maybe you can continue educating me some more on the girls of today’s country music.
You seem to be an expert in that field……..
BACK OF THE LINE ASSHOLE!!