The_Dude

Me and a friend of mine had an arguement about this.

I say that she is a country artist and my friend disagrees with me.

I've listened to a lot of her songs and although they are a little different, I still think she is a country artist. The line between genres and increasingly becoming blurred, but she still sounds like a country star.

Any thoughts?

I'm only including 2 options to this poll cuz I want a definite answer.

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Derwood

I vote for "Pain", because she's performing on the TV show I work for in a few weeks, which means an assload of work for me.

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K-Wise

Anyone and everyone I thought had agreed that she was both. Cause really pop only means popular music and she's a country artist who makes popular music. Jay Z, Eminem, Ludacris asside from all being rappers they are all also pop artists whether they'd like to admit it or not. They aren't trying to be it's just people like it so it's popular.

Asta!!

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djtestudo

If you are going to make country music, it needs to sound country. She doesn't sound like that.

She's worse then Faith Hill, who is less country now then Kid Rock.

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BigGov

Where's the "crap" option?

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ARTelevision

how about we let artists define themselves?

besides that, categories are for marketing not for listening.

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battlemouth

pountry?

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bundy

she´s neither... she´s Canadian... /hides...

j/k

i think she fits into both categories... since her first album was really very country... and her next was more poppy.

like Leann Rimes and many others, i think shes a representative of both genres of music.

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CSflim

That's the problem. There is no answer.
Categorisations of music are used for matters of convience only. It is not merely a case of lines "being blurred", the lines don't exist in the first place.
Your question can only be properly posed in a manner such as:
If you owned a record store, on what shelf would you place Shania Twain's album?
Well, the intelligent answer to that question would be that you should place it where your customers would most likely expect to find it.
So "defining" musical categorisations becomes a circular exercise.
If people "think" Shania Twain is pop, then it's pop, if people "think" it's country, then it's country, but either way it has absolutely no bearing on the actual content of the music.

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castex

She's Mutt's prize for having to sit in studios with Def Leppard for all those years.

Nostromo

I really like Shania Twain, but only when the volume is off.

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mercury-hg

damn you mutt lang

The_Dude

lol, there are more hate-comments toward her than comments on topic.

just thought it was funny

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otnorot

popular country

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Kaos

I would like to quote something from a story about a REAL country singer, Willie Nelson:

"...Willie still resents Nashville--Not just for what it did to him but for the prefab, soulless crap it continues to churn out and call country music."

Her music is pop music, not country (since the second album). Not to say it's bad, it's just not country.

Fly

who cares?

i just know i'd like to pop Shania Twain on a country road though.

so she's pop,and country then,.... right?

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Neo26

That's cool, since Shania resents Nashville too. Shania has more in common with Willie than most acts coming out of Nashville do. And Willie has been a Shania supporter in the past.

And Shania is both country and pop. I see no reason why someone can't be both.