Written for Kurrent Music
Published October 31st 2016
I am so not into country music, but I do have a few songs from the genre that I’ve always loved. Whilst traveling, it has amazed me to find TV stations dedicated to country music in the States and Australia, and they weren’t at all half bad to endure. But despite my liking some songs by The Judds and Dolly Parton, the country stars that most caught my attention are those who’ve crossed over to pop.
Among them is the biggest female cross over star: Shania Twain. It’s for her 85+ million total record sales that she will be awarded with an Icon award by Billboard. The news of this has been buzzing for weeks and it was actually the first time in a long time I’ve heard her name drop again.
I actually was convinced she had partially retired, because I remember writing about her farewell tour for my own website and even then, I was surprised she was still at it because I hadn’t heard new music in years. I just haven’t been keeping ‘up’ (pun intended).