Filed under: ACMs, Country Music | Tags: 1996, 90's, blockbuster, No One Needs To Know, Shania Twain, Twister
This past week, as I was browsing YouTube, I came across Shania Twain’s music video for “No One Needs To Know” which featured clips of the 1996 blockbuster Twister. After watching the music video, I decided to go rent the movie and watch it. While the movie isn’t the most riveting thing to watch, I did enjoy it. I’ve always been a fan of 90’s movies, as I love the 90’s decade. Probably not a surprise since I was born in the 90’s and had a great childhood throughout the decade.
While Twister and Shania’s “No One Needs To Know” have very little in common; I loved the music video and the movie scenes that were featured in it. And as I watched the movie, I couldn’t help but lose my train of thinking, when the song played during the cafe scene.
So this led me to thinking, in the majority of cases; which one(songs or movies) seem to benefit the most out of the whole ordeal?
Filed under: Country Music, Country/Pop, Flashback Series | Tags: 2000, Blue Clear Sky, Blue On Black, Dixie Chicks, Flashback Series, George Strait, I Hope You Dance, Kenny Wayne Shpepard, Lee Ann Womack, Lonestar, No News, There's Your Trouble
“I Hope You Dance” became a crossover hit back in 2000 when it went number one on both the country and adult contemporary charts. The songs success isn’t much of a shocker, given it’s message. This song has had multiple interpretations, whether it be about a mother advising her daughters not to make the same mistakes she did, and sit it out instead of dance or a lover hoping that her loved one will not became bitter after she is gone. Either way you interpret it, the song’s message can be heard loud and clear when she belts out “DANCE!”
Interesting Facts:
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In an interview with Songwriter Universe magazine, Sillers explained that she was going through a painful divorce when she wrote this song. Said Sillers: “For ‘I Hope You Dance,’ I had written the opening line, ‘I hope you never lose your sense of wonder. I had just broken up with someone, going through a brutal divorce. I needed to get away, so I went to a beach on the Florida Gulf Coast. Sitting on the beach and reflecting about the break-up, I felt so small and inconsequential. But out of this difficult time came the inspiration to write ‘I Hope You Dance.’ As I was leaving the beach, I remember thinking that things weren’t really so bad, that I would get through it. That’s when I came up with the line, ‘I hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean.’”
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This was written by Tia Sillers and Mark Sanders. Sillers also wrote “There’s Your Trouble” for The Dixie Chicks and “Blue On Black” for Kenny Wayne Shepherd. Sanders has written several Country hits, including “Blue Clear Sky” for George Strait and “No News” for Lonestar.
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This won the Grammy Award for Best Country Song and also the Country Music Award for Song Of The Year.
Filed under: Country Music, Country/Pop, Electropop, Pop Music | Tags: Country Music, Country/Pop, CSI, Electropop, Fearless, Remix, Sophomore, Taylor Swift, You're Not Sorry
While doing my homework this past Thursday night, my sister came 
downstairs and turned the tv on to watch CSI, mostly because Taylor Swift was guest-starring. While watching I won’t say I thought Taylor was a great actor, but you gotta give the girl props; she’s 19, has already had two hit albums and looks like, with time, she could hold her own in acting.
Moving on, while I thought the episode was interesting, I was more fascinated by the remixed version of “You’re Not Sorry” that was played during the show. The remix was much more electropop compared to Swift’s usual country/pop. After hearing it, I couldn’t help but wonder if Swift would be better off going completely pop.
Many of us know that Taylor is definitely in the confines of country/pop more than any other genre in country music (and some could still argue that.) Her recent sophomore album Fearless just further cemented that. There’s also no doubt that Taylor will be a great songwriter for the next decade and maybe more to come. But the real question is should Taylor ditch all of her country roots and go pop, or should she still stay in the confines of the country/pop genre for now?
