Red High Heels
Today I'm going to write about something very hush-hush. Something that responsible city-lovin' girls like me don't talk about, a dark secret that they hide deep inside. Or not.
Some of us shout it from the rooftops - and the more we do, the more we find that there are others just like us, others who feel the same way. Others who also... shhh... love Country Music!
I've loved country music for years, and I've copped a fair amount of flak for it too. It's bizarre how many people think they hate country music, without knowing enough about it to judge it fairly! I was on the dating website RSVP for a short time, and if had a dollar for every guy who wrote in the Music section 'I like ALL kinds of music, except country and opera', I'd be a rich girl now, living in a mansion in Nashville.
Why are people so anti-country? Don't they realise that so very many pop and rock songs are based on country rhythms and even more pop and rock artists are influenced by country music? Surely they have to know that country music was the original popular music - and everyone, from Elvis to the Beatles and through to recent rock bands, has been inspired by those heartfelt chords and repetitive pleading choruses.
I have one particular girlfriend who refuses to get in my car and drive anywhere with me, because I listen to country music. But then I hop into her car, she flips a CD into the stereo and all of a sudden, Taylor Swift is blaring out of the speakers. What the? Are we on the same planet? Because Taylor Swift is a country singer. Her songs are popular, but she is a country artist. And you know Lady Antebellum, that fab trio who took out the Grammy for Best Album last year? Yeah, they are country artists too!
Female country music artists are blazing a style trail through popular culture as well - you just need to check out Taylor, Carrie Underwood, Hillary Scott of Lady Antebellum and Julianne Hough (star of the new Footloose remake) to see how well country starlets are rocking the red carpets. Once mocked for enormous blonde beehive hair-do's and... ahem... well-filled corsets, country music stars are now famous for sleek long locks and svelte figures.
Some of us shout it from the rooftops - and the more we do, the more we find that there are others just like us, others who feel the same way. Others who also... shhh... love Country Music!
I've loved country music for years, and I've copped a fair amount of flak for it too. It's bizarre how many people think they hate country music, without knowing enough about it to judge it fairly! I was on the dating website RSVP for a short time, and if had a dollar for every guy who wrote in the Music section 'I like ALL kinds of music, except country and opera', I'd be a rich girl now, living in a mansion in Nashville.
Why are people so anti-country? Don't they realise that so very many pop and rock songs are based on country rhythms and even more pop and rock artists are influenced by country music? Surely they have to know that country music was the original popular music - and everyone, from Elvis to the Beatles and through to recent rock bands, has been inspired by those heartfelt chords and repetitive pleading choruses.
I have one particular girlfriend who refuses to get in my car and drive anywhere with me, because I listen to country music. But then I hop into her car, she flips a CD into the stereo and all of a sudden, Taylor Swift is blaring out of the speakers. What the? Are we on the same planet? Because Taylor Swift is a country singer. Her songs are popular, but she is a country artist. And you know Lady Antebellum, that fab trio who took out the Grammy for Best Album last year? Yeah, they are country artists too!
Female country music artists are blazing a style trail through popular culture as well - you just need to check out Taylor, Carrie Underwood, Hillary Scott of Lady Antebellum and Julianne Hough (star of the new Footloose remake) to see how well country starlets are rocking the red carpets. Once mocked for enormous blonde beehive hair-do's and... ahem... well-filled corsets, country music stars are now famous for sleek long locks and svelte figures.
(clockwise from top left: Carrie Underwood (yes, I met her!), Hillary Scott, Taylor Swift, Julianne Hough (in CORAL!!!))
My personal favourite is Kellie Pickler, who consistently looks amazing and sassy, and along with her BFF Taylor Swift, works red-carpet glamour as well as Hollywood movie stars!
(Kellie strutting her stuff on the red carpet)
(Taylor and Kellie goofing around)
(Kellie looking AMAZING at country music events - the bronze dress is to die for!)
Now, it's not just the fashions that these talented girls are influencing, head on over to The Beauty Scholar, where my lovely friend SJ has featured the ladies of Country Music and their stunning beauty looks!
And if you're in the mood for frocking up and heading out, this song by Kellie Pickler will have you dancing around the bedroom as you get ready - it's PERFECT for pre-drinks!
Posted by Katy Potaty CUPCAKE LADY at Friday, October 28, 2011 8:29 PM 
Categories: Fashion/Style, blogs
Categories: Fashion/Style, blogs
I KNOW, right. I don't love ALL country, and had my moments when I didn't listen much to it at all (that transition stage from Slim Dusty to Keith Urban I think). But seriously - these days it is seriously SEXY baby.
NB Did you see the one and only TJ Dennis visited me the other day? Awesome..
BB
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Yes, I saw - that's so amazing! Isn't this little interwebs such a fabulous way of bringing people together?!
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We'll forgive your country music guilty pleasure, only because you have such great style!
Delia
www.whatshouldiwear.com.au
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