Rolling Stone Shades Taylor Swift and Praises Shania
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In 1999, Shania Twain was at the peak of her commercial success. Two years prior, she had released the blockbuster country album Come on Over, a record that would sell a staggering 40 million copies worldwide (by comparison, Taylor Swift's best-selling release so far, Fearless, has tallied a little less than 9 million). Featuring hits like "Man! I Feel Like a Woman," "You're Still the One" and "That Don't Impress Me Much," Come on Over became a genre-busting sensation, due in part to a re-released pop mix of the album. An accompanying tour further solidified her as country's most recognizable female superstar.
Twain went on to follow up Come on Over with 2002's Up! and a greatest hits compilation in 2004, before slowly dropping out of the public eye. She endured a divorce from her producer husband Robert "Mutt" Lange and subsequent vocal issues, before making a high-profile — and triumphant — return to the stage in 2012, headlining her own Las Vegas spectacle, Shania: Still the One. A regular showroom draw at Caesars Palace's Colosseum, the show is currently scheduled to run through summer 2014.
Screw sales climates. Taylor Swift is definitely one of the better selling and more consistent selling female artists right now. So I'm not even sure why this unnecessary comparison was made. Taylor is doing more than fine.
I don't find it really shady. Yes, it was absolutely unnecessary, but not shady. The fact that they decided to bring up Taylor in an article that has nothing to do with her shows that they know that Taylor is the current country-pop Queen, so they have to draw comparisons between her and the former country-pop queen ("Former" because she stopped releasing music).
Point is, you don't have to downplay people's success in order to praise others'.
No clue why they're comparing Taylor's sales during this dismal album sales climate to Shania's sales. They could have praised Shania (who very well deserves the praise) without comparing her to other artists.
I don't find it really shady. Yes, it was absolutely unnecessary, but not shady. The fact that they decided to bring up Taylor in an article that has nothing to do with her shows that they know that Taylor is the current country-pop Queen, so they have to draw comparisons between her and the former country-pop queen ("Former" because she stopped releasing music).
Point is, you don't have to downplay people's success in order to praise others'.
Exactly!
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If Adele can do it then albums can sell well.
No one is saying they can't sell well, it's just highly unlikely and unusual right now.
Adele is the exception. If you go by chart performance (not sales, but its actual performance on the charts, how many weeks at what position, etc), 21 is literally the most successful album of ALL TIME. Even moreso than Thriller.
