Tanya Tucker: Bad for the Brand
By PlumcakeSometimes it’s tough being a Texan. I mean, aside from the whole Most Famous Texan on the Planet thing (who is from CONNECTICUT, people. He’s a Yankee!) who tends to give us a bad rap in general, we also tend to get stereotyped as sort of lacking in refinement.
So when I came across this picture and wiki-ed Tanya Tucker –whom I vaguely knew to be a country singer– my one prayer was “please do not let her be from Texas, please do not let her be from Texas.”
Well, she’s from Texas. Seminole, Texas to be exact, and before you ask: no I don’t like what she’s wearing, no I don’t know how she gets them to stay up like that and no, I don’t think that brothel window looks quite as nice with just the miniblinds.
February 27th, 2008 at 8:08 am
Sure, she’s from Texas, but she’s had such the life of crazy that her fug is almost fab.
February 27th, 2008 at 12:56 pm
I have always loved her and she has made some killer records too. Her version of John Prine’s “Angel from Montgomery” is probably the best version of that song ever recorded.
Lindsey and Britney can learn from her experience when it comes to surviving intense fame at a young age. Tanya rocks.
February 28th, 2008 at 4:58 pm
I prefer to think of the sphere of country music (and its clothes) as being an entirely separate culture from the one most of us inhabit. That way when you see them all be-sequined you think “oooh! exotic!” and not “what the…?”
March 4th, 2008 at 2:27 am
And she looks so happy!
March 11th, 2008 at 11:50 am
TANYA TUCKER IS A AWESOME SINGER AND PERFORMER AND SHE WILL ALWAYS BE A SUPERSTAR. SOME OF THESE NEW SINGERS COULD LEARN A LOT FROM HER ABOUT HOW TO SING A SONG WITH FEELING AND HOW TO PERFORM LIKE A PROFESSIONAL. SHE WILL STILL BE PERFORMING WHEN CARRIE UNDERWOOD AND OTHERS ARE GONE AND FORGOTTEN. I WAS BORN AND RAISED IN TEXAS AND I ALONG WITH MANY OTHER TEXANS ARE HAPPY TANYA TUCKER WAS BORN IN TEXAS. KATHY GOSS