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Frank Kogan ([personal profile] koganbot) wrote2009-08-03 10:23 am

She wanted her a real cowboy, it was a phase she was goin' through

In [livejournal.com profile] poptimists best of 2001, these two show up in the next heat or the one after:

Jamie O'Neal "Shiver": Warm and womanly, country drawing on AC pop (or vice versa), a power ballad that reaches beautifully without having to blow the sky away:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfv9YlHIeg0

Montgomery Gentry "She Couldn't Change Me": Posted this once before: Pride that's fueled by resentment and insecurity and comes off in-your-face obnoxious but exhilaratingly so, and kind of funny at that. After years of admiring country and loving some of its products when I came across them, this was the song that made me fall in love with the genre, fucked up or not, and not least when it scares and angers me.