Carrie Underwood:Women Aren't Getting a Fair Shake
Posted: January 30, 2014 10:02 pm
Carrie Underwood Says Women Aren't Getting a Fair Shake in Country Music. 'You Would Think We'd Be Farther Along"
"There seems to be room for only a few" popular females on radio, Underwood says. "I don't think women can get away with the partying, truck-driving kind of music that a lot of the guys have gotten away with lately"
In both 2012 and 2013, just three of the top 25 artists on Billboard’s Top Country Songs chart were solo women. In a Billboard Country Update column last fall, we heard what country radio has to say about this, but what do the artists themselves think?
Carrie Underwood was one of the artists who made that list of three both years (along with Miranda Lambert and Taylor Swift), and she’s among the ranks of those hoping things will improve for females this year.
"You would think that we would be farther along in the thinking about women in country music," Underwood says. "I like to think things are getting better, but then I see stats like [the one cited above] and realize that women really do seem to get the short end."
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"There seems to be room for only a few" popular females on radio, Underwood says. "I don't think women can get away with the partying, truck-driving kind of music that a lot of the guys have gotten away with lately"
In both 2012 and 2013, just three of the top 25 artists on Billboard’s Top Country Songs chart were solo women. In a Billboard Country Update column last fall, we heard what country radio has to say about this, but what do the artists themselves think?
Carrie Underwood was one of the artists who made that list of three both years (along with Miranda Lambert and Taylor Swift), and she’s among the ranks of those hoping things will improve for females this year.
"You would think that we would be farther along in the thinking about women in country music," Underwood says. "I like to think things are getting better, but then I see stats like [the one cited above] and realize that women really do seem to get the short end."
Read the rest here:
http://www.billboard.com/articles/colum ... y%20Digest