Here’s a couple.
Ah, I see what you mean. I ran a reverse image search on the second one and found this quote from her about drag queens:
“First of all, it takes a lot of courage. I mean, fashion in itself takes courage. You’re taking on a lot. And then the makeup, the ability to put their own makeup on and do such a beautiful job. I’ve learned a lot from drag queens. I watched their tutorials because no, I’ve never seen such transformation in some of these talents that their faces go through. Just through creative makeup. It’s very impressive and their fashion, I don’t know, I’m very inspired by it … I think we need this inspiration; we need drag queens to share their talent with us.”
From what I can tell, she didn't start using drag queen-inspired fashion or openly praising the LGBT movement until she was older. I saw some online comments from people saying she might have started doing it in order to pander to the Powers that Be when she was making her comeback post-Lyme disease (which had put her out of commission, career-wise, for 15 years).
In 2018, she made a comment in a Guardian interview that if she was American rather than Canadian, she would have voted for Trump:
"I would have voted for him because, even though he was offensive, he seemed honest. Do you want straight or polite? Not that you shouldn’t be able to have both. If I were voting, I just don’t want bullshit. I would have voted for a feeling that it was transparent. And politics has a reputation of not being that, right?"
But after she received backlash for the comment, she backtracked and apologized.
One interesting thing I noticed in that second article is that she was apparently sexually abused by her stepfather when she was growing up.
By the way, if you're interested in some fairly recent country music that's authentic and classic, I'd recommend checking out the Millwinders (a "rockabilly" band that played 1950-1960s-style rock and roll, country, and rhythm and blues music - they worked in a variety of styles). Sadly, the band split up around 2017 or 2018, but they have two great albums on Bandcamp.
Here's the music video for one of their country songs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lcuCGASaoo
Here's the Bandcamp page (which includes the ability to listen to the track for free) of my favorite country song by them:
https://millwinders.bandcamp.com/track/in-time-she-will
And here's the lead singer on most of their songs, Sarah Butler, performing a Patsy Cline cover with another band:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27R7HI4S54M
Here's another example of real country music from recent years from a band called The Delorean Sisters (the band are somewhat modern-looking, but their musical style is classic):
Here’s a couple.
Ah, I see what you mean. I ran a reverse image search on the second one and found this quote from her about drag queens:
“First of all, it takes a lot of courage. I mean, fashion in itself takes courage. You’re taking on a lot. And then the makeup, the ability to put their own makeup on and do such a beautiful job. I’ve learned a lot from drag queens. I watched their tutorials because no, I’ve never seen such transformation in some of these talents that their faces go through. Just through creative makeup. It’s very impressive and their fashion, I don’t know, I’m very inspired by it … I think we need this inspiration; we need drag queens to share their talent with us.”
From what I can tell, she didn't start using drag queen-inspired fashion or openly praising the LGBT movement until she was older. I saw some online comments from people saying she might have started doing it in order to pander to the Powers that Be when she was making her comeback post-Lyme disease (which had put her out of commission, career-wise, for 15 years).
In 2018, she made a comment in a Guardian interview that if she was American rather than Canadian, she would have voted for Trump:
"I would have voted for him because, even though he was offensive, he seemed honest. Do you want straight or polite? Not that you shouldn’t be able to have both. If I were voting, I just don’t want bullshit. I would have voted for a feeling that it was transparent. And politics has a reputation of not being that, right?"
But after she received backlash for the comment, she backtracked and apologized.
One interesting I noticed in that second article is that she was apparently sexually abused by her stepfather when she was growing up.
By the way, if you're interested in some fairly recent country music that's authentic and classic, I'd recommend checking out the Millwinders (a "rockabilly" band that played 1950-1960s-style rock and roll, country, and rhythm and blues music - they worked in a variety of styles). Sadly, the band split up around 2017 or 2018, but they have two great albums on Bandcamp.
Here's the music video for one of their country songs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lcuCGASaoo
Here's the Bandcamp page (which includes the ability to listen to the track for free) of my favorite country song by them:
https://millwinders.bandcamp.com/track/in-time-she-will
And here's the lead singer on most of their songs, Sarah Butler, performing a Patsy Cline cover with another band:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27R7HI4S54M
Here's another example of real country music from recent years from a band called The Delorean Sisters (the band are somewhat modern-looking, but their musical style is classic):