Hayden Panettiere, Kelly Clarkson, Nicole Kidman and extra stars have all stepped out of their consolation zones — and into their cowboy boots — to get into the nation groove.
Panettiere starred on Nashville from October 2012 to July 2018, portraying rising nation star Juliette Barnes, and recording greater than 40 songs for the soundtrack.
In actual life, Clarkson has additionally dipped a toe into the nation world,teaming up with Jason Aldean for 2010’s “Don’t You Wanna Keep.” The Texas native has some robust emotions about how the genre has developed over time.
“Nation music doesn’t sound nation anymore … Nation music is gone,” she stated throughout a 2019 YouTube Q&A. “Like, I don’t know who’s making it, however there is likely to be, like, 4 folks. Now it’s, like, bizarre phrase rap.”
Her quibbles with the style have been private, not skilled. “I’m not within the nation music trade. I’m not making an attempt to get performed on nation radio,” Clarkson defined, suggesting that musicians placed on “’80s and ‘90s data on and let’s work out, ‘What’s nation music? What’s the sound we like once more?’ As a result of it’s not what you’re taking part in on the radio. I’m mad about it.”
Maintain scrolling for a have a look at how a few of the greatest names in Hollywood have embraced nation roots: