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Remember When Steve Earle Compared Shania Twain to a Stripper?
March 15, 2012 This is perhaps the most infamous country music quote of all time. Defender of classic country Steve Earle didn't care for the new Nashville sound that was up-and-coming in the '90s. He called Garth Brooks "the Anti-Hank" and then said Shania Twain was "the highest paid lap-dancer in Nashville." In 2001, Country Weekly reported that Earle had a poster of Twain outside his office door. The word "talent" was handwritten on the poster, with an arrow pointing at her belly button.