Shania Twain's Ramones T-shirt: C/D?

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I don't think it's any huge secret that I'm not a huge Shania Twain fan...well, maybe it is here, but people that know me know I don't care for her at all. I mean, I'm not particularly religious, but even I know that releasing a CD single called "God Bless the Child" about the baby Jesus and then plastering the back cover with a photo of Shania straddling the back of a couch like she's looking for some action is...well, wrong and tasteless. So I already had my hate-on for her, and then I noticed that some promotional posters that have just gone up in certain subway stops here in Toronto, to promote her new album UP (and oh how cute, the U is a smiley face) features her wearing a ripped up Ramones t-shirt specially defaced to draw attention towards her breasts. Well, fab.

It's probably the most jarring example I know of an artist wearing a t-shirt in such a calculated way (although if I recall correctly someone else here once posted about Madonna wearing some heavy metal t-shirt...Motorhead, I think). See, I remember seeing one of the Indigo Girls wearing a Husker Du T back in the day and I didn't mind that at all. This bugs the crap out of me, though, and I don't know why. How badly am I over-reacting?

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 02:42 (twenty-two years ago)

even I know that releasing a CD single called "God Bless the Child" about the baby Jesus and then plastering the back cover with a photo of Shania straddling the back of a couch like she's looking for some action is...well, wrong and tasteless.

Bitch stole my idea for my first single. Shit. Seriously, that's fantastic, Shania is my new favorite artist ever.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 02:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Because you know living in Sudbury being miss popular she probably didnt listen to the Ramones or ever hear of them till her fashion co-ordinator paid for by the label though it would increase her young hip appeal right up there with appearing naked in Maxim magazine.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 03:00 (twenty-two years ago)

You should have called in to that MMM Shania Live show tonight and asked her yourself. Also - I know it's unlikely, but do you know for a fact that she's NOT an actual Ramones fan?

― Kim (Kim), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 03:03 (twenty-two years ago)

I can't see there being too many punk fans back in the day in Sudbury.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 03:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Damm it, now Im determined to dig to the bottum of this like a young Nardwuar

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 03:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Maybe she found them in her dad...er, husband's record collection.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 03:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Right. No punk fans in Sudbury. Or in Brandon, Manitoba for that matter. ;)

― Kim (Kim), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 03:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Well there weren't many in Sydney or Springhill the only other towns with huge holes in them that I know.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 03:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Now that's a terrible thing to say about Shania!

― Kim (Kim), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 03:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Does this look like a Ramones Fan to you?
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc100/c102/c10260v8ulq.jpg

This is who she looks like a fan of, with that cover:
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc000/c047/c047981q3s6.jpg

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 03:22 (twenty-two years ago)

http://epguides.com/KimPossible/cast.jpg

Kim Quiz

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 03:31 (twenty-two years ago)

All I have to say is that basing one's idea of who someone is a fan of based on looks is a very ill sport indeed.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 03:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, you're right. I guess it was just an excuse to do a cover connection again. I am so terrible.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 03:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Remember what I was saying on that record stores thread about people sometimes looking at me like I don't belong there? This is exactly what I was taking about.

(or in other words - what Ally said)

In reality, I see what you're saying - but you know, this isn't the way to say it.

― Kim (Kim), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 03:36 (twenty-two years ago)

I only got to 300 on that quiz! I'll have to see more episodes of the show to establish the proper cred. Damn.

― Kim (Kim), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 03:40 (twenty-two years ago)

I again offer myself up for slicing and dicing. I still question whether she's a Ramones fan, though. =)

I only got 200 on that quiz. Even more reason I suck tonight.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 03:50 (twenty-two years ago)

For what it's worth - Chart Attack agrees with you.

http://www.chartattack.com/damn/2002/10/0706.cfm

― Kim (Kim), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 04:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Can we get a picture of ST in Ramones garb?

― jm, Tuesday, 12 November 2002 06:27 (twenty-two years ago)

The new one's great except for the lyrics. A vocoder on country radio. Cockteasing a decepticon in the video. Roxx!

― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 06:39 (twenty-two years ago)

maybe she is wearing it for that sexy trashy young (ish) thing look? i.e. the same as straddling the couch looking for some trailer park action after singing in the church choir about the baby jesus?

― doom-e, Tuesday, 12 November 2002 07:41 (twenty-two years ago)

joey is the nu-white trash jesus.

― doom-e, Tuesday, 12 November 2002 08:09 (twenty-two years ago)

At least she's not singing AC/DC covers.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 08:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Why is it hard to believe that she likes the Ramones? Not like they're obscure or inaccessible (even in Sudbury). Also, why would a Ramones T-shirt help your cachet with a young crowd?

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 11:20 (twenty-two years ago)

I was going to say Dud until I read:
her wearing a ripped up Ramones t-shirt specially defaced to draw attention towards her breasts.

Now I think further research is in order.

― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 12:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Alex In NYC to thread!

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 12:33 (twenty-two years ago)

come on, folks! haven't you ever heard that great ramones classic 'shania is a punk rocker'?! sean, it's funny you mention emily from the indigo girls wearing a husker du tee on the 'nomads, indians, saints' record - it was precisely what compelled me to buy it in the first place, and i retain a fondness for it (and for the indigo girls generally) even though it's a squillion miles away from the huskers musically. who knows, maybe this is her first tentative step towards a musical renaissance. maybe she's planning a record of throbbing gristle covers as we type. now wouldn't that be something...

― angelo (angelo), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 13:35 (twenty-two years ago)

this has bugged me for years so i hope someone can confirm or deny, but i've always been convinced that in the very first new kids on the block video (the right stuff?), one of them is wearing a bauhaus 'bela lugusi's dead' t-shirt.

is this correct - and if so why?

― adam b (adam b), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 13:40 (twenty-two years ago)

I remember that video/shirt. I still don't know why they dressed him that way.

― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 13:43 (twenty-two years ago)

why= cz bauhaus rock!!

i am a ramones fan = i wz a ramones fan ever since i wz born?? maybe she only heard the ramones after she left sudbury? if "sudbury taste" is all that defines her, why wd she ever have left it? snooker player steve davies is a top fan of magma, but he doesn't play snooker in a magma-like fashion (sadly)

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 13:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Right. Bauhaus = rock. New Kids wearing Bauhaus shirt yeilds NKoTB = rock via shirttails.

― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 13:48 (twenty-two years ago)

the steve davis/magma thing is just too good to be true. did you see his all time top three records in the observer sports magazine?

number one was a really obscure nothern soul floor-filler

number two was something by magma

and number three was.....it's too good, but it's true! 'snooky loopy nuts are we'.

the man is pure class.

― adam b (adam b), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 13:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Timmins, Ontario != Sudbury but still another place in Northern Ontario I wish I haven't been to.

Problem is, she's clad in a skin-tight Ramones T-shirt, re-stitched in that ever-popular single-shoulder-strap Jane Of The Jungle style. Shania Twain in a freakin' Ramones shirt!

This is even worse then Britney in a school girl uniform.
I fear for radio in this country next year.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 14:17 (twenty-two years ago)

steve davis likes magma!!!

you learn something here every day.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 14:24 (twenty-two years ago)

alex higgins, by contrast, will listen only to 'operation mindcrime' by queensryche.

it is thought that this gave added edge to their fierce rivalry on the green baize.

― adam b (adam b), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 14:31 (twenty-two years ago)

This is even worse then Britney in a school girl uniform.

no, it's just less good.

― michael wells (michael w.), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 14:40 (twenty-two years ago)

I seem to remember Steve Davis actually paid to put on a Magma gig in London several years ago.

Rumours that Chas & Dave were going to be the support proved unfounded....

― James Ball (James Ball), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 14:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Dear Mr Noodles,

in regard to your timmins comment - i have one question - AND STILL THINK THAT AFTER GOING TO HAMILTON FOR THE SWEARING AT MOTORISTS SHOW. I USED TO LIVE IN HAMMER-ROCK (HOME OF THE ROCK). IT IS LIKE BEING STUCK IN A BON JOVI/DAVID LYNCH NIGHTMARE WITH WORSE MUSIC THAN THE DARKNESS! YIKES!

if shania can get some mor freaks into ramones - good, thing, surely.

canada must be the home of the rabid joey ramone fan.

― doom-e, Tuesday, 12 November 2002 15:07 (twenty-two years ago)

well, it'd be good for the ramones. why would it matter to anyone else?

― adam b (adam b), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 15:09 (twenty-two years ago)

its a t shirt. big deal. is she a fan? you hear one song youve heard them all, and thats a good thing. would joey give a hoot? i doubt it. sheesh, its the ramones not reich.

― kephm, Tuesday, 12 November 2002 15:12 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.shaniaforums.com/attachment.php?s=a8f4ac689c4410591c84ec1adc23355d&postid=206468

― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 15:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Hey I got relatives in that town, okay their all nuts or moved up the hill, nothing like driving over the Skyway at night to see the fire coming out of the smokestacks.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 15:20 (twenty-two years ago)

SHE DIES NOW!!!!!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 15:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Didn't I post a whole thread about this? Ah yes, here `tis:

Band T-shirt Etiquette

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 15:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Now do you see? Do you see!

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 15:32 (twenty-two years ago)

What?

― Graham (graham), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 15:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Regardless of the shirt, Shinia Twain must die before this country, and most of the states must suffer with dooot doot doot doo I Feel Like a Lady dooot dooot doo all over again! Line dancing will become acceptable and possibly popular again.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 15:37 (twenty-two years ago)

She looks awful in it. That's the saving grace, she looks just horrendous. She can't do anything right: everything she touches turns middle-of-the-road. I don't care how she sells, she's just waaay off base.

― matt riedl (veal), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 15:58 (twenty-two years ago)

It's always good to know that you're here to provide the moderate position, Mr. N.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 16:00 (twenty-two years ago)

It's always good to know that you're here to provide the moderate position, Mr. N.

I never put my hand up for that job. There are a few things that push my buttons and two of them are Bluegrass and 'New Country'.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 16:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Skipping 281 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

At first I thought this thread had gone on a bit too long. And that was in November.. Then it got to be funny that it was so long .. By the time I posted that last bit, it was so old that it just wasn't funny anymore.

But, will wonders never cease, it's already starting to be funny to me again.

― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 4 February 2003 18:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Let's revive this awful thread, as Fred Durst was sporting a Minor Threat T-shirt at the press conference for the Metallica tour yesterday. So, Alex in NYC and Anthony Miccio, FITE!

http://www.mtv.com/shared/media/news/images/m/Metallica/sq-limp-linkin-metallica-tour-mtv.jpg

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Thursday, 6 February 2003 20:31 (twenty-two years ago)

One more pic, since in this one it looks like Lars' neck just snapped.

http://metallica.com/news/2003/images/feb5_2.jpg

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Thursday, 6 February 2003 20:37 (twenty-two years ago)

I do like the way his tongue is all lolling out of his head (even more so than before). I think what is more amusing is how Fred Durst is mutating into Tommy Lee.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 6 February 2003 20:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Bald metal stars of the world UNITE!

This reminds me of seeing one of the members of Metallica (Jamez, I think) sporting an SNFU t-shirt on the back of one of their earlier releases. At the time I thought it was really cool that the band would give that kind of exposure to a small Canadian band that really could use that kind of exposure. On the other hand, I wonder what the end result was for SNFU: did they actually get any noticeable attention from that photo? And if they did, was it helpful? (in other words, did they get new fans that actually appreciated what they were doing, or was it just a bunch of metal meatheads that didn't really have any real affinity with SNFU in the first place?)

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Thursday, 6 February 2003 21:03 (twenty-two years ago)

(oh and yeah by the way I'm shocked that this thread is still going)

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Thursday, 6 February 2003 21:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Anyone know who Fred's stylist is? Wait. You mean he doesn't pick out those hats himself???

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Thursday, 6 February 2003 21:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Strike "doesn't" from that last sentence. Argh.

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Thursday, 6 February 2003 21:06 (twenty-two years ago)

But then the grammar police will get you, Yanc3y!

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Thursday, 6 February 2003 21:07 (twenty-two years ago)

You got a place I can hide?

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Thursday, 6 February 2003 21:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Despite the fact that Fred Durst almost singularly personifies the very attributes Minor Threat once sought to erase from the hardcore scene, I feel reasonably certain that he's at least familiar with their music, and probably spent at least a little bit of time listening to it (even if the message contained therein eluded him),......unlike Shania and the Ramones. Basically, I can believe that, despite him being a thankless, meatnecked mook, Fred Durst is a Minor Threat fan.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 6 February 2003 21:29 (twenty-two years ago)

THREE CHEERS FOR THE PHRASE "thankless, meatnecked mook"!

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 6 February 2003 22:15 (twenty-two years ago)

three weeks pass...

Made ya look!

― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 12:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Evil! Evil! Impolite and evil!

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 14:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Her house was built by AC/DC and Def Leppard, so I don't find it extremely unbelievable that she'd heard some gtr music sometime in her existence

― dave q, Wednesday, 5 March 2003 14:53 (twenty-two years ago)

*pours acid over eyes*

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 14:56 (twenty-two years ago)

This thread always makes me smile. It's so primitive.

I still like the gasoline commercial, I mean, "In My Car (I'll Be the Driver)."

― felicity (felicity), Saturday, 8 March 2003 17:27 (twenty-two years ago)

hi my greetings to u
I am with much pleasure to write u this letter any way how is business? Hope fine.
The reason why am writting u this letter is that i want u to help with some t-shirts for my workers so pls mail me back and let me know the cost price of each so that i will give the qt i need. Thank you Good luck and have a nice day ok

― mark mase, Sunday, 16 March 2003 22:26 (twenty-two years ago)

mark mase is actually shania googling her own name

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Sunday, 16 March 2003 22:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Shania Twain t-shirt: $25
Ramones t-shirt: $20
Ability of Shania in a Ramones t-shirt to generate controversy and bloat ILX's db: priceless

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Sunday, 16 March 2003 23:17 (twenty-two years ago)

I actually have the said same shirt that caused all this controversy.

― Ally (mlescaut), Sunday, 16 March 2003 23:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Is it ripped the same way? More to the point, Ally, do you have a photo of you in it with mountains in the background?

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Monday, 17 March 2003 00:36 (twenty-two years ago)

I wish I had a photo like that. I need to find some mountains, like pronto. I don't think they have those in Manhattan. :( :(

― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 17 March 2003 02:43 (twenty-two years ago)

I actually have the said same shirt that caused all this controversy.
Picked it out of Shania's trash can. It served its purpose and She'll never wear it again.

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Monday, 17 March 2003 14:48 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v38/killerwaves/hilaryduff.bmp
REVIVE

― LE CHUCK!™ (ex machina), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 04:01 (twenty years ago)

Yeah yeah yeah.

― Peanuts (Peanuts), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 04:47 (twenty years ago)

Jesus.

http://www.volny.cz/hiva1/corrs.jpg

― Peanuts (Peanuts), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 04:48 (twenty years ago)

today I saw 3 sorority-looking girls walking around and one of them had a Ramones shirt on, and I really had no idea whether to cheer her music taste on the inside or sneer at her ironic sense of style on the inside.

― Al (sitcom), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 06:49 (twenty years ago)

was it ironic??? i think she probably likes the ramones!

― LE CHUCK!™ (ex machina), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 07:05 (twenty years ago)

ten months pass...

The 2005 equivalent. I have no righteous indignation -- instead, happy appreciation.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 03:18 (twenty years ago)

three months pass...

http://citypaper.com/sb/87753/music_BowMed.jpg

― $#@!!!!, Tuesday, 3 January 2006 17:55 (nineteen years ago)

WHO'S LIL NO?W

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 18:00 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.theonering.net/scrapbook/group/1768/view/16536

god naomi watts is so hot in that photo

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 18:21 (nineteen years ago)

Is she repping VU fandom or AW fandom, though? THINGS MATTER.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 18:22 (nineteen years ago)

she's repping bananas

― detoxyDancer (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 18:57 (nineteen years ago)

haha, i actually hadn't made that connection.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 19:01 (nineteen years ago)

that last comment from peter jackson in that inset is sinister, isn't it

― gear (gear), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 19:02 (nineteen years ago)

it was edited from the original "I am the future of filmmaking"

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 19:03 (nineteen years ago)

"Pre-visualized"

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 19:05 (nineteen years ago)

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I can't see there being too many punk fans back in the day in Sudbury.
-- Mr Noodles

Maybe a coupla years too late to answer this (I ain't read the whole thread yet!), but my step-cousins were surely among the first punk fans in Garson - a "suburb" of Sudbury for those unaware. And it's just because I happened to be visiting them at the time that I was able to hear Never Mind The Bollocks the very day it arrived in Sudbury shops, December 31, 1977. Sounded OK to me, but I was more impressed by Rocket To Russia.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 22:17 (nineteen years ago)

Think Bow Wow can name five Pantera songs? Bet he can't.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 00:22 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.savetherobot.com/images/NickRamones.jpg

― save the robot (save the robot), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 00:35 (nineteen years ago)

poser

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 01:35 (nineteen years ago)

You just bought yourself a tiny knuckle sandwich

― save the robot (save the robot), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

eight years pass...

a member of the band 5 Seconds Of Summer wore a Misfits shirt on the Billboard Music Awards tonight, so be prepared for a few days of this kind of bitching and moaning again

― some dude, Monday, 19 May 2014 00:55 (eleven years ago)

rorschach's journal - may 8th, 2014: counter clerk at rick's mkt off rt 2 wearing a misfits t shirt w/ her marlboro visor. snorted derisively & took my patronage elsewhere.

― katsu kittens (contenderizer), Monday, 19 May 2014 02:55 (eleven years ago)

lol

― some dude, Monday, 19 May 2014 03:00 (eleven years ago)

hahaha

― balls, Monday, 19 May 2014 03:08 (eleven years ago)

eleven years pass...

Robbie Williams with a Misfits battle jacket. He’s also wearing a Milli Vanilli tee so covering all bases,

It’s all good though as Tony Iommi rocks hard on it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfAFBOECxw4

― Dan Worsley, Friday, 30 May 2025 19:34 (four months ago)

From the original post: "It's probably the most jarring example I know of an artist wearing a t-shirt in such a calculated way..."

True then, for sure. Today, like drawing breath.

― clemenza, Friday, 30 May 2025 22:09 (four months ago)

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