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Can't Forget The Motor City: Our Favorite Motown Jams, Part 2
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Can't Forget The Motor City: Our Favorite Motown Jams
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He Said She Said: Did We Shave Our Legs For This? More Cornball Country Comedy
Not all country music has to be about down-and-out truck-driving lifestyles, D-I-V-O-R-C-E, abusive husbands and the dissolution of the American Dream. More than any other genre, country lends itself so nicely to parody and self-satire. The best country music is self-referential, where the artist knows he or she is poking fun at an archetype. Maybe that's why She Said likes Dale Watson and Junior Brown so much - their ability to write countless songs about the same old country trope, as if the joke never gets old.
Below, some of She Said's favorite funny country songs.More »
He Said She Said: "Dear Penis" And Other Country Comedy Classics
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He Said She Said: Just A Few Ole Country Boys, Part 2
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He Said She Said: Just A Few Ole Country Boys
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He Said She Said: Our Favorite Lady Country Singers, Part 2
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As much as He Said bows at the altars of guys like Johnny Cash, Billy Joe Shaver, George Strait, and Ernest Tubb, we have always had an affinity for female country songs. Their songs have as much grit and gristle as anything a man can dish out, and in the early days it wasn't such an easy task for a woman to be as forward artistically or lyrically.
The pioneering country ladies were fighting oppression through their music little by little. They wrote songs about personal freedom, self-respect, and dignity in the face of the outright goon behavior of the men in their stories. Things like the riot grrl scene in the '90s had a great deal of debt to the Loretta and Tammy.
Even the new gals on the block like Taylor Swift and Carrie Underwood, who can still both be loosely defined as country (we guess), show a great deal more self-reliance in their voices than most girls their same age in other genres. The Dixie Chicks exhibited more testicular fortitude in two songs than most fey indie bands do over two albums.
Another reason He Said thinks he enjoys female country singers is the fact that it allows him into a foreign world he isn't privy to. When we were younger, we always remember hearing our mother blaring her favorite girls like Reba McEntire, Trisha Yearwood and Lorrie Morgan to get her frustration out when she and He Said Sr. would have a fight.More »
He Said She Said: Our Favorite Lady Country Singers
Categories: He Said She Said, Lists
What's that joke about country music? That if you play it backwards, the singer gets his car back, he gets his wife back, and he gets his dog back? There's a particular narrative in country - men's country, at least - that lends itself to formulaic and often-times jingoistic sentiments that have never really appealed all that much to She Said.*
Women, on the other hand, seem to write country music from a broader range of emotion and experience. With a genre as intensely emotional and sentimental as country often is, it makes perfect sense that women would excel at it.More »
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