Mrs Wainwright, secondary school Geography teacher used to always say "The answer is in the question".

40 years later I see things like this, and can hear Mrs Wainwright's voice clear as day.

@selzero I need this female country in my life, where can I sub?
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@[email protected] Dixie Chick's "Goodbye Earl" is a domestic abuse freedom song. https://youtu.be/Gw7gNf_9njs?si=S-HnTfUUuAW_SLz8

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The Chicks - Goodbye Earl
Miranda Lambert - Gunpowder and Lead
Carrie Underwood - Two Black Cadillacs
Carrie Underwood - Blown Away (actually about her alcoholic father but still)

Also not a woman but Garth Brooks - The Thunder Rolls (Extended Version)

@bretthaines @ljrk @selzero Underwood’s “Church Bells” is about killing an abusive husband, so there’s that.

@selzero

Dixie Chick's "Goodbye Earl" is a domestic abuse freedom song.

https://youtu.be/Gw7gNf_9njs?si=S-HnTfUUuAW_SLz8

The Chicks - Goodbye Earl (Official Video)

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@Npars01 @selzero might be worth noting they dropped the “Dixie” part of the name :)
@Npars01 @selzero i'm still searching for kainen's cover of goodbye earl, it's glorious

@selzero Maybe I never paid much attention to the genre, but didn't male country music used to be losing your family one step at a time?

As the joke went, if you play country music backward, you get your car, your wife, your children, and your job back.

@wolf @selzero
I remember that joke! 😂
@wolf @selzero Don’t forget the dog.
@tombradleyjr @selzero The most important part of the relationship, indeed. Well, maybe except for your shotgun.
@wolf @selzero You only need one country song. From 2:00 (crap recording but this LP doesn't seem to feature much online). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fmbI4y0els
GRIMMS - ROCKIN’DUCK FULL ALBUM

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@TimWardCam @wolf @selzero Nah, the only country song you need is this.... https://youtu.be/s4pZFsEdP3Y?si=hpfPItj9vLib2YD7
You Never Even Called Me by My Name

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@dfrancis @wolf @selzero 🤣 Actually once upon a time a then-girlfriend did call me "darling" instead of by my name. Yes, we were in bed at the time.

"'Darling'? You once called some bloke by the wrong name, didn't you?" I accused.

She admitted it.

Here's my next contribution (but I'm warning you, after that comes Scrumpy and Western).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faF0wOsVucw

Kris Kristofferson • To Beat the Devil (1970)

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@wolf @selzero @TimWardCam i used to have a copy of that with a cover that became a duck hat 😀 Andy Roberts is probably the guitarist I have seen with the most bands over the years, great player !
@wolf @selzero Yeah, that, or alcoholism because of sorrow.
@selzero the same on "Why rappers claim there thugs and then complain there's ghetto in South Central", the answer is the question.

@Helgi

"There will never be any good schools in the "hood".

There will never be any cops that are any good.

The hospital is a great place to go to die.

Real estate is cheap, let me tell you why.

"The man" has a sure fire system.

An economic prison."

Ice T. Escape From The Killing Fields.

https://youtu.be/ByV7GQDbaE0?si=PxJGQmqZsnaMm1e_

Ice-T- Escape From The Killing Fields

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@selzero and it's downward spiral, it's hard to tell if middle class people moved out of South Central because of rampant crime and those violent BLM riots in the 1960s, or maybe the riots started because all the bad stuff was already there, like poverty, crime and violence and cops who shoot on sight.

@Helgi

CIA sold cocaine into that area to finance international activity.

The system kept the "drug war" criminalized to make sure those involved were criminals.

A whole area was systematically criminalised.

Today the opioid pandemic is much the same as the 80s cocaine pandemic, but is widespread, and so treated as a mental health issue, not a criminal issue.

Criminalisation of anyone with access to drugs is a political othering and oppression.

https://oig.justice.gov/sites/default/files/archive/special/9712/ch01p1.htm

CIA-Contra-Crack Cocaine Controversy

@selzero @Helgi I think you misspelled “whitespread”.
@selzero opiate addicts usually criminalize themselves because they need money to get a dose. They need it, by any means necessary. Including crime!

@Helgi that is a secondary thing.

The legal treatment of someone involved with drugs, criminalised or not, is a political decision.

@selzero no body no crime (#taylorswift feat. HAIM) https://youtu.be/IEPomqor2A8?si=DFDxpZhftFxqdOWX
Taylor Swift - no body, no crime (Official Lyric Video) ft. HAIM

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@selzero

I love #Casseroles. I make a mean lamb and banana bread ale (Tesco own).

.... Question is, as a female, do I have to shoot the casserole in order to sing about it?

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The Chicks - Goodbye Earl (Official Video)

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@selzero I read the image before the post, and was literally about to reply "seems like the answer is in the question"

@selzero "Why are there so few #1 hot airplay Country artists that are women, I never hear two back to back songs from female artists on the radio"

Recently learned that many stations are still using rules from the sixties on how to schedule programming (https://www.billboard.com/pro/country-radio-plays-women-artists-back-to-back-1-percent/)

Country Radio Still Playing the Same Old Song When It Comes to (Not) Playing Female Artists, Study Finds

Country radio plays women artists back-to-back less than 1% of the time, a new study has found.

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@selzero Martina McBride “Independence Day”
@selzero I'm pretty sure the answer is right there, in the lyrics.
@selzero Something about boots, walkin'... Pretty sure she sing all of that and didn't JUST leave.

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@selzero I tend to ask the question "country music. Why?"
@Ronnierobins if you play the songs backwards they are heartwarming tales of broken men that stop drinking, bring their wife / horse / dog back from the dead and heal themselves.
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"Girl, I like your style. Marry me so I can change you into something else"