Whether you’re into country music or not, you can’t deny the evolution of the lyrics. Many of these have inspired me since I’ve taken the leap to end my marriage…
I remember being a kid and listening to Dolly tell us about working 9 to 5 and “want(ing) to get ahead, but the boss won’t seem to let me” and that she swears “sometimes that man is out to get me”. We took it for granted that the boss was a man…didn’t question it.
Shania wanted to “Get a little out of line” and “ be free and feel the way I feel”. She was getting us started I think!
Today, it blows my mind how female country singers are making a statement! Kelsea Ballerini made me realize a few things out of my own life when she said: “ I retired my red lipstick cause you said you didn’t like it”. How many of us will change our ways to please? Don’t misunderstand me, compromise is important and one of the keys to a successful relationship, but there’s a difference between changing and disappearing! The one that hits home for me is when she sings: “ Forgot I had dreams, forgot I had wings. Forgot who I was before I ever kissed you. - But I miss me more!”. It was quite a revelation when I heard her words.
Maren Morris is talking to women as a group. She tells us to: “pick yourself up off the kitchen floor”. Which I read to mean kick yourself in the butt and do what you need to do; don’t wait for a man to rescue you!
However, where she is talking to the all woman, married, single, young, old, rich or poor, is when she says: “Draw comparisons, trying to find a lesser than, I don’t wanna wear your crown, there’s enough to go around.” She is telling us to hold together and support each other, and let go of the bitching and comparing! We are so much stronger together, there is enough love, passion and success to go around…and WE KNOW THAT!
Runaway June is telling us she can buy her own drinks and pay her own tab, and when the lights go on, she can pay your own cab. She says: “ I don’t need nobody else”. That’s an amazing feeling! Because when we know we don’t need “nobody else” we are in the perfect place to meet somebody else and make sure we NEVER miss me more;).