Nadine Hubbs

There are other songs by women that are country or country adjacent.

You know, in the, uh, Dolly's America podcast, Nadine Hubbs points out that there are not very many of those songs, though, that actually call out anyone by name.

So you think of, uh, Like When She Cheats by Carrie Underwood or even Fist City by Loretta Lynn, and, uh, You Ain't Woman Enough to Take My Man comes to mind too.

They don't name anyone.

We've become so accustomed to hearing, "I listen to anything but country music" to signal class and taste.

As Nadine Hubbs wrote in the book Rednecks, Queers, and Country Music, "Distance from country music can help to define one as a middle class individual, which is precisely a matter of distinguishing oneself from the taste, characteristics, and people of the working class masses.

It's a shorthand for liberal politics and a way to separate oneself from anything that could be associated with rural or Southern stereotypes."

Yeah.