Two Doors Down

... there's two more songs I'm just gonna mention.

Um, Two Doors Down, I think that's great song.

Absolutely love Two Doors Down.

I even like [laughs] and I know people love to rag on her rock album a little bit, and I'll say maybe they have a point with a lot of those, but she does a reggae version of Two Doors Down-

Yes

... that I freaking love as well.

Yes.

Yeah, I freaking love [laughs] that.

Kinda hard to argue with that.

It's easy to take Two Doors Down for granted as another upbeat country pop crossover hit, which it is.

However, let's think about this.

In 1977, it is five, count them, five years after the Supreme Court ruled that unmarried people, and let's be real, they meant women, could legally get birth control.

Yet, for heterosexual men, who were we thinking that they were having sex with? You were not a good girl if that woman was you.

So this is another example of the 1970s living with some new legislation, and with it, a new outlook, a new way of viewing women and their right to have sex with any consenting adult that they wanted to, and to also try to avoid an unwanted pregnancy.

Now, along comes Dolly five years later, writing a song clearly from a woman's perspective about getting through a breakup by moseying two doors down to a party and picking up some other guy.

Here are the lyrics.

My son even knows that song.

Two Doors Down.

Oh, Two Doors Down?

Mm-hmm.

We played that originally 'cause somebody asked us that on, on the day that we were honoring Dolly after she passed.

So yeah, it is a song that has lasted multiple generations and continues to be successful even in an era where music in and of itself May not be so, but that's another discussion for another day.

In 1977, Dolly would truly cross over onto the pop charts with the songs Here You Come Again and Two Doors Down, both of which hit the top 20, the former of the two peaking at number three.

Three years later, she finally hit number one on the Hot 100 with the title track to the soundtrack of 9 to 5, a movie that she co-starred in with Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda.

That's right, she added an acting career in the middle of all this, starring in additional movies throughout the 1980s such as The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Rhinestone, and Steel Magnolias.

And we're going to keep that lighter energy going because there's another Dolly song on my list that's almost impossible for me to hear without wanting to have a little fun.

And that one is Two Doors Down.

Dolly wrote this song for her 1977 album Here You Come Again.

She later re-recorded it with a more pop-oriented sound, and that version became a crossover hit in 1978. reaching the country top 20 and the top 20 on the Billboard Hot 100.

What I love about the story in this song is how quickly the mood changes.

It starts with someone sitting alone and feeling sorry for herself while there's a party happening just two doors down.

But instead of staying home and being miserable, she decides to get up, join the party, and things start looking a whole lot better.

It's such a simple story, but there's a little bit of dolly wisdom hidden in there too.

And I've always loved this song.

And it's Two Doors Down.

That's a great song.

I mean, they're laughing

and

having a party two doors down.

And, you know, later on in the song, I'm going to get myself together.

And my next one is from 1975, written by Dolly, and she described it as her talk with God.