# Female country singers are great

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [October 11, 2014, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-country-singers-are-great/701019 "2014-10-11T02:38:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2014, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-country-singers-are-great/701019/1 "2014-10-11T02:38:07Z")

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The Pistol Annies cracked me up with this one:

[Hush Hush](http://youtu.be/OkvjhWirED8)

Of course, Miranda Lambert is a troublemaker:

[Only Prettier](http://youtu.be/8Pp66FNd54M)

[Kerosene](http://youtu.be/rB7ONnfIjaI)

Grethen Wilson is quite … fit:

[California Girls](http://youtu.be/Z6nygPJMNBU)

Ah, The Band Perry. I love Kim Perry so very very much. The first time I heard this song was on the radio, having never heard of this band before, and I honestly thought I was hearing, finally, a black female country singer. So I was really surprised when I looked up the song on YouTube and discovered she’s actually a blue-eyed, blonde, white girl:

[Hip to My Heart](http://youtu.be/4cTI0gEZ_gg)

[If I Die Young](http://youtu.be/7NJqUN9TClM) is still one of the best songs I’ve ever heard. Some great lyrics here:

“Lord make me a rainbow, I’ll shine down on my mother  
She’ll know I’m safe with you when she stands under my colors”

and

“A penny for my thoughts, oh, no, I’ll sell ‘em for a dollar  
They’re worth so much more after I’m a goner  
And maybe then you’ll hear the words I been singin’  
Funny when you’re dead how people start listenin’”

OTOH, if isn’t wasn’t strange enough to hear a gay man singing about how his molestation at the hands of his nanny turned him into a connoisseur of large female posteriors, how much more disturbing is it to hear Kim’s younger brother singing the song while his big sister shakes her gloriously plump bottom for the audience?

[Fat Bottomed Girls](http://youtu.be/yPK5NAzqf64)

Then there’s Jennifer Nettles of Sugarland:

[Stay](http://youtu.be/zPG1n1B0Ydw)

God, that song rips my heart out every time I listen to it. A “cheatin’ song” sung from the perspective of “the other woman”, that points out the fact that the real villain in that situation is the unfaithful husband.

Then there’s this collaboration she did with Bon Jovi:

[Who Says You Can’t Go Home](http://youtu.be/5CeX5VEo10c)

And I don’t know what it is about Ms. Nettles’ voice. I’ve listened to many fantastic, amazing female singers, but she is the sole female singer about whom I can say, “Her voice makes my dick hard.” It has nothing to do with her looks - she’s a damned good-looking woman, but totally not my type. It’s her voice. I suspect something about the resonance. Perhaps it’s telling that my sister absolutely _hates_ her voice.

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**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2014, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-country-singers-are-great/701019/2 "2014-10-11T05:29:57Z")

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Great links. Thanks!

Old Skool: [tammy wynette stand by your man - YouTube](http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DwBirf4BWew)