The Queens of Rock and Country | Let’s Discuss This – July 10-11 Show

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Hey y’all! I want to discuss something that you may have thought of if you listened to the July 10-11 airing of the Queens of Rock and Country.

If you listened to the show, you may have noticed that I started the show with Maddie & Tae’s ‘Girl in a Country Song’ and I ended the show with Meghan Patrick’s ‘Bow Chicka Wow Wow’. When I introduced ‘Girl in a Country Song’ I noted that songs like this perfectly capture a huge reason why I wanted to start doing QoRC to begin with, and when I introduced ‘Bow Chicka Wow Wow’ I said that the song made me laugh.

If you DID notice this – you may have thought “How can you get upset about the way men talk about women in country songs and then think it’s funny when women do it to men?” And if you thought that, BRAVO! You’re paying attention.

First off, not necessarily upset about the way women are regarded in country music. But – I do think it’s very worth noting the way women are sexualized and degraded in many country songs while it happens to men in so few. What IS upsetting, is how women are sexualized and then SHAMED for expressing their sexuality on their own terms.

So if country songs can continue to depict women as nothing but cuties in short shorts sitting shot gun, than the women should feel empowered to express their own sexuality with songs about shirtless men tossing hay bales.

We are all deserving of equal respect. But also, you and me baby ain’t nothing but mammals.

-Kelsey