471. "Goodbye Earl" The Dixie Chicks

"Goodbye Earl"
The Dixie Chicks
Fly
2000

So at one point this song was the most controversial thing about the Dixie Chicks.
(Which, of course, is bullshit. Each major American cultural medium had their own "Ooh, this is about a woman who kills an abusive man! This is controversial!" moment. TV with The Burning Bed, movies with Thelma and Louise, and pop music with "Goodbye Earl", spaced just about ten years apart from one another. I don't see this being an issue today, we have come a long way as a society. Why, no, I haven't heard of Chris Brown, tell me more.)
I'm generally not a fan of contemporary Nashville country music, other than the odd song or two that tickles my fancy (you know that one by Tim McGraw, or that other one by that other guy). But one day, before all the baloney about the Dixie Chicks being communisss traitors because the lead singer said something other people disagreed with, I was wasting a day in front of the TV and probably couldn't find the remote or something, because I ended up watching an hourlong Dixie Chicks special. And goddamn if I didn't love it.
I was charmed. They were charming.
And this song kicks a little bit of ass.