Admittedly, I’m not a big country/western fan, but every so often—somewhere on the dial between KROQ in the morning and JACK in the afternoon—I’ll hear something in that genre that I like. I found Carrie Underwood’s vindictive, post-love song, “Before He Cheats,” fit nicely into that category. It’s an extremely popular song about a gal who takes revenge on a guy’s truck because he’s cheating on her. Anyway, that’s what I thought it was about, until I listened a little more closely. Hold your horses, Cowgirl! You just sang:
“Right now he’s probably slow dancing
With a bleached-blond tramp
And she’s probably getting frisky.”
Probably? Is or isn’t there another woman? To make sure I hadn’t missed some key element in the song, I went on-line to www.music.aol.com/lyrics and checked out the exact wording by songwriters Chris Tompkins and Josh Kear. And there it is in (...)
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