This album has such a pretty pretty cover. I love how everything is black and white with just baby pink. So pretty. The lovely and beautiful Miranda Lambert sings on this album. I saw her speaking on body image after she won at the CMA's and I really liked it. Personally I don't think she is a "bigger girl", she just looks normal to me, but growing up in the 80's I remember size 6 being the tiny size and there was no size 0. So i think its very ridiculous that size 8 is considered a plus size now and what media says is plus now I think is just a normal women's body. We have curves! And I don't know many ladies who are a size 0 to 4. Today's sizing is bonkers.
Any hoo, since there is this great new album out for Loretta, lets just remeber how she was one of the "fore-mother's" of women in country music in and had the guts to write bluntly and sassy about everyday ladies in a time when that was unheard of. According to Wikipedia, she possibly had more banned songs than any other artist in the history of country music, including "Rated X," about the double standards divorced women face, "Wings Upon Your Horns," about the loss of teenage virginity, and "The Pill," lyrics by T. D. Bayless, about a wife and mother becoming liberated via the birth control pill. Her song "Dear Uncle Sam," released in 1966 during the Vietnam War, describes a wife's anguish at the loss of a husband to war.
I didn't love this album so much, but I do super love Loretta Lynn. On the high side, I loved The White Stripes, and Paramore didn't stink at all. On the low side...I hate Kid Rock and Sheryl Crow. I passed it on to my little sister and her husband who love, love, love it and especially are fond of the Alan Jackson song.
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