Ahead Of Her Return, Carrie Underwood's 'Cry Pretty' Does Some Heavy Lifting
One of country music's best voices delivers a subtly feminist statement on the double standards of grief and presentation.
The most heart-wrenching country songs employ metaphor like a splash of cold water. They wake you up with a shock; blinking, you see the world just a little bit differently.
Consider "" as sung by George Jones, or Lee Brice's "." In both songs, symbols of status and comfort become sites of grief's rituals: the empty house where an abandoned husband
