16 Brutal Nation Music Diss Tracks

The nation music neighborhood is not typically related to diss tracks.

In line with a historical past of the trope revealed by the Dialog, the diss monitor dates again to the reside rap battles of the Seventies, when the majority of hip-hop recordings have been taped at reside occasions and infrequently featured two artists going face to face in opposition to one another.

In nation music, clap-back songs — narrative-driven anthems of revenge or scorn — are extra prevalent. These have been a staple of the nation format ever since its early days: Loretta Lynn‘s “You Ain’t Girl Sufficient,” Miranda Lambert‘s “Kerosene” and Carrie Underwood‘s “Earlier than He Cheats” are all nice examples.

However in contrast to a clap-back music, a diss monitor is about an actual particular person or an actual state of affairs, and the particular person delivering it often names names — or on the very least, makes it fairly clear what they’re speaking about.

Regardless that nation artists have usually tended to maintain their lyrics type of imprecise, there are nonetheless loads of nice songs that qualify as diss tracks, and a few of them have been round for fairly some time. Kitty Wells may need created the very first-ever nation diss monitor in in 1952 when she launched “It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels,” a direct response to Hank Thompson’s “The Wilder Facet of Life.”

On this record, Style of Nation rounds up 16 nice nation songs that spill the tea. Kacey Musgraves, Carly Pearce and Kelsea Ballerini have all launched songs geared toward an ex-husband, whereas different artists, like Hank Williams III, Alan Jackson and George Strait all dropped diss tracks geared toward nation music itself.

There’s even one nation artists who’s been the goal of not one however two totally different diss tracks, sung by utterly totally different folks.