Her dresses may have been old-fashioned, but her songs were ahead of their time.
Lynn’s distinctive wardrobe – long, grandmotherly gowns, often lace-adorned and sometimes glittery – appeared backward to many, much like her ultra-rural diction. Who else could say, “I was But the surface conservatism in her appearance contradicted the progressivism at the heart of her songs, which were extensions of Lynn’s own character and humanity.
chart in 1952 with “It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels,” presenting herself visually as a non-threatening homemaker. Patsy Cline, who became Lynn’s best friend in the early 1960s, infused her breakthrough recordings with a smooth vocal style and sometimes-heavenly strings, hiding her crude tongue and bawdiness – hallmarks of so-called un-lady-like behavior – from the public until after her death.
Those titles established her progressive nature. Having become the breadwinner in her house, Lynn essentially demanded equal treatment and respect in advance of the women’s movement, though – judging from her lifelong devotion to her husband – she seemed to accept that men would have a difficult time granting that sort of consideration.
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