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

In accordance with a historical past of the trope printed by the Dialog, the diss observe dates again to the dwell rap battles of the Seventies, when the majority of hip-hop recordings have been taped at dwell occasions and sometimes featured two artists going face to face towards 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 not like a clap-back track, a diss observe is about an actual particular person or an actual scenario, and the particular person delivering it normally names names — or on the very least, makes it fairly clear what they’re speaking about.

Though nation artists have sometimes tended to maintain their lyrics form 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 might need created the very first-ever nation diss observe 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 checklist, 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.