Keith Urban, "Female"
Since it's Christmas Eve (aka the anniversary of Mary's labor day), I thought I'd go with a song that has "Virgin Mary/ Scarlet Letter" right in the chorus--which is as close as you can get to saying "Madonna-Whore Complex" if you still want your song to be played on Country radio stations.
This song has received a lot of critical derision for being awkwardly sincere and for being "woke" but somehow not quite being "woke" in the correct way. ("Female" is apparently now on the list of verboten words, since MRAs use it too). But I think that if Country music is good at one thing, it's being awkwardly sincere, and this song helps deliver an (admittedly mild) feminist message to the audiences who most need to hear it. Plus, I love the subtle shading of Beyonce's vapid female empowerment anthems: "When you hear a song that they play saying you run the world/ Do you believe it? / Will you live to see it?"
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