A sick broken heart! Some of the greatest country music songs are about heartbreak, and the relationships that inspired them can be just as dramatic.
Shania Twain learned first hand that it’s hard to leave when her husband is 15 years old, Robert “Mutt” Langehad an affair with his former personal assistant, Marie Anne Thibautin May 2008. The couple broke up due to infidelity, and later the You’re Still The One singer put her pain into her music.
“If I’m really angry, I’ll say ‘f-k’ a lot. And if I write, this word will be in every line,” Twain said. The keeper in April 2018 on her writing process for 2017. Now. “There was one song I wrote about my cheating friend and it had a lot of bullshit in it. I hated her, so that’s the best word when you hate someone.”
The singer “Man, I feel like a woman” admitted: “I do very bad things to her in a dream. I always cut her hair or shave it off.” While Twain found love with Marie-Anne’s now ex-husband, Frederick thibaulther heartache from the affair was still evident in her writings.
“Found this in his closet / Right behind the lies / I wish I never saw it / Secret in his eyes / Poor, poor me,” sings the Canadian native. Now “Poor me.” “He never told me how long I lived in the dark / No one turned on the light / I fell and broke my heart.”
Kelsey Ballerini another artist who turned her pain into poetry after breaking up with her now ex-husband. Morgan Evansin August 2022
“And now you say you’re lost / And it’s lost to me,” Ballerini sings in the song “Blindside”, which was released in February 2023 in response to the Australian singer’s own breakup track. “Years of sitting across from me in therapy / I know the truth is hard to hear, but it wasn’t hard to find / Baby, were you blind or just blind?”
In “Penthouse,” the Tennessee native details her divorce from Evans, which ended in November 2022. She recalls the sale of their joint home: “It hurts to put shit in a box / And now we don’t talk / And it stings. roll up the welcome mat / Knowing you have half,” the text reads. “I kissed someone last night / But I don’t know where you sleep now, baby / We used to get along really well until I wanted to leave, now I know you hate me.”
Ahead of their divorce, Ballerini and Evans have resolved several “issues” in their marriage, an exclusive source said. Us weekly in March 2023, including their disagreement over having children.
“Their relationship has always been an emotional roller coaster,” the insider said. Us at the time, noting that the couple’s “intense romance” had periods of “friction, tension and toxicity”.
According to the source, the “Day Drunk” singer was “already ready” to be a father, but Ballerini wasn’t on the same wavelength. “They had issues with each other and found it hard to be kind to each other, but disagreements over kids were the nail in the coffin,” the insider shared.
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