In 2000, two hits from totally different genres got revenge against abusers — and provoked tellingly different reactions
,” two songs that were both in heavy radio rotation in early 2000. Subject matter aside, the tracks could hardly have existed in more disparate corners of the pop music scene. The Dixie Chicks were already reviving a slumping country music market almost single-handedly, by selling more records than any country group in history to that point.
Those similarities, though, didn’t extend to the way the songs were received: while both were popular, only “Earl” prompted public consternation -- which proved convenient for the song, from a sales and publicity perspective. In retrospect, it’s a response that appears to have less to do with its content and more to do with who was singing it., was initially released in mid-1999, but received a full promotional push after the album entered the Billboard 200 at no.
Eve had done her best to translate that raw emotion into the song via its explicit, anguished lyrics, as well as its Dave Meyers-directed music video -- which depicts a man attacking a woman repeatedly in front of their children, and the eventual deaths of both parents. On her album, the track is preceded by the unflinching “BM” skit, in which hitting and screaming and crying sounds are reproduced to frightening effect.
The only real concerns about the song’s bloody end came in the context of broader, implicitly racist questions about the impact of real-life and fictional violence in rap music. “For example, the Eve record ‘Love Is Blind’ had a really positive message -- until the end,” a Dayton radio programmerfor a piece on that topic. “She shoots the guy.
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