BRANSON MO NEWS: If you tune in to a country radio station today, there’s a good chance you won’t hear one song about cheating. A quick scan of the current top 20 songs in the format reveals not one of them tackles the topic, but back in the ‘60s, ‘70s and ‘80s, country music was all about some cheating songs. Drinking songs were also popular back then as they are now, but the drinking often led to cheating in those tunes.
Country star Moe Bandy launched his career in the early ‘70s with the song “I Just Started Hated Cheatin’ Songs Today.”
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His duet with Janie Fricke, “It’s a Cheating Situation,” won ACM Song of the Year in 1979, and he scored his first solo No. 1 hit that same year with “I Cheated Me Right Out of You.”
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So, why have cheating songs gone out of style with country fans? Moe has a few thoughts on the matter that he recently shared with “Rolling Stone.” He thinks people are “more soft” than they used to be.
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Moe explains, “I don’t advocate cheating, of course, but it does go on. And that’s life. There have been so many great marriages that have been ruined because of the cheating. You gotta just sing about life, and that happens to be part of it.”
You shouldn’t assume all those cheating songs are autobiographical, though.
Moe adds, “People were telling me, ‘Golly, you’re doing a lot of cheating songs.’ I think they understood it was part of the business – like acting, doing the role.”
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