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Post by Andy on Sept 27, 2015 20:57:39 GMT -5
Basically, any song with a twist or surprise, usually towards the end of the song and often the final line. Bonus points if it made you say "holy [expletive]!" the first time you heard it.
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Brooks and Dunn - Indian Summer Chris Stapleton - Daddy Doesn't Pray Anymore Dolly Parton - Down From Dover Garth Brooks - I Don't Have to Wonder George Jones - He Stopped Loving Her Today George Jones - Radio Lover Vern Gosdin - The Number
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Post by sabre14 on Sept 27, 2015 21:32:43 GMT -5
James Wesley - "Jackson Hole" Randy Travis - "Three Wooden Crosses" Gary Allan - "He Can't Quite Her"
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Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2015 21:33:21 GMT -5
Eric Paslay- "She Don't Love You" (we find out at the end that the narrator wronged the woman he is singing about, which is why she's so broken inside)
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Post by someguy on Sept 27, 2015 21:46:35 GMT -5
Reba McEntire - "The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia" Joan Kennedy - "A Dozen Red Roses"
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Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2015 21:54:28 GMT -5
Miranda Lambert- White Liar Blake Shelton- The Baby (not really a "plot twist" but that ending is so powerful)
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Post by bboat11 on Sept 27, 2015 23:04:58 GMT -5
Reba McEntire - He Wants To Get Married (The first time I heard this I was so confused because the lyrics are so happy but the song sounds so flipping sad! Then the end came. Perfection.)
George Strait - The Chair (Never before has a slew of cheesy pickup lines worked so well. And the ending is the icing on the cake, when the narrator confesses that the whole "chair" thing was just an excuse to talk to her. :) )
Edit to include: Tracy Lawrence - If I Don't Make It Back (Not really a plot twist, but definitely a confirmation of events that you spend the entirety of the song hoping will NOT happen...)
Reba McEntire ft. Faith Hill - Sleeping With The Telephone (I always interpreted the last line of this song to mean that the narrator's husband was killed in the war... I mean, it could also just be the telephone ringing randomly, but why would that be significant enough to be the ending of the song? She spends the whole song hoping the telephone WON'T ring, so when it does I can only assume it is her worst fears coming true.)
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Post by Ten Pound Hammer on Sept 27, 2015 23:21:16 GMT -5
"One Last Time" by Dusty Drake sounds like it's just a breakup song until you get to the line about the pilot trying to pull the plane out of the dive, one… last… [song ends]. Good GOD did that hit me the first few times.
The "breakup that's actually death" trope also shows up in "Over You" by Miranda Lambert and "Probably Wouldn't Be This Way" by LeAnn Rimes.
Similarly, "Me and Emily" does not reveal until the bridge that the narrator and Emily are in a car because they're escaping an abusive husband.
An obscure one I thought of is "Forget Me Not" by Steve Wariner. An old man has an old book on a shelf, with some forget-me-nots pressed between the pages. He promises that he will continue to love his former lover as long as the forget-me-nots stay blue, which they have for 50 years. At the end, it's revealed that he picks fresh forget-me-nots every morning to put in the pages.
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Post by Andy on Sept 28, 2015 7:15:18 GMT -5
Great examples, everyone. A few of these I haven't heard yet and will definitely check out. Just thought of another one, and gonna try out the spoiler tag. Blaine Larsen or Mark Chesnutt - I'm in Love With a Married Woman {Spoiler}The first verse suggests that the narrator is having an affair with a married woman, but the last line of the chorus reveals that the married woman he's in love with is his wife - she's married to him.
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Post by The Brazilian Guy 🇧🇷 on Sept 28, 2015 7:54:50 GMT -5
Keith Urban - Stupid Boy
The line towards the end, when he reveals himself as the stupid boy ("I'm the same old, same old stupid boy"), is not only a great twist on the song but makes the message in it even stronger
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Post by fe_lipeoliveira on Sept 28, 2015 7:58:30 GMT -5
Stupid Boy, by Sarah Buxton. In the Keith Urban version, we find out later that HE is the stupid boy.
EDIT: Oh well, I hadn't seen the post above mine when I began to type, it wasn't there lol
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Post by josh on Sept 28, 2015 8:05:22 GMT -5
Loretta-Van Lear Rose
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Post by fe_lipeoliveira on Sept 28, 2015 8:37:08 GMT -5
Blake Shelton - Mine Would Be You
Ashley Monroe - Two Weeks Late (can we consider it a plot twist or just a word play?)
Julie Roberts - All I Want Is You (same case as Probably Wouldn't Be This Way and the others mentioned by tenpoundhammer)
Trisha Yearwood/Rebecca Lynn Howard - Melancholy Blue (same as above)
Lori McKenna - Drinkin' Problem
Mindy McCready - Maybe He'll Notice Her Now (classic!)
Lee Ann Womack - Why They Call It Falling
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Post by Kanenrá:ke on Sept 28, 2015 13:01:42 GMT -5
This has always been one of my favorites!
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Post by .indulgecountry on Sept 28, 2015 14:49:22 GMT -5
Craig Morgan - The Ballad of Mr. Jenkins
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Post by liza on Sept 28, 2015 14:53:13 GMT -5
Tim McGraw - Good Girls
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Post by fe_lipeoliveira on Sept 28, 2015 18:29:09 GMT -5
Oh, seeing Bobbie Cryner's song made me remind of You Don't Even Know Who I Am, by Patty Loveless! It's one of my all time favorite songs, I can't believe I'd forgotten it.
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Post by someguy on Sept 28, 2015 18:29:38 GMT -5
This has always been one of my favorites! Fantastic song. I'm much more familiar with Lorrie Morgan's version, but Bobbie's is excellent too.
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Post by bboat11 on Sept 28, 2015 18:56:09 GMT -5
I just remembered Martina has some really shocking plot twists.
A Broken Wing - At first the song just goes on about how emotionally abusive the husband is. But things really heat up in the second verse when the wife doesn't leave for church, which is really weird because the female character obviously has a strong faith. So then he runs upstairs to check on her and finds a note by the window with the curtains blowing in the breeze... That was one of those instant-goosebump moments for me. And it brings up so many questions. Did she jump to her death???? Did she escape through the window and run away???? Did she turn into an angel and fly away???? What's the deal?!
Independence Day - A song about domestic violence is one thing, but it is something else entirely when the victim decides to burn the house down with herself and her abusive husband in it, all under the pretense of freeing herself from him... What a shocking twist, especially in the music video.
Concrete Angel - Another example of abuse taken to the extreme. The song was sad enough to begin with, but by the time the girl dies because the neighbors did nothing while she was beat mercilessly by her parents, it takes on a whole new level of sadness... I think I was just surprised that the song actually went that far when I first heard it.
None of these plot twists really happen at the end of the song, but they are indeed masterful plot twists that should not be forgotten.
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Post by sabre14 on Sept 28, 2015 18:58:06 GMT -5
Steve Azar - "Waitin' On Joe"
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Post by Andy on Sept 28, 2015 19:46:31 GMT -5
This has always been one of my favorites! Fantastic song. Thanks so much for posting. She's a name that's been on my radar for years that I've never gotten around to listening to for some reason. I'm definitely going to change that ASAP.
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Post by .indulgecountry on Sept 28, 2015 20:18:31 GMT -5
I just remembered Martina has some really shocking plot twists. A Broken Wing - At first the song just goes on about how emotionally abusive the husband is. But things really heat up in the second verse when the wife doesn't leave for church, which is really weird because the female character obviously has a strong faith. So then he runs upstairs to check on her and finds a note by the window with the curtains blowing in the breeze... That was one of those instant-goosebump moments for me. And it brings up so many questions. Did she jump to her death???? Did she escape through the window and run away???? Did she turn into an angel and fly away???? What's the deal?! Independence Day - A song about domestic violence is one thing, but it is something else entirely when the victim decides to burn the house down with herself and her abusive husband in it, all under the pretense of freeing herself from him... What a shocking twist, especially in the music video. Concrete Angel - Another example of abuse taken to the extreme. The song was sad enough to begin with, but by the time the girl dies because the neighbors did nothing while she was beat mercilessly by her parents, it takes on a whole new level of sadness... I think I was just surprised that the song actually went that far when I first heard it. None of these plot twists really happen at the end of the song, but they are indeed masterful plot twists that should not be forgotten. These made me remember another one: "Alyssa Lies" - Jason Michael Carroll I listened to that the other day for the first time in awhile and omg it still hit me hard. :'(
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Post by zjames on Sept 28, 2015 21:27:16 GMT -5
"The Chain Of Love" - Clay Walker
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Post by Andy on Sept 28, 2015 22:02:35 GMT -5
"Statue of a Fool" by Jack Greene and "Life Turned Her That Way" by Mel Tillis/Ricky Van Shelton both do the "narrator turns out to play a role in the song" version that "Indian Summer" did.
"Highway 17" by Rodney Crowell is an excellent story song with a great ending.
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Post by House Lannister on Sept 28, 2015 22:15:10 GMT -5
I just remembered Martina has some really shocking plot twists. A Broken Wing - At first the song just goes on about how emotionally abusive the husband is. But things really heat up in the second verse when the wife doesn't leave for church, which is really weird because the female character obviously has a strong faith. So then he runs upstairs to check on her and finds a note by the window with the curtains blowing in the breeze... That was one of those instant-goosebump moments for me. And it brings up so many questions. Did she jump to her death???? Did she escape through the window and run away???? Did she turn into an angel and fly away???? What's the deal?! Independence Day - A song about domestic violence is one thing, but it is something else entirely when the victim decides to burn the house down with herself and her abusive husband in it, all under the pretense of freeing herself from him... What a shocking twist, especially in the music video. Concrete Angel - Another example of abuse taken to the extreme. The song was sad enough to begin with, but by the time the girl dies because the neighbors did nothing while she was beat mercilessly by her parents, it takes on a whole new level of sadness... I think I was just surprised that the song actually went that far when I first heard it. None of these plot twists really happen at the end of the song, but they are indeed masterful plot twists that should not be forgotten. Whoa, this is the first I'm learning of Independence Day. I presumed that she killed him and ended up getting thrown in prison. :'( On a bit lighter note, Last Name with Carrie Underwood {Spoiler} The Whole song is about her partying with some guy she didn't know. But it turns out the next day she wakes up married. Now she doesn't know HER last name.
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Post by bboat11 on Sept 28, 2015 22:29:43 GMT -5
I just remembered Martina has some really shocking plot twists. A Broken Wing - At first the song just goes on about how emotionally abusive the husband is. But things really heat up in the second verse when the wife doesn't leave for church, which is really weird because the female character obviously has a strong faith. So then he runs upstairs to check on her and finds a note by the window with the curtains blowing in the breeze... That was one of those instant-goosebump moments for me. And it brings up so many questions. Did she jump to her death???? Did she escape through the window and run away???? Did she turn into an angel and fly away???? What's the deal?! Independence Day - A song about domestic violence is one thing, but it is something else entirely when the victim decides to burn the house down with herself and her abusive husband in it, all under the pretense of freeing herself from him... What a shocking twist, especially in the music video. Concrete Angel - Another example of abuse taken to the extreme. The song was sad enough to begin with, but by the time the girl dies because the neighbors did nothing while she was beat mercilessly by her parents, it takes on a whole new level of sadness... I think I was just surprised that the song actually went that far when I first heard it. None of these plot twists really happen at the end of the song, but they are indeed masterful plot twists that should not be forgotten. Whoa, this is the first I'm learning of Independence Day. I presumed that she killed him and ended up getting thrown in prison. :'( It is definitely ambiguous what happens to the mother. Martina swears that the mother in the song does not die. She has made that perfectly clear in a few interviews when people have asked about it through the years. Which would probably mean that prison is her logical fate. But I personally have always imagined that they both died in the fire. I guess the line about the daughter being sent to the county home made me think that she had to be sent away because both her parents were dead, but I guess now that I think about it she would have to be sent to a county home anyway if her mom was put away for murder... So I guess there are no right answers! Haha Martina is just the interpreter of the song, so I have always taken her statement about the mother surviving as just another opinion rather than the final answer. If Gretchen Peters ever says what she intended when she wrote it, I suppose then we will know for sure :) Either way, it is brutally morbid... Yet so well done...
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Post by House Lannister on Sept 28, 2015 22:31:32 GMT -5
Whoa, this is the first I'm learning of Independence Day. I presumed that she killed him and ended up getting thrown in prison. :'( It is definitely ambiguous what happens to the mother. Martina swears that the mother in the song does not die. She has made that perfectly clear in a few interviews when people have asked about it through the years. Which would probably mean that prison is her logical fate. But I personally have always imagined that they both died in the fire. I guess the line about the daughter being sent to the county home made me think that she had to be sent away because both her parents were dead, but I guess now that I think about it she would have to be sent to a county home anyway if her mom was put away for murder... So I guess there are no right answers! Haha Martina is just the interpreter of the song, so I have always taken her statement about the mother surviving as just another opinion rather than the final answer. If Gretchen Peters ever says what she intended when she wrote it, I suppose then we will know for sure :) Either way, it is brutally morbid... Yet so well done... Thanks for clarifying that. And I do agree that it's well done.
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Post by ramtini on Sept 29, 2015 4:15:27 GMT -5
George Jones - The Visit
it has a nice twist at the end
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Post by Todd on Sept 29, 2015 12:04:46 GMT -5
CW McCall - "Roses For Mama"
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Post by fe_lipeoliveira on Oct 6, 2015 23:38:34 GMT -5
Jennifer Nettles - His Hands
Mandy Moore - Can't You Just Adore Her?
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Post by jaseboyhyde on Oct 7, 2015 18:51:10 GMT -5
The little girl - John Michael Montgomery
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