Her sharp and snarky twang championed working class women and promoted birth control. Later in life, she supported Donald Trump.
“The Pill,” for those lucky enough to still get to hear it for the first time, is about a married woman’s defiant decision to go on birth control and take back some control in her marriage and life. “All these years I’ve stayed at home/ While you had all your fun/ And every year that’s gone by/ Another baby’s come,” she sings, alerting the husband in her song that she’s done being pregnant, that she’s “makin’ up for all those years/ Since I’ve got the pill.
Lynn daring to sing about wanting to not be pregnant for one single year sent the industry into a tailspin. Despite being released a full 15 years after the FDA approved the use of birth control, Lynn’s label was nervous that country music audiences were not ready to hear a woman singing about her bodily autonomy. They were partially right. Country music gatekeepers, almost all men at the time, couldn’t stomach a little song about a little pill.
Of course, her pride in that accomplishment plainly clashes with her later affiliation with the GOP, a party morbidly dedicated to spreading disinformation about women’s reproductive rights and access. While not to be celebrated, Lynn once again nailed a fundamental truth about a lot of women: We’re full of messy contradictions, and our actions don’t always align with the self-mythologies we’ve created in our heads.
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