Rather than extol Loretta Lynn in ways she rejected, we should appreciate the agency with which she so impressively crafted her identity in country music:
added similar words of idolization, saying,"I'm so heartbroken to hear about Loretta's passing. She was so kind to me and she blazed so many trails for all of us girls in country music."
But for as much as Lynn is credited with opening doors for women, there is little evidence to suggest female artists have it any easier than they did at the singer's peak a half century ago. According to Jada Watson, assistant professor of Information Studies at University of Ottawa and the principal investigator at, when Lynn had her first hit on the Hot Country Songs chart in 1962, 13.7% of hits were recorded by women.
It has been nearly five decades since"The Pill" was released and Lynn was at the height of her country music career. Rather than extol her in ways she rejected, we should appreciate the agency with which she so impressively crafted a country persona through a combination of her songwriting, personal mythology and performance of this identity.
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