But there’s so much more to Maddie & Tae than the song that is either a feminist declaration, an echo of Janet Jackson’s rebuke “I’ve got a name, and it ain’t ‘Baby’,” or this year’s feel-good finger-wag to dumb boys. We were brought up to know how we should be treated.” “Boys, we love you, we want to look good, but it’s not all we’re good for,” Marlow cautions with a laugh. “You know, how does she feel wearing those cut-off shorts, sitting on the tailgate?” “We wanted to go at it from a girl’s perspective, and we wanted to put ourselves in the shoes of this girl,” says Dye. Still in the studio tracking overdubs for “Girl,” they signed their record deal before Dan Huff had even finished four sides on the sunshine’n’moxie pair. No one was more surprised than the natives of Sugar Land, Texas and Ada, Oklahoma. Even elevated cultural think-tank The Atlantic marveled, “Cheekily appropriating much of the sound of modern country, the two young women directly quote well-known bro-country lyrics and titles…” NPR’s “All Things Considered” cited Maddie & Tae for “turning heads in different ways with their very first single,” Rolling Stone cited them as one of “10 New Artists You Need to Know” and David Letterman couldn’t get the plucky duo to New York fast enough. Yet the response was so instant and intense, there was no denying it. Patricks Day and wrote “Girl In A Country Song.” Merely expressing their own reaction to the reductive tilt of today’s BroCountry, the pair and co-writer Aaron Schwerz shamelessly skewered its Xeroxed stereotypes “Girl” was as much a lark as it was ever “meaningful social commentary.”
Maddie Marlow and Taylor Dye never intended to hit a nerve when they sat down on St.
Following the closure of Dot, they signed to Mercury Nashville in 2018 and announced the release of a second album, “The Way It Feels”, on April 10, 2020. Their debut album, “Start Here”, was released on August 28, 2015, and includes the singles "Girl in a Country Song", "Fly", "Shut Up and Fish", and "Sierra". The duo was signed to the revived Dot Records in 2014. Maddie & Tae are an American female country music duo composed of Maddie Marlow and Tae Dye, both of whom are singers, songwriters, and guitarists.
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