@avclub-16db446cafb1ffb1466e71eaf97a4f49:disqus , you gotta throw some anti-immigrant sentiment in there too, even (especially?) when your last name ends with -ski, -wicz, -z, or a vowel.

The minds that brought us Kids in the Hall, Trailer Park Boys, and Corner Gas.  And those "TCB" guys.  All that just to counter balance the suckitude of Bryan Adams.

But a big part of the song is that this woman wasn't really an adult when she made those vows in the first place.  It's not really a song celebrating a woman leaving her husband; it's more of a cautionary tale about how getting married too young will trap you in a numbed hell of emptiness and depression that will…

It's at least realistic, and that counts for something.  And just because a song describes a certain scenario or mindset doesn't mean that it is presenting it as a model for everyone to follow.  Anyway, real couples split up for this kind of reason all the time.  People outside the relationship might wonder, "Well, if…

I dunno.  Wherever all our singers come from, I guess.

The @avclub-08ae6a26b7cb089ea588e94aed36bd15:disqus may not be speaking ex cathedra on this issue, but I recognize his supreme teaching authority.

Two Guys and a Girl.

Not as cinematic, though.

That already sounds better than most TV mysteries, and every Richard Gere movie.

Three Men and a Missing/Exploited Baby.

Don't forget spending too much time at the corner bar.  And belching.  It's amazing how much of my day is taken up with belching.

That is an excellent way of putting it, f&s.

@persia2:disqus , the difference is that that song announces its intentions, and is an obvious satire.  I was hoping the same was true when I heard "What This World Needs Is a Few More Rednecks."  If only it were so.

Didn't she write or sing "Shut Up and Kiss Me"?  I always liked that one.

I always liked her, too.  She was a cut above the normal singer-songwriters of the time — and therefore waaaaaaay above those of today.  I think it helped that she just really looked like a country singer.  Yeah, she's blonde, but she doesn't look totally glamorous — like there would always be a limit to how pretty…

I've always said that marriage should be harder to do in this country.  People get married for all kinds of stupid reasons, and most people don't even know well enough what they want out of their own lives, to say nothing about how to also try to make someone else happy.  If a marriage were something you actually had…

Yep, 11 years (on Saturday!) with Malinger-Her, but I second.  We're both different people today than we were when we got married, to say nothing of when we met in 1994.  But we've grown and changed alongside one another.  I'll say this: we're both funnier now — or at least make each other laugh more now — than ever…

I can actually hear that in Alan Jackson's voice.

Don't forget a soldier and/or the American flag.

There are some novelists who love writing books in which the main character is a novelist.  Somehow, I find those to be worse than what you're describing in hip-hop, because at least rappers tend to engage in a knowing braggadocio, while the novelists I mention tend to take themselves and what they're doing very…