Maddie and Tae top charts with 'Girl in a Country Song' mocking macho bro-country videos

Pair say they respect the male artists they poke fun at

Maddie and Tae top country charts with anti bro-country songs (Getty Images)

Many of the women who appear in the videos of country music songs are not exactly dressed for farm work.

Indeed, an entire sub-genre – so-called bro-country – has developed around songs that celebrate scantily-dressed, lean-limbed ladies.

So there was no small celebration this week among those opposed to such a presentation of women when a song that mocked these macho videos topped the charts. Maddie and Tae’s Girl in a Country Song ranked number one on both the Billboard and Mediabase country airplay charts.

“Well I wish I had some shoes on my two bare feet,” says the song by the young women, whose full names are Madison Marlow and Taylor Dye. “And it’s getting kinda cold in these painted on, cut-off jeans. I hate the way this bikini top chafes. Do I really have to wear it all day?”

The chorus of he song, initially released this summer by the newcomers, continues: “How in the world did it go so wrong? We used to get a little respect. Now we’re lucky if we even get to climb in your truck, keep our mouth shut and ride along.”

The song, which mocks the outfits clothes women wear in such videos by dressing men in the same outfits, immediately created am instant buzz among a certain section of country fans.

Yet as the Washington Post reports, many of the male stars who the duo poke fun at in their song, have not appreciated their success.

When asked about the Maddie and Tae song, Brian Kelley of the bro-country act Florida Georgia Line, told an interviewer: “All I am going to say about that is, I don't know one girl who doesn’t want to be a girl in a country song. That’s all I'm going to say to you. That’s it.”

The two women have said are only gently mocking their male counterparts. “We respect all the guys we’re poking fun at, we’re just giving the woman a voice in these songs,” Ms Dye said this summer.

Yet their track is in sharp contrast so some of the songs being produced by other women country artists. At around the same time as Maddie and Tae’s mocking Girl in a Country Song came out, Maggie Rose, an artist from Nashville, released with an apparently straight face her Girl in Your Truck Song.

“Friday night I’m getting ready, call you up so come and get me,” the song begins. “Got my jeans on tight, I’m feeling sexy. Tonight. Tonight.”

There has not yet been any comment from the pair about their chart-topping success. On Wednesday evening the pair played at the Club Rodeo bar in Wichita, Kansas. “Wichita KS, tonight was magical,” they posted on social media. “We love y’all!”