Coal Miner's Daughter Analysis

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and it became a hit.
Lynn moved to Nashville, Tennessee to continue her career and signed with a new record company called Decca Records. After this her next big hit came called “Success” and success
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she had in the coming years with many great songs being recorded in the sixties. Lynn soon became best friends with Pasty Cline, another female country singer who helped Lynn navigate the music world. Cline would tragically die in a plane crash leaving Lynn heartbroken and lost with no one there to help her. Lynn songs were influenced by the world around her singing about the struggles of motherhood and wives in her songs “Blue Kentucky Girl” and “Wine, Women, and Song”. Lynn felt what every woman at the time was feeling and that was the suffocation of being stuck in a role and not being able to break out and accomplish what you want, but soon that would change. Lynn also wrote about the Vietnam War with her song “Dear Uncle Sam” she was not afraid to tackle issues of the period. In 1967 Lynn be the first to win Female Vocalist of the Year.
The song “Coal Miner’s Daughter” was the No. 1 hit in 1970 and was about Lynn’s experience growing up in a coal-mining town. Lynn managed to create controversy when she wrote about women’s sexuality with a song about the pill. That same …show more content…

This scene is small and fast, but without it Lynn would never feel like she could pursue her musical ability or the confidence to continue on with it. The scene starts with Lynn waking up and seeing The Grand Ole Opry where she will perform later in the night. She tells Mooney that they will not let her in and Mooney replies saying of they will because he bought donuts. It shifts to the evening and Lynn is about to perform when she tells Mooney she cannot go onstage because she feels she has no right to be there singing with artist who have paid their dues to be

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