Carrie Underwood, 23, former American Idol winner, has been making quite a name for herself. Her debut album, Some Hearts, has been getting a lot of buzz. After taking home two Grammys, one for best female country vocalist and for her No. 1 song “Jesus take the wheel” she showed the world that she is not going to be an Idol has been. 
“Before her Cheats” is Underwood’s latest single and it leaves quite a message. As Underwood sings, she explains how her man is cheating on her with other woman as she speaks and he has no clue that Underwood is getting revenge while he is enjoying his night out on the town.
Right as the song starts, it becomes aggressive with a raging guitar, cymbals, drums, and everything a country song is. Underwood’s soft country twang voice comes out a little rougher in this song. She goes explaining what her man is probably doing with another woman as she speaks. The song takes an aggressive tone in the hook as she explains how she is destroying his precious 4-wheel drive to teach him a lesson.
With lyrics like… “I dug my key into the side of his pretty little suped up 4 wheel drive, carved my name into his leather seat... I took a Louisville slugger to both headlights, slashed a hole in all 4 tires...” he will get the picture not to cheat on this pretty little country girl again. The moral conveyed in this rocked out country song… think before you cheat on a woman because you don’t know what she is capable of.
Janelle Landauer, from Country Music Online said, “On ‘Before He Cheats,’ you find a more rough tone to Underwood's range, but it works for this song particularly. What a perfect way to share in the joy of sweet revenge than with a sassy, fun song like this one.”
The video for “Before he cheats” goes right along with the lyrics of the song. The opening scene is a hand keying the door of a beautifully red-coated automobile. Through out the video you see Underwood destroying a truck and a man kissing a woman in a bar. One of the last scenes is Underwood giving the key to the man in the bar with the girl. It is clear at that point that he got caught and punished by Ms. Underwood.
This is great catchy song, but I must say as a young woman like Underwood… I think this could be a bad message to send. You can go to jail for destroying someone property and being that she was an American Idol… I’m not sure if that’s good behavior. With that note of caution aside, Underwood is staking her claim in the music industry and I am looking forward to her sophomore album.
The Lyrics
VERSE 1Right now he's probably slow dancing with a bleached-blond tramp, and she's probably getting frisky... right now, he's probably buying her some fruity little drink cause she can't shoot whiskey... Right now, he's probably up behind her with a pool-stick, showing her how to shoot a combo...
{Hook}And he don't know... That I dug my key into the side of his pretty little suped up 4 wheel drive, carved my name into his leather seat... I took a Louisville slugger to both head lights, slashed a hole in all 4 tires... And maybe next time he'll think before he cheats.
VERSE 2Right now, she's probably up singing some white-trash version of Shania karoke.. Right now, she's probably saying "I'm drunk" and he's a thinking that he's gonna lucky, Right now, he's probably dabbing 3 dollars worth of that bathroom Polo...
{Hook}And he don't know... That I dug my key into the side of his pretty little suped up 4 wheel drive, carved my name into his leather seat, I took a Louisville slugger to both head lights, slashed a hole in all 4 tires... And maybe next time he'll think before he cheats. I might saved a little trouble for the next girl, Cause the next time that he cheats...
BRIDGE Oh, you know it won't be on me! Ohh... not on me... Cause I dug my key into the side of his pretty little suped up 4 wheel drive, carved my name into his leather seat... I took a Louisville slugger to both head lights, slashed a hole in all 4 tires... Maybe next time he'll think before he cheats. Ohh.. Maybe next time he'll think before he cheats... Ohh... before he cheats...
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