Carrie Underwood is, in real life, a happily married mother of two children. But she is still able to channel other people through her music, including the angst of a woman scorned. We picked four of Underwood's best songs that she sang about getting revenge.
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1. "Two Black Cadillacs"
Underwood released "Two Black Cadillacs" in 2011. The song, which Underwood penned alongside Hilary Lindsey and Josh Kear, is from Underwood's fourth studio album, Blown Away. The song is about a wife and her husband's mistress, who both took fatal revenge on him, meeting for the first time at his funeral.
2. "Church Bells"
Like "Two Black Cadillacs," "Church Bells" serves as a stark reminder that the consequences for misbehaving could be deadly. Written by Lindsey, Zach Crowell and Brett James, the song is on Underwood's Storyteller record, out in 2015. But in "Church Bells," the man lost his life due to abuse, not adultery.
"Jenny slipped somethin' in his Tennessee whiskey / No law man was ever gonna find" Underwood sings. "And how he died is still a mystery / But he hit a woman for the very last time."
3. "Blown Away"
"Blown Away" is the story of a girl whose alcoholic and abusive father meets his demise when a tornado hits their home, and his daughter leaves him on the coach to perish. Kear penned the song with Chris Tompkins.
"The song describes him as a mean old mister," Underwood says (via Songfacts). "And you can kind of make that as bad, I guess, as you want it to be. Rhe daughter wishes that -- she can feel a storm coming, and she just wishes it would wash her past away, and in doing so, take her father along."
4. "Before He Cheats"
No list of revenge songs by Underwood is complete without "Before He Cheats." The song, written by Tompkins and Kear, is from Underwood's freshman album, Some Hearts. Released in 2005, the song came on the heels of "Jesus, Take the Wheel" and "Don't Forget to Remember Me," giving fans a glimpse of Underwood's feisty side as well.
The song was originally written for Gretchen Wilson, but became a mega-hit for Underwood instead.
"After [Wilson's] first record, everybody wanted to have a song on that second record," Tompkins recalls to The Boot, adding that he was trying to write something "edgy." "I never would've thought that Carrie Underwood would record it! I went into my office that morning and began typing lyrics ... not even picking up a guitar or a pen or anything ... and I typed up that first verse."
