“Girls Lie Too”
Terri Clark
Written by Connie Harrington, Kelly Lovelace, and Tim Nichols
Billboard
#1 (1 week)
September 11, 2004
Terri Clark finally got her flowers during an era when most of her female peers had been pushed off of the radio dial.
She was a great fit for the brief “Redneck Woman” phase that country music went through, being able to play the outlaw good ol’ girl without sacrificing her feminist lens and while keeping her tongue firmly in cheek.
I don’t think anyone else could’ve pulled off “Girls Lie Too” as well as she did. It’s hard to imagine even Patty or Trisha growling “size don’t matter anyway” with the same sardonic gusto.
This could’ve come off as a novelty record in lesser hands, but like Pam did on “Cleopatra, Queen of Denial,” she rocks this one too hard to dismiss it as such.
Terri Clark has yet to revisit the upper rankings of the charts since, but she certainly went out on a high note.
“Girls Lie Too” gets a B+.
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