History Music / RebaMcEntire

* HangingJudge: The Judge in "The Night the Lights Went Out In Georgia," sentences the singer's brother to death for murdering his best friend, Andy, based on circumstantial evidence. As the chorus goes: "the judge in the town's got bloodstains on his hands."

-->Last night I prayed the Lord my soul to keep,\\
Then I cried myself to sleep.

* HangingJudge: The Judge in "The Night the Lights Went Out In Georgia," sentences the Brother to death for murdering his Cheating Wife, despite having evidence the Sister killed her, to keep the fact that the Judge was also having an affair with the Wife from coming forward.
-->''That's the Night the Lights Went Out In Georgia\\
That's the night they hung an innocent man\\
Don't trust your soul to some backwoods southern lawyer\\
'Cause the Judge in the town's got bloodstains on his hands''

* DoubleMeaningTitle: "It's Your Call." In a literal sense, the telephone call is for the singer's husband. But since the person on the other end of the line is her husband's mistress, she's giving him an ultimatum: end it or she's leaving--"it's your call," as in, it's his choice.

* DualMeaningTitle: "It's Your Call." In a literal sense, the telephone call is for the singer's husband. But since the person on the other end of the line is her husband's mistress, she's giving him an ultimatum: end it or she's leaving--"it's your call," as in, it's his choice.

* DualMeaningChorus: "For My Broken Heart", is all about a woman dealing with a break-up, while the real world context of the song had been written after a plane accident had killed a majority of Reba's band/friends.
-->''Oh Lord Your sun is blinding me,\\
As it wakes me from the dark\\
I guess the world didn't stop\\
For my broken heart\\
No the world ain't gonna stop\\
For My Broken Heart''

-->''And he wonders why he searched so long

* CallAndResponseSong: "Does He Love You"

* HeavyMeta: "Turn On the Radio".

* MurderBallad: "The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia".

* ASideOrderOfRomance: "Somebody"

** Invoked for the video of "You're Gonna Be."

** The entire premise of "Little Rock."

** "Somebody" starts out being about a man sharing his dating troubles with a waitress at his favorite diner. She tells him that he may be surprised to find the love of his life might be right in front of him and he never noticed. The chorus goes on to talk about how the perfect person could be someone you walk past every day and just haven't really met yet. As the man is taking the elevator in his apartment complex, he notices "that blue-eyed girl from two floors up" and wonders if she could be the one the waitress meant. The third verse makes it abundantly clear though that:
--> Now they laugh about the moment that it happened
--> The moment they both missed until that day
--> When he saw his future in her eyes
--> Instead of just another friendly face
--> And he wonders why
--> He searched so long
--> When she was always there
--> At that diner waiting on...

-->''That's one body that will never be found''
-->''You see, little sister don't miss when she aims her gun''

-->''It sounded like somebody else that was talking, asking "Mama, what do I do?"''
-->''She said "Just be nice to the gentlemen, Fancy, they'll be nice to you."''

** Implied in the video for "Is There Life Out There", when her character Maggie's daughter spills coffee on her schoolwork. The daughter apologizes that it was an accident, to which Maggie replies that "I don't need any more ''accidents'' in my life!" Maggie's husband Andy then steps in to call her out on this, and a horrified Maggie breaks down when she realizes what she said.

--> ''I knew what I had to do and I made myself this solemn vow,\\
That I's gonna be a lady someday,\\
Though I don't know when or how,\\
But I couldn't see spending the rest of my life,\\
With my head hung down in shame,\\
You know I might have been born just plain white trash,\\
But [[MeaningfulName Fancy was my name]]!''

* {{Bowdlerise}}: Many radio stations cut Reba's version of "Fancy" short after three verses, probably to avoid having the last verse describe that Fancy "[[DoubleEntendre charmed a king and a congressman]]" and used prostitution to gain wealth and build a Georgia mansion and a New York flat, and finally makes peace with her dead mother after 13 years. Some stations, however, note the full-length version's running time (4:59) and, to fit it within an already tightly-formatted program, defer to the radio edit.

As it wakes me from the dark,\\
I guess the world didn't stop,\\
For my broken heart,\\
No the world ain't gonna stop,\\
For My Broken Heart...''

-->''That's the Night the Lights Went Out In Georgia,\\
That's the night they hung an innocent man,\\
Don't trust your soul to some backwoods southern lawyer,\\
'Cause the Judge in the town's got bloodstains on his hands.''

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CountryMusic's reigning queen for the better part of two decades, [[UsefulNotes/OklahomaUSA Oklahoman]] Reba Nell [=McEntire=] (born March 28, 1955 in [=McAlester=], Oklahoma) has done it all. In her career, she has racked up more than thirty #1 hits (out of more than 80 singles overall) - more than any other female country music artist - and had the first multi-platinum album by a female country act. She is known for her [[UsefulNotes/AmericanAccents twangy voice]], [[FieryRedhead bright red hair]] and strong, no-nonsense material. Her accolades include two Grammys (for "Whoever's in New England" and "Does He Love You"), as well as several trophies from the two major country music award associations, the Academy of Country Music and Country Music Association. Although her radio hits were fewer and further between in the 2000s, she came back in full force in late 2009-early 2010 with "Consider Me Gone," the biggest hit of her career.