Makin’ Tracks: Stephen Wilson Jr.’s ‘Holler’ Extends Country’s Violent Thread at a Turbulent Time

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Stephen Wilson Jr. talks to Billboard about 'Holler' and how it became a 'healing modality' for him.

The product of a shotgun wedding between two 18-year-old parents who were not, in Wilson’s estimation, ready for the responsibility of a child, he ended up in his father’s custody in Indiana, following in his dad’s footsteps by taking up boxing at age 7. When he visited his mother in a double-wide trailer in Smyrna, Tenn., he witnessed — or simply knew — she was being physically abused by the men who shared her life.

“I kill people in my songs,” Underwood said with a laugh in 2015. “I have characters that often are terrible.” The song’s challenge, McBryde says, was “trying to make you still want to root for this psychotic young woman that obviously has murderous intentions. She’s rightfully angry, and she’s a little bit psychotic, but you still want to make sure everybody’s rooting for her at the end.”

That’s likely one reason why country music, despite its historic strand of vicious material, is rarely mentioned in general discussions about the effects of violent songs. “With country music, there has often been a kind of morality tale attached to those,” Peters says. “At least the guy who murders the girl in the old-time-country murder ballad regrets it — the ‘Oh, what have I done’ sort of thing.

 

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