Country Music Hall of Famer and pop culture icon Reba McEntire‘s career song and forever show closer. An unexpected anthem for the LGBT community. Bobbie Gentry’s dissertation on female empowerment.

“Fancy” was also one of Gentry’s most political songs, describing it in the mid-1970s as her “strongest statement for women’s lib, if you really listen to it. I agree wholeheartedly with that movement ...

Song with staying power: McEntire’s 1990 cover of “Fancy” still resonates as a bold story of survival and reinvention decades after its release. Cultural touchstone: Fans connect with the song’s ...