When singer-songwriter Laci Kaye Booth performed “George F***** Strait” at Nashville’s CMA Fest earlier this month, she warned the audience that her new song wasn’t for everyone. “It’s making a lot of old biddies on Facebook mad,” the East Texas native told the crowd, before launching into a sultry ode to the King of Country. “Lord, if I can’t have him / I’ll get on my knees and pray,” Booth sings over snarling guitars as the song builds from a simmer to a scorching fervor. “I’ve loved a lot of cowboys in my daddy-issue phase / God, give me a man that just gets better with age / Like George f—ing Strait.”Written by Booth, Anderson East, and Melissa Fuller, “George F***** Strait” centers the female gaze and…
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