This country artist wrote a clever song about Blue Mississippi years ago
For four years, Mary Kutter's song "Mississippi Votes Blue" existed in the realm of the impossible. The Kentucky-born singer-songwriter and her co-writer, Matthew Osborn, created the tune in 2022 as a playful exercise in imagining things that would never happen in America. Kentucky would stop racing horses. Texas would quit selling barbecue. Georgia would stop playing football. Nevada would abandon blackjack. And Mississippi, as the joke and the lyrics went, would vote blue . Then this year's U.S. Senate election happened. As vote totals continued to trickle in from around Mississippi, showing Democratic candidate Scott Colom with a razor-thin edge over Republican incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith, Kutter suddenly found herself at the center of a social-media storm she never expected. "I opened up my Instagram and all these DMs," Kutter told the Clarion Ledger. "Now TikTok , too. People are saying, 'You're gonna have to change the lyrics to your song.'" For a songwriter whose song was built around absurdity, reality was beginning to sound awfully familiar. A breakup song disguised as a 50-state joke At first glance, "Mississippi Votes Blue" sounds like a political novelty song. It isn't. The track is actually a clever breakup song. Kutter spends four verses
