New girls: Country music duo Maddie & Tae take the wheel

Last July, two teenage country singers lobbed a feminist grenade at Nashville and scored a hit.Maddie and Tae's "Girl in a Country Song" was a catchy, clever, charismatic critique of the testosterone-addled songwriters on Music Row who continue to portray women as party accessories, instead of, y'know, sentient beings. "We used to get a little respect," the duo sang on the hook. "Now we're lucky if we even get / to climb up in your truck, keep our mouth shut and ride along / and be the g...