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Sweet Home Alabama (2002)

Appears in 1 song

tis the damn season
Evermore · 2020

Angela & Uncle Jerry cite Sweet Home Alabama as an example of the 'return home' trope that the song draws on, the narrative of someone going back to their hometown and encountering the old boyfriend while questioning whether to abandon the city life. Uncle Jerry describes the movie's premise ('she goes home, she's got the old boyfriend') as a version of the same Big City Bad / Little Country Good dynamic operating in the song.

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