All five remaining songs on this list of the Top Songs of the Century required little or no conversation. Lee Ann Womack's "I Hope You Dance" is an inspiring sonic masterpiece that blanketed country radio for five years before pulling back ever so slightly.
Which country artist was put into a real-live cage before taking his place on stage? Whose concert was interrupted by a family of goats and a dancing bird? Which singer returned to her tour bus to find a headless eel (ewwww!) in her bed?
Jennifer Lopez might be a pop artist you’d think would be least likely to cover a country song, but at the inaugural date of her "All I Have" residency in Vegas, she chose to include an emotional tune by Lee Ann Womack in her set.