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Imagine walking into a recording studio boardroom. You're a teenage girl from Oklahoma. You're wearing this homemade spaghetti strap dress, and you are standing in front of the most powerful men in the music industry. The absolute titans of the era, yeah.

Yeah, right in the middle of her set. I mean, most teenagers in that situation would have been crushed. They would have gone home, bought a conservative dress, apologized, and just tried to fit into the country club. But Wanda essentially decided right then and there to just go build her own clubhouse.

• Today we are unpacking the story of a woman who defied every single polite expectation of her era
• Her life is a story of massive personal turning points and intense controversies that actively shape the DNA of the modern music you listen to today
• Like, did she just transition to rock because her famous boyfriend told her to
• She was really the very first artist to inject that kind of unabashed Las Vegas style glamour into country and rockabilly