Sweet Home Alabama was written in 1973 in response to Neil Young's repeatedly thumbing his nose at the South, and at Alabama in particular. But at the time Lynyrd Skynyrd released Sweet Home Alabama in 1974, the practice was relatively new. The use of a song as revenge for insults, real or imagined, is quite common in the hip-hop world, where rappers routinely use their material to abuse other artists. These are songs written in retaliation for something flippant or defamatory enunciated in somebody else's song. Sweet Home Alabama falls into that wonderful category of songs known on the continent as chansons de revanche or dissenlieder.
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