Takin' Pills

Album: Hell on Heels (2011)
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Songfacts®:

  • This song finds the three Pistol Annies celebrating everything we are told that we shouldn't indulge in, from prozac and pain pills to cigarettes, booze and truck-stop burgers with fries. Problem is the girls are spending so much on their vices that they are broke. The debt-laden trio can't afford to repay the boys in the band or repair their clamped out van.
  • The video takes the same route. Shot in Nashville, the tongue-in-cheek clip features Lonestar Annie (Miranda Lambert), Holler Annie (Angaleena Presley) and Hippie Annie (Ashley Monroe) driving around various parts of the city and rehearsing for a gig with their instruments and various vices. "We left the driving to me since I was just smoking," said Presley, laughing.

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