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It's mostly cause she's got all theses CRAZY EMOTIONS in the act like she's about to collapse at any second, and I always loved the song but I hated it's Civil War Confederate associations- then I saw this video and found it was hunter S. Thompson's favorite song ever - so I'm claiming it as MINE.
Or think of this this way, can you imagine a modern artist being that unaware of the camera? She's actively avoiding the camera to go all big and crazy to the audience. It's naked. which was her whole thing, of course.
So around 2:57 when she actually looks at the camera for "D-iiiiiie to make men free" you get a shiver that shiver is called America's Entire 20th Century Foreign Policy, for good and for much bad.