"I Ain't Gonna Stand For It," Stevie Wonder (1981)

Did you know Stevie could go country?

Peak: #4 on the R&B chart (#11 on the Hot 100)
Streams: 3.5 million

The roots of country music and R&B are fully entwined, and “I Ain’t Gonna Stand For It” makes that clear. Yes, that is actually Stevie Wonder singing in the verses, even though he sounds like a grizzled old Nashville troubadour. When he switches from that voice into his soulful wails on the chorus, he’s basically saying, “Look, it’s all just music, and I need all of it to tell this particular story about a cheating woman.”