{"id":4381,"date":"2021-10-06T20:08:14","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T20:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gamportfolio.drkretz.knight.domains\/gender-in-country-music\/memory-i-dont-mess-with-by-lee-brice\/"},"modified":"2021-10-06T20:08:14","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T20:08:14","slug":"memory-i-dont-mess-with-by-lee-brice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamportfolio.drkretz.knight.domains\/gender-in-country-music\/memory-i-dont-mess-with-by-lee-brice\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cMemory I Don\u2019t Mess With\u201d by Lee Brice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The song \u201cMemory I Don\u2019t Mess With\u201d by Lee Brice is a story of how the artist sees what seems to be an ex-girlfriend that he is still not over or is sad that he lost in the first place. Throughout the lyrics, there are some that fit the masculine stereotypes but also some lyrics that don\u2019t reinforce the stereotypes for men. Since this song is about how the male in the relationship feels, I was not able to find any clear feminine stereotypes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Link to song lyrics: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/genius.com\/Lee-brice-memory-i-dont-mess-with-lyrics\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/genius.com\/Lee-brice-memory-i-dont-mess-with-lyrics<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Masculine Stereotypes<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cCold Walk in December, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Warming up your hands<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201d\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In a relationship, oftentimes, it is normal or stereotypical for the male to offer his jacket or do certain things to make his girlfriend comfortable. This lyric implies that during the cold he would help warm up her hands, which fits the male stereotype in the relationship.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI\u2019m close as I can get, To a memory I don\u2019t mess with\u201d<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">These lyrics can be argued to be both stereotypical and non-stereotypical of males. When thinking of it being stereotypical, some may say that during a breakup males tend to just forget about it and not even think about it hence connecting to the lyrics \u201cmemory I don\u2019t mess with\u201d. On the other side, it could be non-stereotypical because it is implying that the male is admitting he is not over the girl which is why he doesn\u2019t want to think about those memories.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The song as a whole, both reinforces stereotypes as well as doesn\u2019t meet stereotypes. Following some time after the breakup, the lyrics show the artist\u2019s soft and caring emotions which aren\u2019t very common with male stereotypes. This can be shown in the lyrics \u201cThe one I was obsessed with\u201d. Though it displays the gentle emotions of the male it also shows the effort he is making towards pushing any of those memories and feelings aside.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The song \u201cMemory I Don\u2019t Mess With\u201d by Lee Brice is a story of how the artist sees what seems to be an ex-girlfriend that he is still&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4380,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[172],"tags":[74],"splot_meta":{"author":"Alli Engels","license":"","source":"Google Images"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamportfolio.drkretz.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4381"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamportfolio.drkretz.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamportfolio.drkretz.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamportfolio.drkretz.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamportfolio.drkretz.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gamportfolio.drkretz.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamportfolio.drkretz.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamportfolio.drkretz.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamportfolio.drkretz.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamportfolio.drkretz.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}