{"id":4384,"date":"2021-10-06T20:11:22","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T20:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gamportfolio.drkretz.knight.domains\/gender-in-country-music\/come-back-as-a-country-boy-by-blake-shelton\/"},"modified":"2021-10-06T20:11:22","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T20:11:22","slug":"come-back-as-a-country-boy-by-blake-shelton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamportfolio.drkretz.knight.domains\/gender-in-country-music\/come-back-as-a-country-boy-by-blake-shelton\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cCome Back as a Country Boy\u201d by Blake Shelton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The song by Blake Shelton, \u201cCome Back as a Country Boy\u201d is heavily filled with masculine stereotypes. In general, the song is about when the artist passes away, he would still want to be a country boy if he were to \u201ccome back\u201d. Though there are many examples of masculine stereotypes I decided to choose the most predominant ones below. There are no feminine stereotypes because there is no mention of any women throughout the song.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Link to song lyrics: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azlyrics.com\/lyrics\/blakeshelton\/comebackasacountryboy.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/www.azlyrics.com\/lyrics\/blakeshelton\/comebackasacountryboy.html<\/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\">\u201cI&#8217;m up before the sun, either hauling hay or hunting\u201d\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When you think of a \u201ccountry boy\u201d you probably think of a farmer or a job that has to do with hard labor and men that are most often seen working those jobs. This lyric also fits the stereotype of men doing dirty work jobs as well as liking to hunt.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cA fish ain&#8217;t on my wall, And the whiskey don&#8217;t burn going down\u201d\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This lyric points out that the artist has decorations of fish, maybe even deer, on the walls which are very common for men more so than women. Whiskey can sometimes be seen as a \u201cmanly\u201d drink or that men drink hard liquor which makes these lyrics fitting to the stereotype.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI don&#8217;t wanna be born into money, where the boots don&#8217;t ever get muddy\u201d<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The first part of this lyric could be controversial as some men may prefer to be born into money. If you look at it in the eyes of a \u201ccountry boy\u201d though, it implies that they would rather work hard and get their boots dirty for their life\u2019s work.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">After looking at the lyrics of this song, it becomes clear that because this song is full of country masculine stereotypes is because of the artist Blake Shelton. Blake is what some people would say is the classic country boy when it comes to his music. Most of his song lyrics are very country boy stereotypical talking about beer\/drinking, girls, being country, and God.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The song by Blake Shelton, \u201cCome Back as a Country Boy\u201d is heavily filled with masculine stereotypes. 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