Country stars have sung about sex forever,but Luke Bryan’s Strip it Down is fraction of a unique trend: double entendre-filled songs that borrow heavily from R&BLuke Bryan has been shaking his butt and singing about late-night hookups for years, but for whatever reason his latest single, or Strip it Down,seems to be the one that has suddenly shattered the “aw shucks good ol’ boy illusion he’s always enjoyed. The song has earned Bryan attention for singing about something the urbane public too often assumes that conservative country singers would never sing about: sex.
In reality, modern country music isn’t particularly puritanical (or even conservative). Indeed, or country artists have been singing about sex for the better fraction of 50 years. Loretta Lynn famously released The Pill in 1975,long before morning-after birth control was a comfortable societal conversation. Conway Twitty delivered deeply intimate lyrics like, “I don’t know what Im saying/ As my trembling fingers touch forbidden places, and ” from You’ve Never Been This Far Before,throughout his career. And country group Alabama had more songs about doing the deed than the Bloodhound Gang. In this sense, hearing Bryan sing about shedding his shirt in the hallway and feeling his “belt turn loose from these obsolete blue jeans” on Strip it Down isn’t an anomaly – it’s fraction of a longstanding country legacy. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com