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    This document lists common clichés found in contemporary country songs. It provides a list of over 40 clichés that are often included to appeal to country music fans, such as references to trucks, liquor, fishing, farms, hunting, small towns, and Christianity. The document notes that scoring points are given for including these clichés, while controversial topics are penalized.

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    Here's a checklist of clichés often heard in the lyrics of country music songs

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    This document lists common clichés found in contemporary country songs. It provides a list of over 40 clichés that are often included to appeal to country music fans, such as references to trucks, liquor, fishing, farms, hunting, small towns, and Christianity. The document notes that scoring points are given for including these clichés, while controversial topics are penalized.

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    Country Music Clichés

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    The Salt Lake Tribune
    This document lists common clichés found in contemporary country songs. It provides a list of over 40 clichés that are often included to appeal to country music fans, such as references to trucks, liquor, fishing, farms, hunting, small towns, and Christianity. The document notes that scoring points are given for including these clichés, while controversial topics are penalized.

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    Standard clichs in contemporary country songs

    If you're scoring a country song at home, add 10 points for each clich. Subtract 20 points for each mention of Jean-Paul Sartre, Mohammad, homosexuality, planks in the Democratic Party platform or Sex in the City.
    Trucks (especially four-wheel drive trucks) Liquor (usually Jack Daniels, but often just a cold one) Fishing Farms Farm equipment (extra points for green tractors) Hunting Race-car drivers (Petty and Earnhardt are favorites) Friday or Saturday night, or Sunday morning at church Jesus Tastee-Freeze Drinking away your sorrows because your girl left you for another man Drinking away your sorrows because your girl doesnt leave you because youd rather go shing Country girls and cowboys (who are never gay) Rural, small-town life A bull (subtract points if it is named Fu Manchu) Revenge (this applies to you in particular, Carrie Underwood) Cornbread and biscuits Telling someone to shove it (usually bosses) The time you met your signicant other Chevrolet Mud on the tires Fishing holes One-light towns (extra points for no lights) Praying Wildowers Honkytonks Being a mans man Hank, or name-checking other country artists (such as Loretta Lynn) Cowboy attire The woods (backwoods are better) 12-point bucks Trailers (extra credit for double-wide) Blankets in a eld A peach (if Georgia is mentioned) The red, white and blue Pride in being white-trash or redneck Dirt roads Festivals, jamborees, rodeos Raising hell (PG-rated) Proud of being a maneater Banjo (Note to Rascal Flatts: Just because you have the word banjo in your latest hit song doesnt mean that its a down-home country song) Memory lane Honeysuckle (whatever that is) Dogs (never hamsters) Catsh Bass Marlboro (Pall Malls for women) Moonlight or harvest moons The stars overhead Campres, bonres or tailgates The South (with no mention of slavery) A holler or hollow
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