I'm Still a Guy

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Name = I'm Still a Guy


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Artist = Brad Paisley
Album = 5th Gear
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Released = March 3, 2008
Format = CD Single
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Genre = Country
Length = 4:11
Label = Arista Nashville
Writer = Brad Paisley, Kelley Lovelace, Lee Thomas Miller
Producer = Frank Rogers
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Last single = "Letter to Me"
(2007)
This single = "I'm Still a Guy"
(2008)
Next single = "Waitin' on a Woman"
(2008)
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"I'm Still a Guy" is a single by American country music singer Brad Paisley. It is the fourth single released from his 2007 album "5th Gear". As with the other three singles from that album, "I'm Still a Guy" has reached Number One on the "Billboard" Hot Country Songs charts.

Content

"I'm Still a Guy" is a mid-tempo set in triple meter, written by Paisley along with his frequent collaborators Kelley Lovelace and Lee Thomas Miller. In the song, the narrator explains to his female companion that he is "still a guy", despite his companion's attempts to correct his stereotypical behavior, and despite society's attempts to apply feminine traits to men.

Paisley said that his intention was to "capture this struggle a little bit between men and women in a playful way".cite journal |last=Horner |first=Alanna |date=2008-06-30 |title=Story Behind the Song |journal=Country Weekly |volume=15 |issue=13 |pages=13 |accessdate= 2008-06-15] Initially, Paisley was not certain if a female audience would accept the song, so he sang it to his wife, Kimberly Williams, who was pregnant at the time. According to Miller, Paisley's wife "laughed long and hard at all the right places".

Chart performance

The song debuted at #48 on the Hot Country Songs chart dated March 8, 2008, moving up to #27 the next week. It climbed to Number One on the country chart dated May 31, 2008, and stayed there for three weeks, giving Paisley his seventh consecutive Number One single and eleventh overall.

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