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Originally Posted by SaintSwan
The amount of country songs that reduce me to a blubbering mess is frankly embarrassing (The Baby by Blake Shelton[/B], Cowgirls don't cry by Brooks, Dunn and Reba, Letters from Home by John Michael Montgomery). Doesn't matter that I know what they're trying to do, and it doesn't matter that I recognize the manipulative nature of what they're trying to do, it still works on me every time.
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Heh heh...your post made me wonder if the songs would have the same effect on me, especially since I usually don't like country music because it can seem so sappy and sentimental, SaintSwan.
So I listened to "The Baby" and must admit...it reduced me to a blubbering mess! I like how it ended up with him crying like a baby, because that was a slightly clever twist on the song's main idea of a mother's love for her baby, a feeling I relate to very much.
Next, the "Letters from Home" song by John Michael Montgomery made me cry, too. I liked its mixture of humor and seriousness, in particular these lines: "But no one laughs 'cause there ain't nothing funny when a soldier cries, and I just wipe my eyes."
I made it stoically through "Cowgirls don't cry," though!