This week I’d like to look at somewhat of a “classic” country singer’s song, namely Kenny Chesney’s She Thinks My Tractor’s Sexy. I can already tell from the title of the song that we’ll probably have a similar problem with this song that we had with the last one, ie. we won’t be able to differentiate whether or not Chesney wants to have sex with the girl (who will probably remain unnamed and nondescript, just a prediction) or his truck. Without further ado, let’s find out which one it is.

The first verse starts “Plowin’ these fields in the hot summer sun, over by the gate lordy here she comes, with a basket full of chicken and a big cold jug of sweet tea. I make a little room and she climbs on up. Open up a throttle and stir a little dust, just look at her face she ain’t a foolin’ me”. Okay, so so far one of my predictions has proven to be correct: the girl, or “she”, is incredibly nondescript, like seriously? The chicken she’s carrying has more character development than she does at this point. I’m not expecting this to change at any point during the course of the song either.

Now for the chorus, which is where the biggest plot twist of ANY country song happens. The chorus goes “She thinks my tractor’s sexy. It really turns her on. She’s always starin’ at me, while I’m chuggin’ along. She likes the way it’s pullin’ while we’re tillin’ up the land. She’s even kind of crazy ’bout my farmer’s tan.
She’s the only one who really understands what gets me. She thinks my tractor’s sexy”. So SHE wants to have sex with the tractor. Or wait, she wants to have sex with him because he has a tractor. Either way, a tractor is involved in a way that a tractor should never be involved.

Now the next verse, “We ride back and forth ’til we run out of light, take it to the barn put it up for the night. Climb up in the loft sit and talk with the radio on. She said she’s got a dream and I asked what it is: She wants a little farm and a yard full of kids, one more teeny weeny ride before I take her home”. Wait. This entire song is just one long euphemism for sex. See, I’m okay with that in any other genre of music, or even any other sub-genre of country that isn’t “bro” related. It doesn’t work for bro-country because I genuinely believe many of the singers actually want to have sex with their vehicles! But I digress.

The chorus plays again and then this one line plays “Well she ain’t into cars or pickup trucks, but if it runs like a Deere man her eyes light up”. Either this line means she’s only turned on by Deere trucks, or Chesney is saying that she’s only attracted to him, and honestly, it’s hard to tell which one it is (I’m joking, it’s definitely supposed to mean the latter).

So this song was interesting because it was a strange innuendo for sex delivered through the metaphor of driving a truck. The prediction I made at the beginning of this post was correct, however,  “she” remained nondescript and nameless, especially compared to the truck, which we know is a Deere truck.

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