I'm Still a Guy

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I'm Still a Guy

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"I'm Still a Guy"

Single by Brad Paisley

from the album 5th Gear

Released

March 3, 2008

Genre

Country

Length

4:11 (album version)
3:55 (radio version)

Label

Arista Nashville

Songwriter(s)

Brad Paisley
Kelley Lovelace
Lee Thomas Miller

Producer(s)

Frank Rogers

Brad Paisley singles chronology

"Letter to Me"
(2007)

"I'm Still a Guy"
(2008)

"Waitin' on a Woman"
(2008)

"I'm Still a Guy" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music singer Brad Paisley. It was released in March 2008 as the fourth single from his album 5th Gear. As with the other three singles from that album, "I'm Still a Guy" reached number one on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart.

Content

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"I'm Still a Guy" is a mid-tempo set in triple meter, written by Paisley along with 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 society's attempts to apply feminine traits to men.^[1]

Paisley said that his intention was to "capture this struggle a little bit between men and women in a playful way".^[1]

Initially, Paisley was not certain if a female audience would accept the song, so he sang it to his wife, Kimberly Williams-Paisley - who was pregnant at the time - straight after writing it at his co-writer and friend, Kelley Lovelace's, house. According to Miller, she "laughed long and hard at all the right places".^[1] Just hours later, while back at Lovelace's house, he found out his wife's water had broken - Lovelace's words to him as he ran out of the door were "Don't forget the last song you wrote before you became a father!"^[2]

Critical reception

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Kevin John Coyne, reviewing the song for Country Universe, gave it a B− rating. Coyne says that while the song would be great to create energy at a concert, it "lacks the strength to be a viable radio single. Instead, it sounds more like a ditty rather than a substantive song."^[3]

Personnel

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Randle Currie - steel guitar
Eric Darken - percussion
Kevin "Swine" Grantt - bass guitar
Wes Hightower - background vocals
Gary Hooker - electric guitar
Gordon Mote - piano, music box
Brad Paisley - lead vocals, electric guitar, acoustic guitar
Ben Sesar - drums
Justin Williamson - fiddle

Chart performance

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The song debuted at number 48 on the Hot Country Songs chart dated March 8, 2008, moving up to number 28 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.^[1]

Chart (2008)	Peak Position
Canada Country (Billboard)^[4]	1
Canada (Canadian Hot 100)^[5]	54
US Billboard Hot 100^[6]	33
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)^[7]	1

Year-end charts

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Chart (2008)	Position
Canada Country (Billboard)^[8]	4
US Country Songs (Billboard)^[9]	10

Certifications

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Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
Canada (Music Canada)^[10]	Gold	40,000^‡
United States (RIAA)^[11]	Platinum	1,000,000^‡
^‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

References

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^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Horner, Alanna (2008-06-30). "Story Behind the Song". Country Weekly. 15 (13): 13.
^ "BBC Radio 2 - Radio 2 Celebrates Country, Brad Paisley and Friends: BBC Radio Theatre, 2014".
^ Coyne, Kevin John (2008-02-19). "Brad Paisley - "I'm Still a Guy"". Country Universe. Retrieved 2010-06-17.
^ "Brad Paisley Chart History (Canada Country)". Billboard.
^ "Brad Paisley Chart History (Canadian Hot 100)". Billboard. Retrieved February 6, 2011.
^ "Brad Paisley Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard. Retrieved February 6, 2011.
^ "Brad Paisley Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard. Retrieved February 6, 2011.
^ "Top Canada Country Songs". R&R. December 12, 2008. p. 62.
^ "Best of 2008: Country Songs". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. 2008. Retrieved December 13, 2008.
^ "Canadian single certifications – Brad Paisley – I'm Still a Guy". Music Canada. Retrieved November 29, 2022.
^ "American single certifications – Brad Paisley – I'm Still a Guy". Recording Industry Association of America. Retrieved March 31, 2016.

v t e Brad Paisley singles
Who Needs Pictures	"Who Needs Pictures" "He Didn't Have to Be" "Me Neither" "We Danced"
Part II	"Two People Fell in Love" "Wrapped Around" "I'm Gonna Miss Her (The Fishin' Song)" "I Wish You'd Stay"
Mud on the Tires	"Celebrity" "Little Moments" "Whiskey Lullaby" "Mud on the Tires"
Time Well Wasted	"Alcohol" "When I Get Where I'm Going" "The World" "She's Everything"
5th Gear	"Ticks" "Online" "Letter to Me" "I'm Still a Guy" "Waitin' on a Woman"
Play	"Start a Band"
American Saturday Night	"Then" "Welcome to the Future" "American Saturday Night" "Water"
Hits Alive	"Anything Like Me"
This Is Country Music	"This Is Country Music" "Old Alabama" "Remind Me" "Camouflage"
Wheelhouse	"Southern Comfort Zone" "Beat This Summer" "I Can't Change the World" "The Mona Lisa"
Moonshine in the Trunk	"River Bank" "Perfect Storm" "Crushin' It" "Country Nation"
Love and War	"Today" "Last Time for Everything" "Heaven South"
Son of the Mountains	"The Medicine Will"/"Son of the Mountains"
Non-album and featured singles	"Without a Fight" "Bucked Off" "No I in Beer" "Freedom Was a Highway" "Forever Country"
Other songs	"Accidental Racist" "Is It Raining at Your House" "Santa Looked a Lot Like Daddy" "You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive"

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