# Body Like a Back Road (song by Sam Hunt) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [November 26, 2021, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-like-a-back-road-song-by-sam-hunt/954980 "2021-11-26T16:47:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanubv.2/32/3260_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUBv.2)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2021, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-like-a-back-road-song-by-sam-hunt/954980/1 "2021-11-26T16:47:18Z")
The resurrection of the “Hang on Sloopy” thread reminded me that I’ve been meaning to bring this up for . . .4 years now. If you don’t care to watch the video (which contains the lyrics, I think?), it’s a song celebrating the guy’s girlfriend and her voluptuous body. Nothing new about that, except from the very first time I heard it I got the impression the girlfriend is black. Which, if true, is pretty damned nifty coming from a white country singer. The lyrics in question are: “Got a girl from the Southside Got braids in her hair” and "The way she fit in them blue jeans She don’t need no belt But I can turn 'em inside out I don’t need no help Got hips like honey So thick and so sweet " I’m sure I’m projecting my own experience, but where I live, “southside” is code for “poor and black” and I kind of get the impression that’s true of a lot of cities. Also, when I hear “braids” I think of black hairstyle(unless the girl is 8). Apologies if this has come off as insensitive in any way. My initial reaction to this song was really positive but I also realize I may be misinterpreting it. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Fx-EfjsRcBk/maxresdefault.jpg "Sam Hunt - Body Like A Back Road (Official Lyric Video)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fx-EfjsRcBk) ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2021, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-like-a-back-road-song-by-sam-hunt/954980/2 "2021-11-26T17:25:06Z")
I have no idea, but does a lot of modern country sound like that? I wouldn’t have even guessed it was country until the guitar solo. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2021, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-like-a-back-road-song-by-sam-hunt/954980/3 "2021-11-27T10:54:26Z")
Yep. Quite a bit of what’s released as country these days has that sort of sound. There’s always been a certain overlap between country and pop/rock. As to the ethnicity of the woman in question - it’s ambiguous. Which might be part of the appeal, it would fit a lot of women so a man can think of his woman while listening and a woman can imagine herself as the woman in question. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2021, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-like-a-back-road-song-by-sam-hunt/954980/4 "2021-11-28T00:57:59Z")
Agree the ethnicity is ambiguous. Catchy little song. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2021, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-like-a-back-road-song-by-sam-hunt/954980/5 "2021-11-28T03:52:42Z")
Also neat, in that a song in large part about a woman’s body is done with a video that doesn’t include any sexualized bodies – there’s a brief glimpse of fully dressed women standing in the audience, but the cyclists are dressed and helmeted in such a fashion that their gender isn’t even clear.