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In the opening lines of the song, Bryan is heard calling out to a girl, telling her she's got everybody looking.  This woman is obviously being cajoled into dancing for a group of onlooking men.  This immediately sets a standard that, to be appreciated by men, women must be attractive and able to get “everybody looking.”  The chorus of the song echoes the words “Shake it.”  Telling the woman to display her body for everyone to see, even the birds and the bees.  Her dancing is purely for the enjoyment of the onlookers, regardless of whether she is enjoying herself.  Branden Leap, a professor at Mississippi State said, “But the ideal rural man is now depicted as a particular type of heterosexual provider, while white women have increasingly been represented as the ideal sexual objects to complement this masculinity,” when remarking on how popular country music’s values have changed.  This idea of women complimenting men's masculinity is a major theme in not only country music, but all popular music today.

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