{"id":3065,"date":"2015-01-31T12:00:07","date_gmt":"2015-01-31T18:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/?p=3065"},"modified":"2015-01-29T01:09:40","modified_gmt":"2015-01-29T07:09:40","slug":"snl-gets-a-taste-of-blake-shelton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/2015\/01\/31\/snl-gets-a-taste-of-blake-shelton\/","title":{"rendered":"SNL Gets a Taste of Blake Shelton"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"imgres\"<\/a>Blake Shelton\u2019s success continues to sky-rocket from his win on the Voice and his chart topper, \u201cNeon Light\u201d, to his debut as host and musical guest on Saturday Night Live. Saturday Night Live got a jump start after a few sluggish weeks. The pop country star brought a smile to many faces with skits including \u201cFarm Hunk\u201d, a parody of the Bachelor, and \u201cWishin\u2019 Boot\u201d, a satire of inspirational country ballads. Blake\u2019s humor and wit stole the show!<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s SNL cast has definitely not been as strong as years past, but Blake\u2019s wonderful comedic and musical performances gave the show just what it needed. Shelton\u2019s humble roots shown through in his Hee Haw-themed opening monologue. While sitting on a bale of hay, Blake did a \u201clittle pickin\u2019 and grinnin\u2019\u201d as he tried to draw out laughter with good old country jokes. Blake killed it with country self-parody throughout the episode.<\/p>\n

\"imgres-1\"<\/a>Although using stereotypes of the south and country music, you\u2019ve got to love a man that can laugh at himself! The highlight of the night was \u201cWishin\u2019 Boot\u201d, a song that satirized typical inspirational country\u00a0ballads. Blake was accompanied in this pre-recorded skit by the hilarious Kate McKinnon and Aidy Bryant. This terribly catchy (and I mean terrible), country song had the crowd laughing hysterically, and I was no exception. Although obviously a bad country song, \u201cWishin\u2019 Boot\u201d was undeniably funny!<\/p>\n

\"imgres-2\"The episode\u2019s rendition of the Bachelor, \u201cFarm Hunk\u201d, was hilarious as the female contestants tried to \u201csteal him [Shelton] away for a sec\u201d. This skit gave the audience some good laughs even though the majority of the comedic lines came from the strong female cast. Still, even with a strong cast by your side the typically hilarious \u201cFamily Feud\u201d skit was not as funny as expected from this reoccurring skit. \u201cFamily Feud\u201d contestants were comprised of the coaches from the Voice and the judges from American Idol. Once again, Kate McKinnon stole the spotlight with an impersonation of Keith Urban. Blake, playing himself, had a few good lines mentioning his beautiful and talented wife, Miranda Lambert.<\/p>\n

Blake Shelton\u2019s comedic versatility was refreshing and just what SNL needed; not to mention his phenomenal musical performances with songs like \u201cBoys \u2018Round Here\u201d and \u201cNeon Light\u201d. In the words of Blake Shelton, he is \u201ckind of like the\u00a0Justin Bieber\u00a0of country music \u2014 just a trouble-makin\u2019 cutie.\u201d Blake was welcomed with open arms to the SNL family, and hopefully, we will see him host again in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Blake Shelton\u2019s success continues to sky-rocket from his win on the Voice and his chart topper, \u201cNeon Light\u201d, to his debut as host and musical guest on Saturday Night Live. Saturday Night Live got a jump start after a few … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":3099,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,62,67,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-live-music","category-movies-tv","category-reviews","category-song-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3065"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3187,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3065\/revisions\/3187"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}