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3 | '''Charles Edgar Walker Hayes''' (1979-) is a CountryMusic singer from Mobile, Alabama. |
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5 | He first hit Nashville, Tennessee in 2005 in search of a music career. Creator/MercuryRecords picked him up, but dropped him before he could release anything. He then moved to Creator/CapitolRecords for two singles, "Pants" and "Why Wait for Summer", intended for an album titled '"Reason to Rhyme''. |
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7 | After losing his deal with Capitol, he got a job at Costco and had minor success on the songwriting front, with Colt Ford ("Dirty Side") and Rodney Atkins ("Eat Sleep Love You Repeat") recording his singles. |
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9 | A deal with songwriter/producer Shane [=McAnally's=] Smack publishing company led to two extended plays, and then a contract with the then-newly re-established Creator/MonumentRecords Nashville. From this came the album ''boom.'' and his first top-10 hit, "You Broke Up with Me". However, follow-up singles struggled, with several never even making it onto an album. |
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11 | Then in 2021, he experienced a viral hit with the unexpected smash "Fancy Like", a song which gained traction on [=TikTok=] and soared to the top of the country music charts. |
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13 | !Albums |
14 | * ''Reason to Rhyme'' (2011) |
15 | * ''boom.'' (2017) |
16 | * ''Country Stuff: The Album'' (2022) |
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18 | !Extended plays |
19 | * ''Walker Hayes'' (2010) |
20 | * ''8 Tracks Vol. 1: Good Shit'' (2016) |
21 | * ''8 Tracks Vol. 2: Break the Internet'' (2018) |
22 | * ''8 Tracks Vol. 3: Black Sheep'' (2019) |
23 | * ''Country Stuff'' (2021) |
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25 | !Tropes present in his work: |
26 | * AllLowercaseLetters: His album ''boom.'' |
27 | * DoubleEntendre: "Fancy Like" features the line "She wanna dip me like them fries in her Frosty". |
28 | * EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: "Pants" and "Why Wait for Summer" have a more country-rock sound than his later efforts. |
29 | * HeavyMeta: "90's Country" is all about listening to, well, country songs from the 1990s. |
30 | * HumbleGoal: "Fancy Like" is about how he just wants to have a good time and eat Applebee's with his wife. |
31 | * ProductPlacement: "Fancy Like" is pretty much a commercial for Applebee's. You know, before it ''literally'' became a commercial for Applebee's. |
32 | * {{Pun}}: "Trash My Heart" has the line "So Holiday Inn to you". |
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