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1	Thomas Luther "Luke" Bryan (born July 17, 1976) is a CountryMusic singer. Bryan got his foot in the door in 2004, co-writing the title track to Music/TravisTritt's ''My Honky Tonk History'' and Music/BillyCurrington's 2006 single "Good Directions". From there, Bryan had moderate success with his debut album ''I'll Stay Me'', landing in the top 5 with its debut single "All My Friends Say".
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3	''Doin' My Thing'' was his breakout, producing a number 2 hit in "Do I" (co-written by Dave Haywood and Charles Kelley of Music/LadyAntebellum) and his first chart-toppers, "Rain Is a Good Thing" and "Someone Else Calling You Baby". ''Tailgates & Tanlines'', his third disk, brought him to number 4 with "Country Girl (Shake It for Me)", followed by three more number 1 hits: "I Don't Want This Night to End", "Drunk on You", and "Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye". 2013's ''Crash My Party'' sent all ''six'' of its singles to the top of the country charts, including the oft-reviled "That's My Kind of Night". ''Kill the Lights'' sent "Kick the Dust Up" and "Strip It Down" to the top in rapid succession.
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5	Besides his four albums, Luke has released seven digital extended plays with a spring break theme. Bryan is popular with the younger demographic, as many of his songs have a summer-y theme or feel (most notably "Drunk on You"). He's also one of the main {{Trope Maker}}s of the "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bro-country bro-country]]" SubGenre that proliferated in the late 2010s.
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7	In 2017, he was named as one of three judges for the upcoming 2018 ABC revival of ''Series/AmericanIdol'', with Music/KatyPerry and Music/LionelRichie.
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9	!Albums
10	* ''I'll Stay Me'' (2007)
11	* ''Doin' My Thing'' (2009)
12	* ''Tailgates & Tanlines'' (2011)
13	* ''Crash My Party'' (2013)
14	* ''Kill the Lights'' (2015)
15	* ''What Makes You Country'' (2017)
16	* ''Born Here Live Here Die Here'' (2020)
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18	!Tropes present in Bryan's work:
19	* BreakupSong: "Rollar Coaster" focuses on one that occurs during a spring break vacation.
20	* BrokenWinLossStreak: His 2008 single "Country Man" began a streak of 29 consecutive top 10 singles on the Billboard country charts. The streak was ended in 2022 by the #21-peaking single "Up".
21	** When "What Makes You Country" peaked at #2 in 2019, it became his first single to miss number one on either country chart since "Country Girl (Shake It for Me)" peaked at #4 in 2011.
22	* CoolCar: the "big black jacked up truck" with a "diamond plate tailgate" in "That's My Kind Of Night"
23	* DeadSparks: "Do I":
24	-->Baby, what are we becoming\
25	It feels just like we're always running\
26	Rolling through the motions everyday\
27	I could lean in to hold you, or act like I don't even know you\
28	Seems like you could care less either way\
29	What happened to that girl I used to know\
30	I just want us back to the way we were before
31	* DistractedByTheSexy: "I Don't Want this Night to End": "I don't know what road we're on / Or where we've been / From staring at you, girl".
32	* EarlyBirdCameo: Before having any hits of his own, he co-wrote the title track of Music/TravisTritt's 2004 album ''My Honky Tonk History'' and Music/BillyCurrington's 2006 single "Good Directions".
33	* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: ''I'll Stay Me'' and to a slightly lesser extent ''Doin' My Thing'' have a more pronounced traditional country influence, as opposed to the more pop-rock influenced sound from his third album onward.
34	* ExhortTheDiscJockeySong: "Play it Again", InUniverse with a radio DJ.
35	* GayAesop: "Most People Are Good" hints at this with "I believe you love who you love".
36	* GriefSong: "Drink a Beer" has the narrator lamenting a friend's death by sitting on the edge of a pier that they used to fish on together and drinking a beer.
37	* HappyRain: "Rain Is a Good Thing," in which the narrator lists off all the positives of the rain--namely that it waters the crops that make the alcohol that help put his LoveInterest in the mood.
38	%%* IAmSong: "Country Man".
39	* IntercourseWithYou: "Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye". It doesn't get blatant until the line "Take off your leavin' dress/Let's do what we do best."
40	* ListSong: "Most People Are Good" is full of personal beliefs that the narrator holds, such as "I believe most people are good / And most mamas oughta qualify for sainthood".
41	* LoveIsADrug: "Drunk on You," in which the narrator spending a summer evening with his LoveInterest is the "best buzz [he's] ever gonna find," and he's drunk on her and "high on summertime."
42	* LoveNostalgiaSong:
43	** "Roller Coaster" recalls a spring break fling with a girl in Panama City.
44	** "Sunrise, Sunburn, Sunset" recalls a summertime love that the narrator had while hired to paint a house for the lover's father.
45	* MasterOfTheMixedMessage: "Games," in which the cat-and-mouse game is mutual, but the narrator is getting sick of the ambiguity.
46	* RhymingWithItself: "Kick the Dust Up" repeatedly rhymes "up" with "up."
47	* SexinessScore: "Drunk On You" compliments the LoveInterest with "If you ain't a ten, you're a nine point nine."
48	* ShoutOut: "That's My Kind of Night"'s mixtape has "a little Music/{{Conway\|Twitty}}, a little Music/TPain."
49	* StuffyOldSongsAboutTheButtocks: "Country Girl (Shake It for Me)".
50	* TelephoneSong: "Light It Up" has him constantly checking his phone for a message from his woman after a fight.
51	* TotallyRadical: "Country Man" name-drops Hoobastank, and "That's My Kind of Night" mentions making it rain.
52	* WhatDidIDoLastNight: "All My Friends Say" opens with the narrator waking up in a rocking chair, holding a beer, and being unable to remember how he got there. He calls around to his buddies, and finds out he started [[DrowningMySorrows "shooting doubles"]] when his ex walked into the club the previous night, determined to show how over he was, and it got a little crazy.

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