Best Days Of Your Life: Kellie Pickler

Kellie Pickler is a young, country music artist. She gained her fame as a contestant on American Idol, where she finished in sixth place. In 2006, she released her debut album, Small Town Girl. The album produced three singles that made it on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts. In 2008, She released her second album that includes the single"Best Days of Your Life.” Kellie co-wrote this song with Taylor Swift and it became her first Top 10 hit. On October 26,2009, Kellie Pickler won the title of Country Weekly's poll most beautiful woman in country music for the second year in a row and was nominated for New Artist of The Year at the CMA awards, where she performed her song “Best Days of Your Life.” This song uses many great poetic devices throughout the whole song.

One poetic device used in the song “Best Days of Your Life” is alliteration.. An example of this is “You can’t forget about what we had,” with the repetition of the “W.” Another poetic device is allusion. The listener can hear this in “Take a look at her and do you like what you see? Or do you wish it was me?” It references something beyond just the lyrics. The chorus of the song “Best Days of Your Life” is a motif. When Kellie sings, “you've already had the best days/The best days of your life,” she is using a motif because it is repeated through out the song to keep the theme. A cliché is an overused expression. Kellie Pickler uses a cliché in her song in the phrase “But, I've been told that a cheater/Is always a cheater.” Another device used is narrative. Part of her song tells the story of something that happened, “Yeah, someone told me once, when you were out/She went a little crazy ran her mouth about me/Ain't jealousy funny?” Satire is also a poetic device used through out the song. When the line “I've got my pride, and she's got you...” is sung, it is meant as a satire because it is sarcastic. The sarcasm of this is that the singer is saying, well I have my pride, but the only thing she has is you, which is not a good thing. Lastly, an example of a metaphor is used, “I was head-over-heals.”

The song “Best Days of Your Life” was one of Kellie Pickler’s top hits. The song is about break up and heart break and how the guy in the relationship already had the “Best Days of [his] Life,” and will never stop thinking of his ex. Kellie Pickler became so popular in country music from the show American Idol. She will continue to rise in fame because she knows what people can relate to, and sings songs about it.