Miranda Lambert is a country music artist who gained her fame as a finalist on the show Nashville Star, in 2003. She finished in third place and signed with Epic Records. Miranda made her debut with her first album Kerosene in 2005. Her first single was "Me and Charlie Talking." This album also produced the singles "Bring Me Down", "Kerosene”, and "New Strings." All four songs made the top 40 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts. After her first album, Miranda Lambert switched to Columbia records to make her second album, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, released in 2007. Her third album was called Revolution, and was realesed in September 2009. The album's single, "White Liar”, debuted at #50 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs chart in Agust 2009 and by February 2010, "White Liar" became Lambert's highest-charting single reaching #2 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Miranda Lambert is the third female country singer to have three records debut at #1 on Billboard Country Albums. “White liar” shows great uses of peoetic devices throughout the song.
The song “white liar” is about love and cheating in a small town. One poetic device that is used frequently is alliteration. Examples of these are “tongue like turpentine”, “you better be careful what you do”, I wouldn’t wanna be in your shoes”, and “cause my cousin”. All of these show alliteration because they are repetition of the same sound at the beinging of the words. Also, Miranda Lambert uses a lot of similes in her song, “the truth comes out a little at a time and it spreads just like a fire” , is a similes because it uses the word “like” to compare the truth and fire to each other. “Slips off your tongue like turpentine” is also a simlie. “Hey white liar” is a motif and is repeated frequently throughout the song to keep the theme. Imagery is also a popular poetic device used frequently throughtout the song. “And walked some lady to her car” is an example of imagery, “with a red head named Bernice” is too, and “spreads just like a fire” is also imagery. Lastly, an allusion is used in the song “white liar” in the line “spreads just like a fire.”
“White liar” was wirtten in both first and second person. The song was a success for Miranda Lambert and became popular right away. Miranda’s songs are about all diffferent things, making it easy for people to relate to her music. Miranda Lambert is a great country singer and I think through this song, people can realize how cheating can mess up a realtionship and how easy it is for the other person to find out, when you live in a small town.
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