Before all of Blake Shelton’s hits, before he was a superstar coach on “The Voice”… there was the mullet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Back in 2001, when Blake released his debut single, his hair was getting almost as much attention as the song.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Here’s what Blake said about his infamous haircut,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n“Mullets are cool again now, I guess, but back then when I had ’em, they weren’t cool anymore. It was like that phase had already ran out and then no one told me.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
While the Oklahoma native was focused on getting his music out in the world and earning some airtime on country radio, he started to catch some heavy grief around Nashville, especially from one morning radio show host.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\u201cHe would go on his morning show and just, I mean, just, whether I was a part of the show or I\u2019d be in my truck driving, and he would play my song and go, \u2018oh, there\u2019s the worst new mullet in country music.\u2019 I was stubborn enough that I thought, okay, I\u2019m not going to let \u2019em tell me to cut my mullet, but I will grow out the rest of my hair and just have all long hair,\u201d he recalled. \u201cSo that way they didn\u2019t win. I didn\u2019t cut my mullet. I grew the rest of it out to go with it.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n
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