Because I absolutely loved Blake Shelton on The Voice. He seemed like a really genuine, funny, sweet guy, and of course I loved his man crush on Adam Levine. But then I checked out Evil Beet here to see if he had his own category, and he did, but if just featured one awful story about Blake using his Twitter to make an extremely homophobic parody of the Shania Twain classic, “Any Man of Mine,” and I didn’t love him so much anymore.

But now he’s done this big interview with Parade, and I just don’t know what to think anymore.

On his favorite hobby, drunk Tweeting: “It’s just a way to say something ridiculous. Yeah, I drink a lot,” says the singer, whose beverage of choice is Bacardi rum mixed with Crystal Light, “but I’m not drunk every night.”

On that homophobic Tweet: “Shoot, man, I love everybody! I don’t have time to hate,” he says today. Still, joking comes naturally to him: When New York State made same-sex marriage legal in June and someone tweeted to get his reaction, he shot back in Sheltonesque fashion, “I’m very gay about it!!” All kidding aside, he sincerely favors the right of same-sex couples to wed. “I have a life,” he says, “and I want everyone else to have one, too.”

On why he joined The Voice: “I said, ‘I’d be stupid not to do this.’” The deciding factor? The chance to ensconce himself in one of the show’s distinctive revolving chairs. “They’re goofy, but I thought that would be fun, sitting in those big red chairs like you’re the king of the mountain,” he says.

Bacardi and Crystal Light? Goodness, sounds like somebody needs to be a good friend and pass that little drink tip along to Christina Aguilera, huh? But for real, Blake seems like the kind of guy I’ve known my whole life, that really nice Southern gentleman type who is happy and carefree and delightful to be around until something happens, like another dude accidentally brushes hands with him and he has to do that whole “whoa, dude, I’m not gay, bro! Not that there’s anything wrong with that. But I’m not. I love ladies. It’s ok if you’re gay. But I’m not. Not gay. Love ladies,” and eventually he just starts sounding like a robot that’s powering down: “not … gay … ladies … vagina … not gay …” Which I’m pretty used to.

What do you think about Blake nowadays?

6 Responses to “How Do We Feel About Blake Shelton?”

1. fleefloo says:

   August 8, 2011 at 5:00 pm

   He struck me that way at first, too, but he likes to kiss other guys and seems very huggy and not at all averse to being climbed on*, so I don’t know. The more he talks, the more I tend to believe his explanation that he did intend the tweet to be from a woman’s point of view and just didn’t think about the implications. Of course, that’s problematic in its own way, but not as bad as how it originally came across.

   * I bring photographic evidence!
   http://countryaircheck.com/images/upload/image/library/blakebig123.JPG
   http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lp8hqeRjAj1qdmh0po1_500.png
   http://cbswdsy.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/blake.jpg
   http://picklemedia1.scrippsnetworks.com/pickle_media1/media/Great_American_Country/110401/Photo_Video_69882589409670847172276_orig.jpg

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2. fleefloo says:

   August 8, 2011 at 5:02 pm

   I thought so at first, too, but he likes to kiss other guys and seems very huggy and not at all averse to being climbed on*, so I don’t know. The more he talks, the more I tend to believe his explanation that he did intend the tweet to be from a woman’s point of view and just didn’t think about the implications. Of course, that’s problematic in its own way, but not as bad as how it originally came across.

   * I bring photographic evidence!
   http://countryaircheck.com/images/upload/image/library/blakebig123.JPG
   http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lp8hqeRjAj1qdmh0po1_500.png
   http://cbswdsy.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/blake.jpg
   http://picklemedia1.scrippsnetworks.com/pickle_media1/media/Great_American_Country/110401/Photo_Video_69882589409670847172276_orig.jpg?0

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   • as says:

     August 9, 2011 at 12:37 am

     huggy just made me think of this interview

     Adam Levine & Blake Shelton Find Humor On ‘The Voice’ – Access Hollywood http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poBOtgKGwzs

     these 2 are so cute

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3. Muttley Macclad says:

   August 8, 2011 at 9:37 pm

   Better to be homophobic than homophyllic

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4. as says:

   August 9, 2011 at 12:35 am

   lol who cares. honestly it didnt even sound that bad to me, just like some light hearted fun. and he said it wasn’t homophobic so there you go.

   love the voice so much better then idol.

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5. nicole peach says:

   August 9, 2011 at 7:14 am

   I just love anyone who can admit they drink a lot…. My heart is theirs forever….

   And my skin crawls when I hear someone talk about working their “program.”

   I suppose that makes me just as judgmental, ironically….

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