I Wanna Be a Cowboy, Baby!
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| "I Wanna Be a Cowboy, Baby!" | ||||
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| Single by CMAT | ||||
| from the album Diet Baby and If My Wife New I'd Be Dead | ||||
| Released | 23 September 2020 | |||
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| Length | 5:10 | |||
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| Songwriter | Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson | |||
| Producer | Oli Deakin | |||
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| "I Wanna Be a Cowboy, Baby!" music video on YouTube | ||||
"I Wanna Be a Cowboy, Baby!" is a song by Irish singer-songwriter CMAT. It was released on 23 September 2020 as the third single from her debut extended play Diet Baby (2021).[1] It was also included on her debut studio album If My Wife New I'd Be Dead.[2] It was written by CMAT and produced Oli Deakin. The track explores the anxiety around feeling restrained and dissatisfied with your life and wishing for more freedom, purpose and fulfilment.
Discussing the content of the song, CMAT explained, "It's mainly about urban isolation, about having all of the freedom and resources to do whatever you want but still choosing to do nothing out of deeply-embedded social anxiety and detachment from your own emotions. Sometimes you just turn around and ask yourself, 'Why is my life crap? I don't do anything, Why not?'. I never really have an answer to that, but I wish it was different. I want to be a cowboy instead."[3] She stated that the idea of the song came to her when she was living alone in Manchester and was inspired by a Vine clip of a man drinking beer in the playground, which she felt was "representative of pure freedom", and her perception that the men in classic Western films were always afforded more freedom than the women, noting "they are always being told that the pursuit of independence is a reckless act which jeopardises your safety. I'm sick of it. I just wanna be a cowboy."[4]