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Blake Shelton shared the real reason he got rid of his mullet.
Shelton caught up with Bobby Bones on a new episode of BobbyCast, which is now available to watch on Netflix. Bobby Bones asked the country superstar about the hairstyle he sported in the early years of his career, primarily in the 1990s and into the early 2000s (a question “I figured you get asked all the time,” he said).
“I had that for the better part of my teenage years and on into my twenties, but I really only had the actual mullet for the release of my first single, which was in 2001,” Shelton reflected on BobbyCast. “At the time, I didn’t realize that — mullets are cool again now, I guess. But back then when I had them, they weren’t cool anymore, you know. It was like that phase had already ran out and no one told me. So, my first single came out with a video and there I was with a mullet.
“There was a guy in Nashville that had a morning radio show,” he continued. “I’d be in my truck driving and he would play my song. ‘Oh, there’s the worst new mullet in country music,’ you know? And so, I started thinking, ‘well, I got to do something about this.’ But I was stubborn enough that I thought, ‘OK…I’m not going to let him tell me to cut my mullet, but I will grow out the rest of my hair and just have all long hair,’ you know? So, that way they didn’t win. I didn’t cut my mullet. I just, I grew the rest of it out to go with it.”
Throughout their nearly hour-long conversation, Bobby and Shelton chatted about the Oklahoma-born country artist’s run on The Voice, his life with wife Gwen Stefani and his three stepsons, stories throughout his career and more. Watch Shelton tell the story of his former signature hairstyle below, and find the full BobbyCast episode on iHeartRadio and on Netflix.