"Put a Girl in It" is the title of a song co-written by singer Rhett Akins

Rhett Akins

Thomas Rhett Akins Sr. is an American country singer and songwriter. Signed to Decca Records between 1994 and 1997, he released two albums for the label , followed by 1998's What Livin's All About on MCA Nashville. Friday Night in Dixie was released in 2002 on Audium Entertainment...

 along with Dallas Davidson

Dallas Davidson

Dallas Davidson is an American country music singer-songwriter.Davidson moved to Nashville, Tennessee in 2004 and joined Broadcast Music Incorporated for performing rights representation and signed a publishing deal with Big Borassa Music, which is administered worldwide by Third Tier Music.Trace...

 and Ben Hayslip

Ben Hayslip

Ben Hayslip is an American country music songwriter. Hayslip attended Evans High School near Augusta, Georgia where he was an All-State first baseman leading the Evans baseball team to the 1988 Georgia state championship...

. The song was recorded by American country music

Country music

Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...

 duo Brooks & Dunn

Brooks & Dunn

Brooks & Dunn was an American country music duo consisting of Kix Brooks and Ronnie Dunn, who were both vocalists and songwriters. They were paired by record producer Tim DuBois in 1990. Before the duo's foundation, both members of the duo were solo recording artists...

 on their 2007 album Cowboy Town

Cowboy Town

Cowboy Town is the tenth and final studio album by country music duo Brooks & Dunn. It was released October 2, 2007 on Arista Nashville. Produced by the duo and Tony Brown, the album has accounted for four singles on the Billboard country singles charts: "Proud of the House We Built", "God Must...

, and was released in May 2008 as that album's third single. It reached number 3 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs chart.

Content

The song is an up-tempo accompanied by electric guitar

Electric guitar

An electric guitar is a guitar that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its metal strings into electric audio signals. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker...

. Its lyrics tell of various situations that, according to the narrator, are "nothing" until "you put a girl in it".

Reception

Kevin John Coyne, reviewing the song for Country Universe, gave it a B rating. He said that it is "a pandering attempt to rangle as much female adulation as possible from the predominantly female country music listening demographic." But he also added that "the song is ultimately fun and Ronnie Dunn’s vocal performance is admirably strong."

Chart performance

"Put a Girl in It" debuted at #48 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs

Hot Country Songs

Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales...

chart for the week of May 10, 2008. Twenty-five of the radio stations monitored by Billboard added this song, boosting it to #37 the next week, and it became the most added song of that week.

Chart (2008)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs	3
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	54
Canadian Hot 100	62