I Enjoy Being a Girl

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"I Enjoy Being a Girl" is a lighthearted show tune from the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical *Flower Drum Song*, celebrating traditional feminine identity with playful, tongue-in-cheek lyrics.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf show tune
song
basedOnWork Flower Drum Song
surface form: Flower Drum Song (stage musical)
composer Richard Rodgers
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
firstPerformanceInWork Flower Drum Song
genre musical theatre
show tune
hasCreator Oscar Hammerstein II
Richard Rodgers
hasTitle I Enjoy Being a Girl self-link
language English
lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II
lyricStyle playful
tongue-in-cheek
musical Flower Drum Song
notableFor celebration of traditional feminine identity
use in discussions of gender representation in musical theatre
partOfWork Flower Drum Song
performingArtsForm Broadway musical song
theatricalContext celebrates traditional feminine identity
theme femininity
gender roles
self-acceptance
tonality lighthearted

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Flower Drum Song notableSong I Enjoy Being a Girl
Shy Baldwin notableWork I Enjoy Being a Girl
this entity surface form: I Enjoy Being a Girl (tour within the series)
Pat Suzuki notableSong I Enjoy Being a Girl
I Enjoy Being a Girl hasTitle I Enjoy Being a Girl self-link