After 10 years in the music business and 20 #1 hits, Thomas Rhett reached a place in his life where he is content with who he is as a person, and comfortable enough to create the kind of music that comes naturally to him.<\/p>\n
Thomas is definitely not resting on his laurels or coasting at this point, he\u2019s just more confident about trusting his gut and his creative instincts to make the best music he can make.<\/p>\n
\u201cI do feel like I spent a lot of my career trying to chase or trying to be different for the sake of being different. It was authentic, but it was also like, how can I push the boundary enough to where someone will notice that? And I feel like on Country Again: Side A I kinda got to a point, I was like, what do I like to do? What comes naturally out of me? And it really is grabbing a guitar and writin\u2019 ballads about my life. But then there came a point of like, well how do I do that without being boring, you know what I\u2019m sayin\u2019? How do I talk about being a dad that can also relate to a lot of dads in the world, but also makes \u2018em laugh and make \u2018em smile? And so, the challenge is still there to always be better, but there\u2019s also a part of me that goes, I don\u2019t wanna chase anymore. I don\u2019t wanna try to be somebody else. I don\u2019t wanna try to be somebody that I\u2019m not. I kinda just want to sit down and write songs, and if that song happens to sound a little bit offkilter from the genre, then that\u2019s what it is, you know. But if it happens to hit the nail on the head, then that\u2019s what it was too.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After 10 years in the music business and 20 #1 hits, Thomas Rhett reached a place in his life where he is content with who he is, and comfortable enough to create the kind of music that comes naturally to him.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":33479,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[54],"class_list":["post-33765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-thomas-rhett"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-12 15:36:37","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country929.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2023\/03\/thomas-rhett-no-longer-has-to-chase-songs\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33766,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33765\/revisions\/33766"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}