{"id":38488,"date":"2024-03-12T05:55:58","date_gmt":"2024-03-12T09:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/?p=38488"},"modified":"2024-03-11T11:41:49","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T15:41:49","slug":"hardy-said-bro-country-died-because-of-chris-stapleton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2024\/03\/hardy-said-bro-country-died-because-of-chris-stapleton\/","title":{"rendered":"Hardy Said &#8220;Bro Country&#8221; Died Because Of Chris Stapleton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Bro Country&#8221; was huge for most of the last decade, led by Florida Georgia Line, Luke Bryan, and Jason Aldean.<\/p>\n<p>But according to Hardy, &#8220;Bro Country&#8221; died the day Chris Stapleton sang with Justin Timberlake at the 2015 CMAs.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jZG82iqP06A\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>He talked about it back in a podcast in January.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Bro-Country was like a professional wrestler era. And every single was their theme song walking out . . . And everybody was fit, and good looking. &#8220;And the moment that it changed was when Chris Stapleton sang on stage with Justin Timberlake. He was the first dude that was popping off and had a completely different sound.&#8221; Then he said, &#8220;it immediately broke the mold of what you have to look like. And then two or three years later, Luke Combs came out and then it just busted wide open with a bunch of [normal] looking dudes. And he saved the best for last, &#8220;And then all of us were like, [Eff] yeah, I can get a record deal now.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[tiktok url=&#8221;https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@tenyeartown\/video\/7325144083712724267&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;Bro Country&#8221; was huge for most of the last decade, led by Florida Georgia Line, Luke Bryan, and Jason Aldean.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":38117,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[5320,340,608,1616],"class_list":["post-38488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-bro-country","tag-chris-stapleton","tag-hardy","tag-justin-timberlake"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-12 20:51:35","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country929.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2024\/03\/hardy-said-bro-country-died-because-of-chris-stapleton\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38488","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=38488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38496,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38488\/revisions\/38496"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}