{"id":47515,"date":"2026-02-03T04:18:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T09:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/?p=47515"},"modified":"2026-02-03T05:10:55","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T10:10:55","slug":"chris-stapleton-says-people-like-sad-songs-so-they-dont-feel-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2026\/02\/chris-stapleton-says-people-like-sad-songs-so-they-dont-feel-alone\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Stapleton Says People Like Sad Songs So They Don&#8217;t Feel Alone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>People love to listen to sad songs, and\u00a0<strong>Chris Stapleton<\/strong>\u00a0might&#8217;ve\u00a0<strong>cracked the code<\/strong>\u00a0on why during an appearance on\u00a0<strong>Dax Shepard&#8217;s<\/strong>\u00a0<strong><em>&#8220;Armchair Expert&#8221;<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0podcast.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;People like sad songs so they don&#8217;t feel alone. \u00a0And I think maybe all songs are that way, and then we want to feel those emotions together. \u00a0There&#8217;s a communal thing in that.\u00a0And I think that is the magic of music . . . it helps us all be connected in ways that maybe even a conversation, or a look, or touch doesn&#8217;t provide.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WEjMzta_ijo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"People love to listen to sad songs, and\u00a0Chris Stapleton\u00a0might&#8217;ve\u00a0cracked the code\u00a0on why during an appearance on\u00a0Dax Shepard&#8217;s\u00a0&#8220;Armchair Expert&#8221;\u00a0podcast.\u00a0 &#8220;People like sad songs so they don&#8217;t feel alone. \u00a0And I think maybe all songs are that way, and then we want to feel those emotions together. \u00a0There&#8217;s a communal thing in that.\u00a0And I think that is","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":36240,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[6966,340,6527,2163,4103],"class_list":["post-47515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-armchair-expert","tag-chris-stapleton","tag-dax-shepard","tag-podcast","tag-sad-songs"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-12 15:49:33","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country929.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2026\/02\/chris-stapleton-says-people-like-sad-songs-so-they-dont-feel-alone\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47515","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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47515"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47532,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47515\/revisions\/47532"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}