{"id":5749,"date":"2019-04-28T07:00:14","date_gmt":"2019-04-28T11:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/?p=5749"},"modified":"2019-04-29T04:58:57","modified_gmt":"2019-04-29T08:58:57","slug":"carrie-underwood-struggled-to-write-new-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2019\/04\/carrie-underwood-struggled-to-write-new-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Carrie Underwood Struggled To Write New Song"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UbH8OHU9JlQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Carrie Underwood&#8217;s brand new single is called \u201cSouthbound,\u201d and she co-wrote it for her current Cry Pretty album. She sat down with her producer, David Garcia, and Josh Miller and went to work, although she said it wasn&#8217;t easy.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI had the title. I was like, &#8216;This sounds like fun, I think. We can do something fun with this,&#8217; but then you realize how tricky for some reason it is to be a woman and write like kind of a drinking, party, boat song. It\u2019s strange. You wouldn\u2019t think it would be any different, but I\u2019m like for some reason I feel like a guy could get away with saying this line that we just threw out there, but I can\u2019t for some reason. It surprisingly took us a while to write it but by the end of it, it was like, \u2018Well, this is a lot of fun.\u2019 I feel like everybody kind of gravitated towards that one when we were all done with it.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Carrie debuted &#8220;Southbound&#8221; earlier this month live on the ACM Awards, where she was joined by Maddie &amp; Tae and Runaway June, the opening acts on her upcoming Cry Pretty 360 tour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carrie Underwood&#8217;s brand new single is called \u201cSouthbound,\u201d and she co-wrote it, but said it wasn&#8217;t easy.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":5767,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"No","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[96,247,834],"class_list":["post-5749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-carrie-underwood","tag-cry-pretty-tour-360","tag-southbound"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-16 18:59:26","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country929.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2019\/04\/carrie-underwood-struggled-to-write-new-song\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5749","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=5749"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5766,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5749\/revisions\/5766"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}