{"id":13946,"date":"2021-04-07T19:00:35","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T23:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/?p=13946"},"modified":"2021-04-07T09:54:09","modified_gmt":"2021-04-07T13:54:09","slug":"chris-stapleton-talks-pressure-and-expectations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2021\/04\/chris-stapleton-talks-pressure-and-expectations\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Stapleton Talks Pressure And Expectations"},"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\/A3svABDnmio\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>When you have success, pressure and expectations are part of the game, as Chris Stapleton will tell you, but he makes a point to ignore it and instead focus on the connection he&#8217;s making with his audience.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI think it\u2019s perfectly human that you become aware of expectations as you go along, but I very much try to ignore them \u2013 either my own or someone else\u2019s \u2013 of what something should be musically because I\u2019m not sure that\u2019s a healthy space to be making music in, not in a good way anyway. I want the experience of the music and I want to bring an experience to people listening to music in a way that we can have a connection, and in a way that they can have a connection with other human beings. That\u2019s the ultimate goal for me.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Stapleton&#8217;s latest\u00a0album, Starting Over, debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Country Albums Chart, as well as the Americana\/Folk Albums chart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When you have success, pressure and expectations are part of the game, as Chris Stapleton will tell you, but he makes a point to ignore it and instead focus on the connection he&#8217;s making with his audience.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":13952,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"No","footnotes":""},"categories":[3337],"tags":[706,4612],"class_list":["post-13946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-chris-stapleton","tag-starting-over"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-15 15:27:01","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/chok.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2021\/04\/chris-stapleton-talks-pressure-and-expectations\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}