{"id":15311,"date":"2021-07-07T19:00:02","date_gmt":"2021-07-07T23:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/?p=15311"},"modified":"2021-07-07T11:20:24","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T15:20:24","slug":"famous-friends-song-title-is-misleading-on-purpose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2021\/07\/famous-friends-song-title-is-misleading-on-purpose\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Famous Friends&#8221; Song Title Is Misleading On Purpose"},"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\/qpMOx2Ul9RA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Chris Young and Kane Brown claim the top of the Mediabase country radio chart this week with their collaboration, \u201cFamous Friends.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This marks Chris\u2019 12th career Number One single and the 6th for his labelmate Kane.<\/p>\n<p>The song went to #1 a few weeks ago in Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Chris co-wrote the autobiographical song about Rutherford County, where Chris grew up in Tennessee, and Kane\u2019s hometown of Hamilton County along with Nashville\u2019s Davidson County \u2013 a.k.a. Music City and namechecks some of their real-life friends who are famous but only to them.<\/p>\n<p>Chris said the title of the song is misleading, and that was done on purpose.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not what you think when you first see the title. It&#8217;s like &#8216;Famous Friends,&#8217; Chris Young and Kane Brown. I wanted everybody to go, &#8216;What is this gonna be about?&#8217; And then when they hear the song it&#8217;s supposed to be, you know, we&#8217;re really taking the hat off to all the people that might not be famous to everybody else but they&#8217;re famous to you, they&#8217;re famous to your hometown, they&#8217;re famous to your friends that you know, and that was something that we thought everybody could relate to.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cFamous Friends\u201d is Chris and Kane\u2019s first collaboration since working together on Kane\u2019s 2017 song \u201cSetting the Night On Fire.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chris Young says the title of the song &#8220;Famous Friends&#8221; with Kane Brown is misleading, and that was done on purpose.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":15324,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"No","footnotes":""},"categories":[3337],"tags":[51,4143,3411],"class_list":["post-15311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-chris-young","tag-famous-friends","tag-kane-brown"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-12 18:49:20","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\/07\/famous-friends-song-title-is-misleading-on-purpose\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15311","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=15311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}