{"id":29431,"date":"2024-09-06T05:55:40","date_gmt":"2024-09-06T09:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/?p=29431"},"modified":"2024-09-05T11:14:23","modified_gmt":"2024-09-05T15:14:23","slug":"keith-urban-on-country-music-going-mainstream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2024\/09\/keith-urban-on-country-music-going-mainstream\/","title":{"rendered":"Keith Urban On Country Music Going Mainstream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Keith Urban was recently interviewed by &#8220;The Project&#8221;, a nightly news program in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>He was on the show promoting his new album, &#8220;High&#8221;, which drops September 20th, and he had some thoughts on why Country music is so successful and mainstream these days.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a very story-oriented, relatable genre, and it always has been.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Then Keith was asked, &#8220;So did something change?&#8221; He responded.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It&#8217;s the confluence of everything . . . You&#8217;ve got artists that have grown up with so many different kinds of things, all these influences are coming into the genre . . . Country&#8217;s had this ability to embrace pop elements and then when it kinda starts to lose its way, it contracts back to more pure country.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s a really interesting thought. Country takes in as much Pop as it can until it becomes unbearable, and then there&#8217;s a rebellion and we go back to our roots.<\/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\/TUJzbuYWqdg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Keith Urban was recently interviewed by &#8220;The Project&#8221;, a nightly news program in Australia.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":27697,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3337],"tags":[3339,8903,22,8904],"class_list":["post-29431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-australia","tag-high","tag-keith-urban","tag-the-project"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-15 13:03:03","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/chok.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2024\/09\/keith-urban-on-country-music-going-mainstream\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29431","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=29431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}