{"id":31272,"date":"2025-02-14T08:30:14","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T13:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/?p=31272"},"modified":"2025-02-14T05:31:43","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T10:31:43","slug":"luke-combs-uses-rejection-as-motivation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2025\/02\/luke-combs-uses-rejection-as-motivation\/","title":{"rendered":"Luke Combs Uses Rejection As Motivation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Luke Combs is a massive success, so it might\u00a0surprise you to learn that he was once rejected by &#8220;The Voice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But Luke used that as motivation, even putting the rejection letter up on his wall to remind him.<\/p>\n<p>But the reason Luke wasn&#8217;t picked for the singing competition had NOTHING to do with his voice.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what Luke had to say about it.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The letter essentially said, &#8216;Hey, you&#8217;re a great singer, but this is a show and we need entertainment value . . . and we have to be able to tell a story, and you just don&#8217;t really have a story.'&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QNyr7pCQUBE&amp;t=797s\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Luke Combs Hung His Rejection Letter from &#8220;The Voice&#8221; on His Wall for Motivation","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":23120,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3337],"tags":[9375,357,9376,963],"class_list":["post-31272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-60-minutes-australia","tag-luke-combs","tag-rejection","tag-the-voice"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-15 15:26:42","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/chok.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2025\/02\/luke-combs-uses-rejection-as-motivation\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31272","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=31272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}