{"id":10717,"date":"2020-10-13T05:28:02","date_gmt":"2020-10-13T09:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/uncategorized\/2020\/10\/jay-demarcus-almost-quit-rascal-flatts-over-music-video\/"},"modified":"2020-10-13T05:28:02","modified_gmt":"2020-10-13T09:28:02","slug":"jay-demarcus-almost-quit-rascal-flatts-over-music-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2020\/10\/jay-demarcus-almost-quit-rascal-flatts-over-music-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Jay DeMarcus Almost Quit Rascal Flatts Over Music Video"},"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\/NfKFjqi2j8w\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Rascal Flatts have lasted for 20 years as a band, but that memorable milestone almost didn&#8217;t happen.<\/p>\n<p>Jay DeMarcus reveals that he nearly walked away from the trio when their eyebrow-raising &#8220;I Melt&#8221; video was being shot back in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>You might recall, it&#8217;s the one in which Joe Don Rooney is shown from behind as he was naked in the shower.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;There was no discussion. I didn\u2019t even know there was a nude scene in it. I stormed off the set because I was very angry that we were gonna put nudity in our video. That is the truth. I almost quit the band that day, because our manager, Trey Turner, did not tell me, and they sprung it on me at the shoot, and I thought, &#8216;My Lord, I\u2019ll never be able to go back to Lee University again or stick my head back in a Baptist church anywhere once this comes out.&#8217; So, I didn\u2019t know that it was goin\u2019 down, cause I think they knew what my reaction was gonna be.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Jay attended the very conservative Lee University, a private Christian College in southeastern Tennessee. During college, he was a member of a Christian music group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rascal Flatts have lasted for 20 years as a band, but that memorable milestone almost didn&#8217;t happen.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":10718,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"No","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[2426,81,1040,82],"class_list":["post-10717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-i-melt","tag-jay-demarcus","tag-joe-don-rooney","tag-rascal-flatts"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-10 13:59:35","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country959.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2020\/10\/jay-demarcus-almost-quit-rascal-flatts-over-music-video\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}