{"id":12110,"date":"2021-01-05T06:11:14","date_gmt":"2021-01-05T11:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/uncategorized\/2021\/01\/blake-shelton-face-backlash-for-new-song\/"},"modified":"2021-01-05T06:11:14","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T11:11:14","slug":"blake-shelton-face-backlash-for-new-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2021\/01\/blake-shelton-face-backlash-for-new-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Blake Shelton Face Backlash For New Song"},"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\/XmdReXKcdx4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Blake Shelton is facing backlash after his performance of a new song called &#8220;Minimum Wage&#8221; during NBC&#8217;s New Year&#8217;s Eve special.<\/p>\n<p>The song was intended as a love song for his fiancee Gwen Stefani, however lyrics like &#8220;Girl, lookin&#8217; at you lookin&#8217; at me that way \/ Can make a man feel rich on minimum wage,&#8221; has upset people because it is sung by a multi-millionaire to a multi-millionaire while others are struggling to even make ends meet these days.<\/p>\n<p>Social media comments included, &#8220;I love his music but the timing for Minimum Wage isn&#8217;t great. With so many people out of work and struggling the song feels a little tone deaf . . .&#8221; and &#8220;Usually don&#8217;t care about this stuff but&#8230;Millionaire country singer Blake Shelton debuting a song on NBC about how love can make them feel rich on minimum wage. Odd timing with millions unemployed and struggling during a pandemic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While Blake hasn&#8217;t commented on the controversy, Brooks &amp; Dunn&#8217;s Ronnie Dunn jumped to his defence on social media.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CJotYilg7D0)\/embed\/captioned\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display:inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height:0;\"  class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span><\/iframe>\n<p>There is no word yet on whether &#8220;Minimum Wage&#8221; will be Blake&#8217;s next radio single.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Blake Shelton is facing backlash after his performance of a new song called &#8220;Minimum Wage&#8221; during NBC&#8217;s New Year&#8217;s Eve special.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":12111,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"No","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[36,39,2603,110],"class_list":["post-12110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-blake-shelton","tag-gwen-stefani","tag-minimum-wage","tag-new-years-eve"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-11 08:53:20","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country959.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2021\/01\/blake-shelton-face-backlash-for-new-song\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12110","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=12110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}