{"id":34414,"date":"2026-01-23T04:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T09:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/?p=34414"},"modified":"2026-01-23T05:50:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T10:50:26","slug":"it-only-took-24-minutes-to-write-i-had-some-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2026\/01\/it-only-took-24-minutes-to-write-i-had-some-help\/","title":{"rendered":"It Only Took 24 Minutes To Write &#8220;I Had Some Help&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Ernest<\/strong>&nbsp;dropped a wild songwriting story while chatting on&nbsp;<strong><em>&#8220;The Net Positive Podcast&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><em>&nbsp;<\/em>with&nbsp;<strong>John Crist<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said&nbsp;<strong>Post Malone<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Morgan Wallen&#8217;s<\/strong>&nbsp;smash-hit&nbsp;<strong><em>&#8220;I Had Some Help&#8221;<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;took just 24 minutes to write.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The song debuted at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and stayed there for six weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;If we&#8217;re all honest with ourselves and we&#8217;re all good creatives, the best songs don&#8217;t take long. There&#8217;s a 24-minute voice note of\u00a0&#8216;I Had Some Help&#8217;\u00a0from start to finish.&#8221; <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>That same night, Morgan and Post recorded their parts on the demo. \u00a0And then on their way to the bar, they drove around blasting it.\u00a0 He said they knew immediately they had something special.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Green Room (w\/ ERNEST) | Net Positive with John Crist\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8TCfUVPj5hQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ernest&nbsp;dropped a wild songwriting story while chatting on&nbsp;&#8220;The Net Positive Podcast&#8221;&nbsp;with&nbsp;John Crist. He said&nbsp;Post Malone&nbsp;and&nbsp;Morgan Wallen&#8217;s&nbsp;smash-hit&nbsp;&#8220;I Had Some Help&#8221;&nbsp;took just 24 minutes to write. The song debuted at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and stayed there for six weeks. &#8220;If we&#8217;re all honest with ourselves and we&#8217;re all good creatives, the best songs don&#8217;t","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":28637,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[1620,5472,171,182,1209],"class_list":["post-34414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-ernest","tag-i-had-some-help","tag-morgan-wallen","tag-post-malone","tag-songwriting"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-21 19:29:13","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country959.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2026\/01\/it-only-took-24-minutes-to-write-i-had-some-help\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34414","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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34414"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34420,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34414\/revisions\/34420"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}