{"id":8624,"date":"2020-05-12T10:03:02","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T14:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/uncategorized\/2020\/05\/thomas-rhett-song-was-never-suppose-to-be-a-single\/"},"modified":"2020-05-12T10:03:02","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T14:03:02","slug":"thomas-rhett-song-was-never-suppose-to-be-a-single","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2020\/05\/thomas-rhett-song-was-never-suppose-to-be-a-single\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Rhett Song Was Never Suppose To Be A Single"},"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\/8YuWAZmD0aU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Thomas Rhett has two big hits flying up the country charts these days &#8212; &#8220;Beer Can&#8217;t Fix&#8221; with Jon Pardi and &#8220;Be A Light,&#8221; which features Reba McEntire, Keith Urban, Hillary Scott from Lady Antebellum, and contemporary Christian singer Chris Tomlin. &#8220;Be A Light&#8221; was never intended to be a radio single, but rather just a message that needed to be heard by the world during this unsettling time.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI wrote this song last year. I\u2019d had this title written in my phone, \u2018in a world full of hate the light,\u2019 and I think it came a little bit from the Bible verse talking about \u2018a lamp on a hill should not be hidden\u2019 \u2013 just being a light in a dark place. And for some reason I just was looking at Instagram and Twitter and all this stuff, just seeing so much hatred and people commentin\u2019 on people\u2019s stuff, just being super negative, and it drove me nuts. And I think at this point in time, I was like, man instead of like addressing the meanness and the negativity, why don\u2019t we just address for people just to be kind.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Proceeds from the song benefit MusiCares COVID-19 relief fund.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thomas Rhett says &#8220;Be A Light&#8221; was never intended to be a radio single, but rather just a message that needed to be heard by the world during this unsettling time.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":8625,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"No","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[1758,1708,823,70,364,507,115],"class_list":["post-8624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-be-a-light","tag-chris-tomlin","tag-hillary-scott","tag-keith-urban","tag-lady-antebellum","tag-reba-mcentire","tag-thomas-rhett"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-10 20:00:37","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\/05\/thomas-rhett-song-was-never-suppose-to-be-a-single\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8624","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=8624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}