{"id":75380,"date":"2020-06-26T10:00:16","date_gmt":"2020-06-26T14:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/?p=75380"},"modified":"2020-06-26T06:17:55","modified_gmt":"2020-06-26T10:17:55","slug":"eric-churchs-new-single-was-ahead-of-its-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2020\/06\/eric-churchs-new-single-was-ahead-of-its-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Church&#8217;s New Single Was Ahead Of Its Time"},"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\/V8KRC5KH7HU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Eric Church isn&#8217;t afraid to ruffle a few feathers with his new song, &#8220;Stick That in Your Country Song&#8221;, which is a call for more substance in country music.<\/p>\n<p>He sings about poverty in Detroit, drugs and gangs in Baltimore, young veterans having problems when they return home, and underpaid, overworked teachers.<\/p>\n<p>He doesn&#8217;t call anyone out, but his point is to make more music about real-life issues, and &#8220;take that one to #1.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Although the message seems very current, Eric said it was written before the COVID-19 pandemic and the murder of George Floyd, but it was\u00a0truly ahead of its time.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI\u2019ve never had a song in my career that was a harbinger of things to come. When we recorded \u2018Stick That in Your Country Song,\u2019 we had a booming economy, and I remember thinking when I did it, \u2018I\u2019m not sure how relevant this is for right now,&#8217; and within about 30 days, the world changed, and truth be told \u2013 100% honesty \u2013 I had a different single picked out as the first single, and then the world kept changing and it kept bringing itself almost like a magnet back to this song.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The video for &#8220;Stick That In Your Country Song&#8221; will be released on Friday, June 26th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eric Church&#8217;s &#8220;Stick That in Your Country Song&#8221; Is a Call for Substance in Country Music.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":75387,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"No","footnotes":""},"categories":[464],"tags":[4278,4279],"class_list":["post-75380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-erich-church","tag-stick-that-in-your-country-song"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-18 09:08:10","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/cknx.ca\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2020\/06\/eric-churchs-new-single-was-ahead-of-its-time\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}