{"id":974355,"date":"2020-01-10T08:12:25","date_gmt":"2020-01-10T15:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=935975"},"modified":"2020-01-10T08:12:25","modified_gmt":"2020-01-10T15:12:25","slug":"john-legend-releases-new-song-in-time-for-this-is-us-guest-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/john-legend-releases-new-song-in-time-for-this-is-us-guest-spot\/","title":{"rendered":"John Legend Releases New Song in Time for \u2018This Is Us\u2019 Guest Spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/JohnLegend.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/john-legend\">John Legend<\/a> has released a new song, \u201cConversations in the Dark,\u201d with a stripped-down visual depicting home movies of couples.<\/p>\n<p>The single release coincides with Legend\u2019s guest appearance on the award-winning NBC drama series <em>This Is Us<\/em>, where the song will be featured. It\u2019s unknown what role Legend will be playing on the show, but in a recent&nbsp;<em>This Is Us<\/em> promo clip, he was shown onstage behind a piano, leading to speculation that Legend will be playing himself. The episode airs Tuesday, January 14th at 9:00 p.m. ET\/PT.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConversations in The Dark\u201d was written by Legend, Gregg Wattenberg, Jesse Fink, Kellen Pomeranz and Chance Pe\u00f1a and was produced by Gregg Wattenberg and Pom Pom. In the lyrics, Legend expresses his devotion to the one he loves: \u201cI won\u2019t ever try to change you, change you\/I will always want the same you, same you\/Swear on everything I pray to\/That I won\u2019t break your heart.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This past November, Legend released <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/john-legend-a-legendary-christmas-deluxe-904458\/\">a deluxe version<\/a> of his holiday album&nbsp;<em>A Legendary Christmas<\/em>, which included a revamped version of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/john-legend-kelly-clarkson-baby-its-cold-outside-924580\/\">\u201cBaby It\u2019s Cold Outside\u201d<\/a> featuring <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/kelly-clarkson\/\">Kelly Clarkson<\/a>. The updated lyrics were written by Legend and comedian Natasha Rothwell.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/john-legend-conversations-in-the-dark-this-is-us-935975\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Legend has released a new song, \u201cConversations in the Dark,\u201d with a stripped-down visual depicting home movies of couples. The single release coincides with Legend\u2019s guest appearance on the award-winning NBC drama series This Is Us, where the song will be featured. It\u2019s unknown what role Legend will be playing on the show, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-974355","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-27 17:03:36","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=974355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}