{"id":482508,"date":"2019-02-21T08:02:27","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T15:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=797000"},"modified":"2019-02-21T08:02:27","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T15:02:27","slug":"hear-rita-wilsons-evocative-new-song-throw-me-a-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/hear-rita-wilsons-evocative-new-song-throw-me-a-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear Rita Wilson\u2019s Evocative New Song \u2018Throw Me a Party\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Rita Wilson<\/a> stares down her own mortality on the inspiring new single, \u201cThrow Me a Party.\u201d Wilson carries the buoyant tempo with her soft croon that seems to float above a pristine blend of piano, drums and guitar. The lyrics, cowritten by Wilson, Liz Rose and Sugarland\u2019s Kristian Bush, reflect that balance with pain and resolve. \u201cSo when I\u2019m gone throw me a party\/You should dance as if I was there\/Don\u2019t be sad or be broken-hearted\/Just send your voices up in the air.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cParty\u201d was inspired by a heart-rending conversation Wilson had with her husband, Tom Hanks, after she was diagnosed with breast cancer. \u201cI had so many different thoughts,\u201d Wilson said. \u201cYou\u2019re scared, anxious, you think about your own mortality. So I had a serious discussion with my husband that if anything happens, what I\u2019d like is a party, a celebration.\u201d<\/p>\n

The poignant discussion that led to \u201cThrow Me a Party\u201d also set the tone for\u00a0Halfway to Home<\/em>, her fourth solo album after 2018\u2019s Bigger Picture,\u00a0<\/em>which arrives March 29th.\u00a0Much of the new LP was written during a five-day writers\u2019 camp, where Wilson also worked with a host of prominent songwriters known for their powerful, female-driven narratives like Mozella (Madonna, Kelly Clarkson), Mitch Allan (Demi Lovato) and Kara DioGuardi (Pink). The album was co-produced by Taylor Swift\u2019s longtime producer, Nathan Chapman.<\/p>\n

In that vein, Halfway<\/em> to Home<\/em> finds Wilson pulling from musical traditions that revere deep storytelling (Southern California rock, classic Nashville country), which was a hallmark for her growing up. \u201cThe thing that grabbed me in music were the stories \u2013 like\u00a0\u2018Ode to Billie Joe,\u2019\u00a0which is full\u00a0of mystery, intrigue and tension, or the Beatles\u2019 \u2018She\u2019s Leaving Home,\u2019 which made me\u00a0wonder about each person in that story; the mother, the father, and the girl,\u201d said Wilson. \u201cEven in those songs, though, there was still a great hook,\u00a0where\u00a0you\u2019re\u00a0able to sing along and\u00a0lose\u00a0yourself in a moment.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wilson has performed a handful of shows in 2019 already, though her only currently scheduled concert is a set at Stagecoach<\/a>, which takes place April 26th through 28th in Indio, California. The crowd will be one of the biggest Wilson has ever played to, and she touched on how significant performing live has been to her continued evolution as an artist.<\/p>\n

\u201cI learn from [the audience] as much as I learn from anything \u2013 they\u2019re\u00a0as much a part of the creative process as anyone,\u201d she said. \u201cAs a creative person, you just do what you do and you have to stay out of the results. You hope people respond, but you can\u2019t change yourself or try to follow something \u2013 tell the truth, tell your stories, and hope that people find it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Rita Wilson stares down her own mortality on the inspiring new single, \u201cThrow Me a Party.\u201d Wilson carries the buoyant tempo with her soft croon that seems to float above a pristine blend of piano, drums and guitar. The lyrics, cowritten by Wilson, Liz Rose and Sugarland\u2019s Kristian Bush, reflect that balance with pain and […]<\/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":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-482508","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 09:03:53","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":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}