{"id":16799,"date":"2019-07-19T08:06:24","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T14:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1809290"},"modified":"2019-07-19T08:06:24","modified_gmt":"2019-07-19T14:06:24","slug":"brett-young-brings-the-heartache-to-dont-wanna-write-this-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/music-news\/brett-young-brings-the-heartache-to-dont-wanna-write-this-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Brett Young Brings the Heartache to \u201cDon\u2019t Wanna Write This Song\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:ao:image:cmt.com:674130?width=1200&amp;height=675&amp;.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"byline\">by <span class=\"author\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/author\/shelburnec\/\" title=\"Posts by Craig Shelburne\" rel=\"author\">Craig Shelburne<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"date\">18m ago<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Brett Young is one of country music\u2019s top ballad singers and this version of \u201cI Don\u2019t Wanna Write This Song\u201d further establishes that reputation.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5xWavaZAa5Q?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5xWavaZAa5Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p>In announcing the video, Young sent out the following message: \u201cI wrote \u2019Mercy\u2019 with Sean McConnell and am such a massive fan of both his and Zach Crowell\u2019s, so going into this writing session there was already an unspoken pressure of catching lightning twice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBelieve it or not, this song had been with me for almost ten years, but when we started reworking it together and digging into the story and melody, we hit a crossroads and knew this wasn\u2019t your typical break-up song, so that\u2019s when we made the decision to let her go. It felt so dark, emotional and unlike anything I\u2019ve ever written before. The finality of everything in this song is so crushing, it\u2019s definitely unexpected on first listen and explores heartbreak on a whole different level.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1809290\/brett-young-brings-the-heartache-to-dont-wanna-write-this-song\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Craig Shelburne 18m ago Brett Young is one of country music\u2019s top ballad singers and this version of \u201cI Don\u2019t Wanna Write This Song\u201d further establishes that reputation. Embedded from www.youtube.com. [embedded content] In announcing the video, Young sent out the following message: \u201cI wrote \u2019Mercy\u2019 with Sean McConnell and am such a massive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16799","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 15:26:35","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":"KRKY Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}