{"id":21067,"date":"2020-01-22T13:58:28","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T20:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1816975"},"modified":"2020-01-22T13:58:28","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T20:58:28","slug":"midland-on-the-dna-of-a-cheatin-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/music-news\/midland-on-the-dna-of-a-cheatin-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Midland on the DNA of a Cheatin\u2019 Song"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:ao:image:cmt.com:687711?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\/bonaguroa\/\" title=\"Posts by Alison Bonaguro\" rel=\"author\">Alison Bonaguro<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"date\"><br \/>\n5m ago<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span> <\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VIPjtKVVa3U?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VIPjtKVVa3U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\t<\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<p>The guys in Midland \u2014 Mark Wystrach, Jess Carson and Cameron Duddy \u2014 didn\u2019t write their new song alone. They brought in a couple more guys to keep things interesting. <\/p>\n<p>And here\u2019s what happened. <\/p>\n<p>Shane McAnally and Josh Osborne flew down to Texas to hang with the band, and together the five of them came up with the idea of a done-me-wrong song with a twist. This time, the girl\u2019s the guilty one. <\/p>\n<p>In a recent conversation with <em>Billboard Country Update<\/em>, here are a few things Wystrach and Duddy had to say about the \u201cCheatin\u2019 Song.\u201d <\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWhat makes that song so interesting is the DNA of it, but also what makes it so dynamic is that it\u2019s a brand-new kind of cheating song. It exists in a modern time. It\u2019s kind of a reflection of what\u2019s happening today.\u201d<\/em> \u2014 Wystrach<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cJess and I took a car ride with Shane and Josh to get some tacos or something down the street from Blackbird (Studios), and Josh sang us that (chorus). We were all really excited just to find time to sit down and figure it out.\u201d<\/em> \u2014 Duddy<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe kind of wanted to do a cheating song where the woman\u2019s got all the power.\u201d<\/em> \u2014 Wystrach<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI don\u2019t like songs about songs. I kind of find them annoying. This one just seemed to dodge the tropes of that and still (be) its own song first. It\u2019s a song about a woman as opposed to a song about a song.\u201d<\/em> \u2014 Duddy<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI don\u2019t know how to say this without sounding kind of like a nerd, but I felt the spirits of Conway and the old-school kind of Nashville sound that was really important to me growing up. I was having almost like a fantasy while I was singing that song, being picked up by those kind of spirits.\u201d<\/em> \u2014 Wystrach<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe live in this kind of constant nostalgia, unlike the generations before us. Our generation is probably in a constant state of nostalgia, and that is what the music sounds like for us.<\/em>\u201d \u2014 Duddy<\/p>\n<div class=\"author\">\n<div class=\"description\"> Alison makes her living loving country music. She&#8217;s based in Chicago, but she&#8217;s always leaving her heart in Nashville. <\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/alisonbonaguro\" target=\"_BLANK\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@alisonbonaguro<\/a> <\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1816975\/midland-on-the-dna-of-a-cheatin-song\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Alison Bonaguro 5m ago Embedded from www.youtube.com. The guys in Midland \u2014 Mark Wystrach, Jess Carson and Cameron Duddy \u2014 didn\u2019t write their new song alone. They brought in a couple more guys to keep things interesting. And here\u2019s what happened. Shane McAnally and Josh Osborne flew down to Texas to hang with the [&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-21067","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 12:26:21","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\/21067","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=21067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}