{"id":21173,"date":"2020-01-29T07:57:19","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T14:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1817370"},"modified":"2020-01-29T07:57:19","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T14:57:19","slug":"how-this-one-jason-aldean-song-proves-that-opposites-dont-always-attract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/music-news\/how-this-one-jason-aldean-song-proves-that-opposites-dont-always-attract\/","title":{"rendered":"How This One Jason Aldean Song Proves That Opposites Don\u2019t Always Attract"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:ao:image:cmt.com:688105?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 \/>\n24m ago<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span> <\/p>\n<p>In some cases, sure, opposites attract. But when Jason Aldean shares the story behind his song \u201cChampagne Town\u201d off his album <em>9<\/em>, it seems like there are some circumstances where they absolutely do not. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think \u2019Champagne Town\u2019 is just that story of maybe somebody being with somebody that probably (is) a little out of your league,\u201d Aldean shared on social media. \u201cThe song says it best: he\u2019s whiskey and she\u2019s champagne.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/H8597tnkpBs?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\/H8597tnkpBs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\t<\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<p>Before Aldean released the album, his ninth, obviously, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1812715\/jason-aldean-on-the-8-that-came-before-9\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">he shared with me<\/a> everything he\u2019d learned from the eight that came before <em>9<\/em>. And one of those lessons was that, when you\u2019re firing on all cylinders, really cool songs come to you. And \u201cChampagne Town\u201d is the perfect example of that. It was penned by Matt Dragstrem and Josh Thompson, two of Nashville\u2019s most prolific songwriters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSometimes, it\u2019s just like that in a relationship,\u201d he added. \u201cYou know what I mean? You\u2019re just two different people, man, and it doesn\u2019t work out. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou kind of find yourself sometimes stuck in something like that where it\u2019s just like, \u2019This doesn\u2019t make sense.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Check out the story behind &#8220;Champagne Town&#8221;. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VdqiSF2vAd\">https:\/\/t.co\/VdqiSF2vAd<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pbH5ozXcZO\">pic.twitter.com\/pbH5ozXcZO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jason Aldean (@Jason_Aldean) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Jason_Aldean\/status\/1222258448269807617?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 28, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The next stop on Aldean\u2019s We Back tour is on Saturday (Feb. 1) in Jacksonville, FL.<\/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\/1817370\/how-this-one-jason-aldean-song-proves-that-opposites-dont-always-attract\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Alison Bonaguro 24m ago In some cases, sure, opposites attract. But when Jason Aldean shares the story behind his song \u201cChampagne Town\u201d off his album 9, it seems like there are some circumstances where they absolutely do not. \u201cI think \u2019Champagne Town\u2019 is just that story of maybe somebody being with somebody that probably [&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-21173","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 15:48:55","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\/21173","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=21173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}