{"id":1302428,"date":"2019-01-15T08:10:25","date_gmt":"2019-01-15T15:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1802222"},"modified":"2019-01-15T08:10:25","modified_gmt":"2019-01-15T15:10:25","slug":"meet-cmt-artist-discoverys-faren-rachels-gone-west-jaden-michaels-and-rayne-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/meet-cmt-artist-discoverys-faren-rachels-gone-west-jaden-michaels-and-rayne-johnson\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet CMT Artist Discovery\u2019s Faren Rachels, Gone West, Jaden Michaels and Rayne Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:ao:image:cmt.com:666191?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\/tinglel\/\" title=\"Posts by Lauren Tingle\" rel=\"author\">Lauren Tingle<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"date\">32m ago<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t be surprised if you end up with a solid pop-country listening habit after hearing the artists in the latest round of CMT\u2019s Artist Discovery program. You\u2019ve been warned.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Faren Rachels \u201cOn Paper\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/embed\/mgid:arc:video:cmt.com:0b3fd579-a429-406a-94bb-51fcefb2af10\">media.mtvnservices.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"> <\/noscript><\/div>\n<p>Rachels\u2019 \u201cOn Paper\u201d video is good medicine for anyone who needs a boost after hearing condescending remarks about their significant other. She gives an impassioned performance as she sings about loving someone despite their long list of wrongs on paper. The video captures three different imperfect love stories that prove fate can\u2019t be stopped. \u201cA cousin of mine brought a new guy she was dating to meet our family for the first time over the holidays,\u201d Rachels recalls of the inspiration behind \u201cOn Paper.\u201d \u201cSeveral of the men in my family were sizing him up before he got there, talking about how he had already been married twice and didn\u2019t seem to have the best past. Another cousin spoke up and said. \u201cWell he might not look good on paper, but I\u2019ve met him a couple of times, and I think he\u2019s a pretty good guy. We should just give him a chance.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gone West \u201cGone West\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/embed\/mgid:arc:video:cmt.com:57c6dea6-5823-4d2f-a541-28849a0fc8a8\">media.mtvnservices.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"> <\/noscript><\/div>\n<p>The talent in Gone West would make any musician do anything to be in the band. And they only formed less than a year ago in Nashville. Gone West comprises of Grammy winner Colbie Caillat, Jason Reeves, Justin Kawika Young and former JaneDear Girl, Nelly Joy. Reeves is Joy\u2019s husband and Caillat\u2019s longtime collaborator since her breakout album <em>Coco<\/em>. Young, a four-time Hawaii Music Award winner, is Caillat\u2019s fianc\u00e9. Featuring honeyed four-part harmony and dynamic, driving melodies, \u201cGone West\u201d is a lively introduction to the band co-starring idyllic landscapes of where they came from and where they met.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jaden Michaels \u201cBehave\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/embed\/mgid:arc:video:cmt.com:cf851065-7d37-4c7a-8414-b48d2efbb785\">media.mtvnservices.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"> <\/noscript><\/div>\n<p>Jaden Michaels\u2019 \u201cBehave\u201d shimmers with pop country flash and pours on a side of drama as her heroine struggles with the idea of going back to a love who\u2019s all wrong for her. \u201c\u2018Behave\u2019 is about the push and pull with knowing something is bad for you, but you toy with the thought of taking that risk,\u201d Michaels tells CMT.com. \u201cI think life is full of ups and downs, and we all have a different story. But I believe the best part of music and songwriting for me is being able to own it. Write your heart out until you heal yourself of whatever it may be.\u201d \u201cBehave\u201d is the first single from a forthcoming EP due later this year. Michaels also has ambitions to collaborate with her sister, Julia Michaels.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rayne Johnson \u201cLaid Back\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/embed\/mgid:arc:video:cmt.com:578db031-b7fc-4e68-a999-e92fc7df497a\">media.mtvnservices.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"> <\/noscript><\/div>\n<p>\u201cLaid Back\u201d is essentially Rayne Johnson\u2019s sage advice to the broken-hearted \u2013 never let anyone have power over your basic right to chill; especially a significant other who wronged you. \u201cWe were all sitting around having a few drinks in my garage,\u201d Johnson recalls of the inspiration for \u201cLaid Back.\u201d \u201cOne of the guys was the most recent member of the broken-hearted club. He had been moping around all night. So we all said, \u2018We gotta get you out of this funk you\u2019re in. Let\u2019s head out get a few drinks and hit up the Waffle House!\u2019 His response was like, \u201cNah, I just want to (layback) and chill.\u201d \u201cLaid Back\u201d is the first release from a forthcoming EP.<\/p>\n<div class=\"author\">\n<div class=\"description\">Lauren Tingle is a Tennessean and storyteller who eats music for breakfast, lunch and dinner. When she\u2019s not writing or rocking out, she enjoys yoga and getting lost in the great outdoors.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1802222\/meet-cmt-artist-discoverys-faren-rachels-gone-west-jaden-michaels-and-rayne-johnson\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Lauren Tingle 32m ago Don\u2019t be surprised if you end up with a solid pop-country listening habit after hearing the artists in the latest round of CMT\u2019s Artist Discovery program. You\u2019ve been warned. Faren Rachels \u201cOn Paper\u201d Embedded from media.mtvnservices.com. Rachels\u2019 \u201cOn Paper\u201d video is good medicine for anyone who needs a boost after [&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":[159],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1302428","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 07:17:17","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":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1302428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1302428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1302428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1302428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}