{"id":1304136,"date":"2019-02-22T04:30:49","date_gmt":"2019-02-22T11:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1803249"},"modified":"2019-02-22T04:30:49","modified_gmt":"2019-02-22T11:30:49","slug":"cherie-oakley-works-to-empower-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/cherie-oakley-works-to-empower-others\/","title":{"rendered":"Cherie Oakley Works to Empower Others"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:ao:image:cmt.com:668414?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\">5h ago<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Holy hairbrush songs, Batman.<\/p>\n<p>Rising artist Cherie Oakley just released the sonic love-child of Jessie J, Ariana Grande and Nicki Minaj\u2019s \u201cBang, Bang\u201d and Christina Aguilera\u2019s \u201cFighter\u201d for a country audience with her latest original, \u201cWork It.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The official video directed by Patrick Tohill has Oakley interpreting a woman\u2019s ability to take charge of her life and show that she can handle it throws her way.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/embed\/mgid:arc:video:cmt.com:aef1ba38-c58d-4f28-a704-c233341bfb6a\">media.mtvnservices.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"> <\/noscript><\/div>\n<p>\u201cI wanted to write a female empowerment song that was fun, up-tempo and celebratory of women,\u201d Oakley tells CMT.com. \u201cThis is a release from an upcoming collection that\u2019s part of a streaming dialogue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Oakley is from Crawfordsville, Ind., but she grew up touring full-time in evangelism. \u201cI feel like I have quite a few hometowns,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>Upcoming <a href=\"http:\/\/cherieoakley.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tour dates<\/a> are in the works. Get to know Oakley in her own words below.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CMT.com: How old were you when you realized music was what you wanted to do for the rest of your life?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Oakley: I began singing the moment I started talking. There was never an epiphany moment for me. It was more of this is what I\u2019ve always known. This is what I\u2019ve always done. I didn\u2019t realize that orchestrating vocal parts for my entire family at eight years old was different or unique. I didn\u2019t know that wanting to sing eight to 10 hours a day instead of anything else as a toddler was different or unique until I was much older. My entire life was a bit different because of it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Are there any subjects that are difficult to write about or are all subjects fair game?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I find pretty much all subjects to be fair game. I\u2019m in country music \u2014 the genre where it\u2019s OK to talk about life and what happens in life.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What has been the best advice you\u2019ve been given in your career so far?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Do it because you love it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What has been your most interesting side hustle?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I do vocal coaching with established artists.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Are there any artists you\u2019ve always wanted to work with?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yes, quite a few: Justin Timberlake, Adele, Patti LaBelle, Reba McEntire (I\u2019ve sung on Reba songs, but she was never there.), Taylor Swift, Bruno Mars, Michael Bubl\u00e9, Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood, Dolly Parton, Tony Bennett, Gladys Knight, Paul McCartney, Celine Dion, Barbra Streisand, Shania Twain, Faith Hill and Ed Sheeran.<\/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\/1803249\/cherie-oakley-works-to-empower-others\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Lauren Tingle 5h ago Holy hairbrush songs, Batman. Rising artist Cherie Oakley just released the sonic love-child of Jessie J, Ariana Grande and Nicki Minaj\u2019s \u201cBang, Bang\u201d and Christina Aguilera\u2019s \u201cFighter\u201d for a country audience with her latest original, \u201cWork It.\u201d The official video directed by Patrick Tohill has Oakley interpreting a woman\u2019s ability [&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-1304136","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 17:33:14","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\/1304136","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=1304136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1304136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1304136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1304136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}