{"id":1304573,"date":"2019-03-01T07:33:26","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T14:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1803485"},"modified":"2019-03-01T07:33:26","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T14:33:26","slug":"maddie-tae-talk-new-song-ballsy-moves-and-acms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/maddie-tae-talk-new-song-ballsy-moves-and-acms\/","title":{"rendered":"Maddie &amp; Tae Talk New Song, Ballsy Moves and ACMs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:ao:image:cmt.com:668897?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\">7m ago<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Before I\u2019d had a chance to listen to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/artists\/maddie-tae\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Maddie &amp; Tae<\/a>\u2019s \u201cTourist in This Town,\u201d I had Maddie Marlow and Tae Dye tell me all about the story behind the new song.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s all about how you feel like a tourist in your own town because you have to avoid the places you and your ex went to,\u201d Marlow told me when we caught up before their Chicago show last week. \u201cYou have to relearn it. Because you don\u2019t want to run into him, but you do want to run into him. You know?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And while Marlow herself is not a tourist in her own town at all \u2014 she is engaged to be married to Jonah Font in November \u2014 Dye was going through that relearning process when they were writing the song. Like the song says, her ex turned her heart into a city on a map. \u201cI was right in that \u2019Tourist in This Town\u2019 phase.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was too,\u201d her best friend Marlow added, \u201cbecause when your best friend has an ex, you just want to punch him in the face.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nPS2gEylzSY?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\/nPS2gEylzSY?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>The two wrote the song with Barry Dean and Jimmy Robbins, both prolific Nashville hitmakers, and they told me that going into a songwriting session like that doesn\u2019t scare them anymore. \u201cTae and I have been together for nine years,\u201d Marlow said, \u201cand we hold our own in writing sessions. I feel like we have earned our place in that room.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That much is obvious when you consider that their debut hit \u201cGirl in a Country Song\u201d went to the top of the charts almost overnight in 2014. And the critical acclaim for their songwriting craft hasn\u2019t faded since. That said, when Marlow and Dye throwback to that song, they are both a little shook.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t realize at the time how ballsy \u2019Girl in a Country Song\u2019 was until I was 23. Holy crap. How did neither of us know that? We were not afraid, we didn\u2019t care what people thought,\u201d she said of their 18-year-old mindset. \u201cWe were telling our truth, but looking back I\u2019m like, \u2019Damn. We had bigger balls than most men.&#8217;\u201d (The guy who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1730184\/whos-the-guy-in-girl-in-a-country-song\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">stars<\/a> in the video, David Spielberg, loved playing a part in Maddie &amp; Tae\u2019s debut.)<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_MOavH-Eivw?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\/_MOavH-Eivw?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>The duo is currently up for the Academy of Country Music\u2019s duo of the year award, but they aren\u2019t sure they are going to win because the competition this year is so solid. Brothers Osborne, Dan + Shay, Florida Georgia Line and LOCASH are in the category with them. Marlow and Dye have a prediction \u2014 and a very healthy attitude \u2014 going in to the April awards show.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel like we will have our year. But we both think this will be Dan and Shay\u2019s year,\u201d Dye told me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd we think that God\u2019s got enough blessings for everybody.\u201d<\/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<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1803485\/maddie-tae-talk-new-song-ballsy-moves-and-acms\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Alison Bonaguro 7m ago Before I\u2019d had a chance to listen to Maddie &amp; Tae\u2019s \u201cTourist in This Town,\u201d I had Maddie Marlow and Tae Dye tell me all about the story behind the new song. \u201cIt\u2019s all about how you feel like a tourist in your own town because you have to avoid [&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-1304573","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 19:28:29","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\/1304573","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=1304573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1304573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1304573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1304573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}