{"id":1307896,"date":"2019-04-05T08:33:37","date_gmt":"2019-04-05T14:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1804760"},"modified":"2019-04-05T08:33:37","modified_gmt":"2019-04-05T14:33:37","slug":"what-may-have-inspired-little-big-towns-the-daughters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/what-may-have-inspired-little-big-towns-the-daughters\/","title":{"rendered":"What May Have Inspired Little Big Town\u2019s \u201cThe Daughters\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:ao:image:cmt.com:667674?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\">30m ago<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Remember last year\u2019s best-selling book <em>Girl, Wash Your Face: Stop Believing the Lies About Who You Are So You Can Become Who You Were Meant to Be<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>It was an inspiring, self-help book full of real life common sense, from Rachel Hollis, and I have this theory that it inspired Little Big Town\u2019s brand new \u201cThe Daughters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Because the first lyric of the moving ballad is, <em>Oh girl, wash your face \u2019fore you come to the table.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>From there, it goes on to list all the things that the world expects of women, young and old.<br \/><em><br \/>Girl, know your place, be willing and able.<br \/>Take it on the chin, let the best man win.<br \/>Girl, shoulders back and stand up straight.<br \/>Girl, watch your mouth and watch your weight.<br \/>Mind your manners, smile for the camera.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, the band\u2019s Karen Fairchild comes to the message of the song, that we are all looking for a God for women.<\/p>\n<p>Fairchild wrote the song with Sean McConnell and Ashley Ray, and it\u2019s the first release from the Little Big Town\u2019s forthcoming studio album.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/t1oHtDA1vWE?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\/t1oHtDA1vWE?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>Little Big Town will perform \u201cThe Daughters\u201d for the first time on the 54th Annual ACM Awards on Sunday night (April 7) at 8:00 PM ET on CBS.<\/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\/1804760\/what-may-have-inspired-little-big-towns-the-daughters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Alison Bonaguro 30m ago Remember last year\u2019s best-selling book Girl, Wash Your Face: Stop Believing the Lies About Who You Are So You Can Become Who You Were Meant to Be? It was an inspiring, self-help book full of real life common sense, from Rachel Hollis, and I have this theory that it inspired [&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-1307896","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 02:46:34","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\/1307896","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=1307896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1307896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1307896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1307896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}