{"id":1308459,"date":"2019-04-12T08:20:17","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T14:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1805354"},"modified":"2019-04-12T08:20:17","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T14:20:17","slug":"dierks-bentley-its-about-being-intentional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/dierks-bentley-its-about-being-intentional\/","title":{"rendered":"Dierks Bentley: \u201cIt\u2019s About Being Intentional\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:ao:image:cmt.com:671767?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\">33m ago<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Iv8Fu7GIutg?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\/Iv8Fu7GIutg?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>You don\u2019t even need to have the sound on get what this new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/artists\/dierks-bentley\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Dierks Bentley song<\/a> is all about. It\u2019s about living, and there\u2019s no better way to demonstrate that than with this ultimate father-son video starring Bentley and his youngest, Knox.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve had a five-year-old son, so I know exactly what those days are like: when you\u2019ve stepped on Legos, jumped on trampolines, wrestled in the back yard, splashed around a water park, done some karate, played with puppies, suited up for a joust, learned to ride a scooter, gone for ice cream* and then collapsed on the couch at home before you wake up and do it all over again the very next day.<\/p>\n<p>Bentley wrote the song with Ross Copperman, Ashley Gorley and Jon Nite, and he shot the video in Nashville with longtime director and collaborator Wes Edwards.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2019Living\u2019 certainly celebrates life\u2019s big moments and adventures, but for me it\u2019s even more about being intentional and present in everyday moments,\u201d said Bentley. \u201cKnox is at that age where he can still find the biggest joy in the smallest things, and that childlike appreciation for life is the spirit I wanted to bring to this video to remind us of difference between just being alive and actually \u2018living.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If being intentional means acknowledging that some days you just forget what all you\u2019ve been given and that some days you just get by and some days you\u2019re just alive but some days you\u2019re livin\u2019, then mission accomplished. (In addition to those attitude-of-gratitude lyrics, Bentley also threw in a line about how \u201cit\u2019s a beautiful world sometimes,\u201d which could be a throwback to his 2009 duet with Patty Griffin, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sjLJvqpRt_8\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Beautiful World<\/a>,\u201d a song Bentley wrote with Brett and Jim Beavers.)<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the bottom line is that Knox has completely stolen the spotlight from his dad, leaving us all shaking our heads like, \u201cDierks who?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>* This is THE BEST SCENE in the video, watching Bentley watch Knox flirt with the ice cream girl at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cottonandsnow.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Cotton and Snow<\/a>.<\/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\/1805354\/dierks-bentley-its-about-being-intentional\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Alison Bonaguro 33m ago Embedded from www.youtube.com. [embedded content] You don\u2019t even need to have the sound on get what this new Dierks Bentley song is all about. It\u2019s about living, and there\u2019s no better way to demonstrate that than with this ultimate father-son video starring Bentley and his youngest, Knox. I\u2019ve had a [&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-1308459","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 05:42:46","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\/1308459","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=1308459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1308459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1308459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1308459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}