{"id":1310483,"date":"2019-05-20T13:55:37","date_gmt":"2019-05-20T19:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1806862"},"modified":"2019-05-20T13:55:37","modified_gmt":"2019-05-20T19:55:37","slug":"american-idol-winner-wants-to-know-where-he-belongs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/american-idol-winner-wants-to-know-where-he-belongs\/","title":{"rendered":"American Idol Winner Wants to Know Where He Belongs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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by Alison Bonaguro<\/a><\/span> 46m ago<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n

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What genre do y\u2019all think I am?<\/p>\n

\u2014 Laine Hardy (@TheLaineHardy) May 16, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Just a few days before Laine Hardy was crowned the official 2019 American Idol<\/em> on the Sunday night (May 19) finale, he asked his growing social media following where he fits in.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat genre do y\u2019all think I am?\u201d<\/p>\n

A simple question, for sure, but one with a not-so-simple answer. In fact, as of the day after his big win, that tweet has generated hundreds of responses and thousands of retweets. But still, it\u2019s hard to put a label on Hardy.<\/p>\n

On one hand, Swampy Bayou Country Rock, if that\u2019s indeed a thing, is what the majority of his followers used to describe his sound. And on the other hand, Hardy seems to have fans who want him to be all things. In other words, no labels, no boxes, no narrow-mindedness.<\/p>\n

With Luke Bryan<\/a>\u2019s support throughout this Idol<\/em> season \u2014 and last Idol<\/em> season when Hardy had some success but failed to make it into the top ten \u2014 there might have been the assumption that Hardy was going to lean a little country.<\/p>\n

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Party with Hardy. Bayou Boy. Laine Train. Whatever you say, he\u2019s ready. @TheLaineHardy<\/a> #IdolFinale<\/a> #AmericanIdol<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Luke Bryan (@LukeBryanOnline) May 20, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

After all, he drives a pick-up truck, sometimes just to burn gas. He has a deep Southern drawl that\u2019ll make the conversation crawl. He\u2019s hunted alligators. He\u2019s been in a dirt bike accident. But of all the songs he performed on the show, only a few were straight-up country tunes: Chris Stapleton\u2019s \u201cFire Away,\u201d Hank Williams\u2019 \u201cJambalaya (On the Bayou)\u201d and a duet on Johnny Cash and June Carter\u2019s \u201cJackson.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s unclear whether Hardy was just asking the genre question rhetorically, or if he truly wants to know where he stands with his fans. One thing we know for sure, though, is that America loves their #BayouBoy.<\/p>\n

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It’s officially a Party with a Hardy tonight!! @TheLaineHardy<\/a> is our Idol! #AmericanIdol<\/a> #IdolFinale<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/wzSmvTE9MU<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 American Idol (@AmericanIdol) May 20, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Alison makes her living loving country music. She’s based in Chicago, but she’s always leaving her heart in Nashville.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Alison Bonaguro 46m ago What genre do y\u2019all think I am? \u2014 Laine Hardy (@TheLaineHardy) May 16, 2019 Just a few days before Laine Hardy was crowned the official 2019 American Idol on the Sunday night (May 19) finale, he asked his growing social media following where he fits in. \u201cWhat genre do y\u2019all […]<\/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-1310483","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 13:58:55","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\/1310483","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=1310483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1310483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1310483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1310483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}