{"id":1312401,"date":"2019-07-14T22:00:40","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T04:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1808870"},"modified":"2019-07-14T22:00:40","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T04:00:40","slug":"introducing-brandon-ratcliff-and-his-rules-of-breaking-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/introducing-brandon-ratcliff-and-his-rules-of-breaking-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Brandon Ratcliff and His \u201cRules of Breaking Up\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:ao:image:cmt.com:677903?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\">11m ago<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u3k27mWkLYE?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\/u3k27mWkLYE?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>Brandon Ratcliff may be new to country fans, but the Louisiana native isn\u2019t new to break ups.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, when it comes to the not-so-happy ending of a relationship, Ratcliff\u2019s got some hard and fast rules.<\/p>\n<p>Ratcliff shared a behind-the-scenes look at the making of his video for \u201cRules of Breaking Up,\u201d which was shot in and around an old factory in Nashville\u2019s Germantown neighborhood, with Justin Clough in the director\u2019s chair. Ratcliff told us about all the falling he does, how late the shoot went, and what he hopes fans take away from his story.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/embed.vevo.com?isrc=QZ6U91900066&amp;partnerId=346c2586-d3f8-4b75-ba0d-398fdb6e4c08&amp;partnerAdCode=\">embed.vevo.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"> <\/noscript><\/div>\n<p>CMT: <strong>Is all the falling in the video meant to represent the falling in love, or the bouncing back?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ratcliff: I think the video\u2019s ultimate purpose was to capture the feeling of the song in a more ethereal way. Because it doesn\u2019t have a specific plot, it allows the person watching the video to determine whether it\u2019s the falling in or out of a relationship.<\/p>\n<p>CMT: <strong>So that trampoline you were on: friend or foe?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ratcliff: The trampoline was a lot of fun, although I had whiplash for a week after this shoot.<\/p>\n<p>CMT: <strong>What else surprised you about the process of shooting a video?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ratcliff: I had no idea video shoots lasted so long. I was up until 4:30 in the morning, and that part wasn\u2019t fun. Also I had brand new shoes on during the shoot, and getting them almost completely ruined was hard for me.<\/p>\n<p>CMT: <strong>Is there a woman in your life who inspired this ballad?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ratcliff: This song, for me, was written from the perspective of imagining trying to go through a break up with my wife Lexi. I almost thought of it as a love song. I don\u2019t know how I could go through those steps of moving on if it was her that I was moving on from. I would want to break those rules. Most of my songs aren\u2019t about something or someone specific, because I try to cater the story to things we\u2019ve all known, felt, or been through.<\/p>\n<p>CMT: <strong>Then what do you hope viewers and fans will take away from the new video?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ratcliff: Hopefully the video serves as more of a visual representation of how the song feels, and ultimately points the spotlight back on the song itself. I didn\u2019t want to distract from the lyrics and the production of this song because that\u2019s the most important part to me.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BzrCl4FhXnJ\/\" data-instgrm-version=\"12\"><\/blockquote>\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\/1808870\/introducing-brandon-ratcliff-and-his-rules-of-breaking-up\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Alison Bonaguro 11m ago Embedded from www.youtube.com. [embedded content] Brandon Ratcliff may be new to country fans, but the Louisiana native isn\u2019t new to break ups. In fact, when it comes to the not-so-happy ending of a relationship, Ratcliff\u2019s got some hard and fast rules. Ratcliff shared a behind-the-scenes look at the making of [&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-1312401","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 23:50:35","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\/1312401","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=1312401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1312401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1312401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1312401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}