{"id":1313748,"date":"2019-08-20T09:47:20","date_gmt":"2019-08-20T15:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1810416"},"modified":"2019-08-20T09:47:20","modified_gmt":"2019-08-20T15:47:20","slug":"this-is-the-best-song-birthday-ever-for-runaway-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/this-is-the-best-song-birthday-ever-for-runaway-june\/","title":{"rendered":"This Is the Best Song Birthday Ever for Runaway June"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:ao:image:cmt.com:680079?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\">56m ago<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Today is the day Runaway June\u2019s \u201cBuy My Own Drinks\u201d turns one. It was released exactly one year ago today (Aug. 20). And there is probably no better birthday gift than a No. 10 chart position.<\/p>\n<p>Not only is this the trio\u2019s first top ten hit, the song just keeps climbing. And for good reason.<\/p>\n<p>Because it\u2019s more than just a neon-lights drinking song.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s more than just a girl-power anthem.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s more than just a break-up recovery song.<\/p>\n<p>This song is a rallying cry for fiercely independent women to celebrate their own damn self-sufficiency. \u201cThat\u2019s the point of the song. Just self love. That all you need is yourself,\u201d the trio\u2019s Jennifer Wayne told me when we caught up in Chicago \u2014 over drinks, obviously \u2014 last week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s really a giant metaphor for not looking externally for things to fulfill you or make you happy,\u201d Naomi Cook added. \u201cYou have it all right there. And that\u2019s a more powerful message than just narrowing it down to the gender empowerment that people try to stamp on us.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is way bigger than that. Because it empowers all ages, races, and genders. It\u2019s scary how many people are <em>not<\/em> self-sufficient these days.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1EtTpY1yPJw?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\/1EtTpY1yPJw?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>Runaway June\u2019s Wayne, Cooke and Hannah Mulholland penned the tune with Josh Kear and Hillary Lindsey.<\/p>\n<p>To me, the message that this song sends me is this: being independent is very liberating. And I\u2019m proud to rely only on me, myself and I. I wondered if they knew the song would be that potent the day they wrote it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI remember plugging in the work tape on the way home from the write. And I still thought, \u2019This is so good.\u2019 And then the band heard it and they wanted to start playing it two weeks later at Stagecoach. We\u2019d never played it live, and people had never heard it, but by the second chorus, they were already singing it back to us. Like they almost knew it better than we did.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s when we knew this song was special.\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<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/alisonbonaguro\" target=\"_BLANK\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@alisonbonaguro<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1810416\/this-is-the-best-song-birthday-ever-for-runaway-june\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Alison Bonaguro 56m ago Today is the day Runaway June\u2019s \u201cBuy My Own Drinks\u201d turns one. It was released exactly one year ago today (Aug. 20). And there is probably no better birthday gift than a No. 10 chart position. Not only is this the trio\u2019s first top ten hit, the song just keeps [&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-1313748","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 09:23:22","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\/1313748","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=1313748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1313748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1313748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1313748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}