{"id":1313973,"date":"2019-08-26T05:00:29","date_gmt":"2019-08-26T11:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1810994"},"modified":"2019-08-26T05:00:29","modified_gmt":"2019-08-26T11:00:29","slug":"hunter-hayes-assumed-nobody-would-hear-his-new-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/hunter-hayes-assumed-nobody-would-hear-his-new-album\/","title":{"rendered":"Hunter Hayes Assumed Nobody Would Hear His New Album"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:ao:image:cmt.com:680652?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\/cmtcomstaff\/\" title=\"Posts by CMT.com Staff\" rel=\"author\">CMT.com Staff<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"date\">43m ago<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>After a personally tumultuous time, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/artists\/hunter-hayes\">Hunter Hayes<\/a> decided to write and record whatever he wanted, figuring that it would never see the light of day. Instead, those sessions led to his brand new album, <em>Wild Blue, Part I<\/em>. He invited CMT host Cody Alan into his home for a chat about the new music.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cody Alan: Leading into this album, it\u2019s been a little while. So\u2026 some stress, some pressure, but at the same time there must be some relief that you can get to the point you can release it, right?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hunter Hayes: Yeah. I mean, the stress, the pressure, are honestly all gone. And that\u2019s the beauty of this album. That\u2019s why I love this album so much, because it\u2019s the album that I made assuming the world would never hear it, and it\u2019s the stuff that I\u2019ve most proud of.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What do you mean, \u201cassuming the world would never hear it\u201d?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When I started out on <em>Wild Blue<\/em>, it was the first time that I\u2019d ever had an album that I named before I started working on it. The intentionality of this was, I had been writing so much knowing that everyone was watching.<\/p>\n<p>And this was the first project, the first series of music that I made, honestly assuming that no one would ever hear it. And it removed a lot of the filters. It just got rid of all the things in my way. And it allowed me to start writing about things, again with the safety net that I don\u2019t have to release it if it\u2019s too personal.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3e0NuD_YLQA?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\/3e0NuD_YLQA?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><strong>Is this a new Hunter in some ways?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No, actually, it\u2019s just me. I think anything else has just been \u201cold Hunter.\u201d I think I was stuck for a minute, and there was this breakoff point where I started growing as a human, and I was convinced that my image of me as a public whatever couldn\u2019t change until I realized that I was allowed to actually be me. That\u2019s the point.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why did [the title track] lead the way for how the album came together?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Because it was the first one that I made with no filters. It was just like, I\u2019m going to do whatever the hell I want. As far as structure-wise, there\u2019s really no structure. There\u2019s a lot of lines. It\u2019s very spur of the moment. Musically I just tried a lot of things, or just did a lot of things that I wanted to do, regardless of kind of anything. Yeah, I just went for it.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZWvKNF2BA_M?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\/ZWvKNF2BA_M?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><strong>And yet, the Hunter that I loved before, I still hear on this album also. \u201cHeartbreak,\u201d to me, sounds like a great Hunter Hayes song from three years ago, say.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thank you.<\/p>\n<p><strong>It\u2019s the song being played right now on the radio as well. It\u2019s sort of a heartbreak song, as the title would indicate, but it really is also an upbeat song.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There was so much I wanted, and had to look forward to, in all this change. I think before I really started diving into it, the first approach was, OK, I\u2019ve got to first establish that I do have something to look forward to, and that the end of a relationship is not the end of the world.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8ZtWm_JjkoQ?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\/8ZtWm_JjkoQ?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><strong>When it comes to the video for it, it looked like you burned a lot of calories.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I did.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How many?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Uhhh\u2026 Enough. Enough. I was sore! I could barely get down the stairs to get to the studio, for like a week.<\/p>\n<p><strong>So, is there a Part II?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yes, yeah.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What can you tell us about that?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s even more! (laughs) The thing that I love about doing it in parts is that it allows me to stay more present than I\u2019ve ever been able to be. What I mean by that is, I\u2019m not building a career towards one album release every three freakin\u2019 years, and by the time I\u2019m done playing this album, three years from then, it\u2019s a seven-year-old project. You know what I mean?<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_OjpHvyeQlo?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=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_OjpHvyeQlo?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><strong>That\u2019s frustrating to you, isn\u2019t it?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Incredibly frustrating!<\/em> Can you tell? (laughs) Do you feel the body language change? This allows me to do exactly what I just did \u2013 drop it when it\u2019s ready. And keep everybody up to date, versus playing old stuff.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Congratulations, it turned out awesome.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thank you, I appreciate it.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1810994\/hunter-hayes-assumed-nobody-would-hear-his-new-album\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by CMT.com Staff 43m ago After a personally tumultuous time, Hunter Hayes decided to write and record whatever he wanted, figuring that it would never see the light of day. Instead, those sessions led to his brand new album, Wild Blue, Part I. 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