{"id":1316255,"date":"2019-10-30T11:40:06","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T17:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1813913"},"modified":"2019-10-30T11:40:06","modified_gmt":"2019-10-30T17:40:06","slug":"chris-janson-sometimes-song-titles-just-roll-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/chris-janson-sometimes-song-titles-just-roll-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Janson: Sometimes Song Titles Just Roll Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:ao:image:cmt.com:684102?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\"><br \/>\n4m ago<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The power of positive thinking is paying off for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/artists\/chris-janson\">Chris Janson<\/a>, who\u2019s scored a No. 1 hit this month with \u201cGood Vibes,\u201d an upbeat anthem he wrote with Zach Crowell and Ashley Gorley.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the time we wrote \u2018Good Vibes,\u2019 we had no plans or preparation for writing a new album or releasing a new album or any kind of date set,\u201d Janson tells <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/shows\/hot-20-countdown\">CMT Hot 20 Countdown<\/a><\/em>. \u201cThat song just happened to spur a bunch of creativity. \u2026 So I wrote like 40 other songs, we picked 11, and made a new album.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That new album, <em>Real Friends<\/em>, dropped just a few days after the chart-topping success of \u201cGood Vibes.\u201d Here, Janson explains why he spent more time focused on songwriting for this project, why he casts his wife in all his videos, and how that sunny day in the music video is just a bit deceiving.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VYWhpDcEwm4?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VYWhpDcEwm4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\t<\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>CMT: I wanted to get some back story on \u201cGood Vibes\u201d when you were writing it. Was it just that you didn\u2019t want any negativity? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Janson: Yeah. We were writing and we didn\u2019t want any negativity. I try to stay away from negativity as much as you can be in life. But that\u2019s human nature. And we were kind of grumbling around. I mean, this is what people do, especially when they get together. They start downin\u2019 this, downin\u2019 that, and complain about this, complain about that. You can get in such a quick web of that, easy. So it was real simple. I said, \u201cGood vibes only,\u201d kind of jokingly. I never intended to write a song called \u201cGood Vibes.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>I mean, historically, I never intended to write a single called \u201cBuy Me a Boat,\u201d \u201cTruck Yeah,\u201d none of that. It just happened, you know. But it all happened because of a catchphrase that happened to roll out of my mouth. So that\u2019s what happened. And it set a funny tone in the room like, \u201cHa, ha. That would never work.\u201d And now it\u2019s working. \u2026 So we\u2019re grateful for that. And it\u2019s a positive message. There\u2019s nothing in the song that you can hate on. That\u2019s the good thing. It\u2019s not controversial whatsoever. It just puts me in a good mood, so I hope it puts others in a good mood.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7TJTxS6Xxhw?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7TJTxS6Xxhw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\t<\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>You mentioned that writing \u201cGood Vibes\u201d helped lead to a new album, but I definitely feel like you could have gotten at least a couple more singles from your previous album.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thanks, I appreciate that. I just get bored of stuff. I mean, I love the songs on the <em>Everybody<\/em> record. I love the songs on the <em>Buy Me a Boat<\/em> record. But I like moving and doing new stuff. I\u2019m a songwriter, so I\u2019m constantly writing new stuff anyway. I got to tell you, I think these songs are better. I think that they\u2019re going to mop the floor with the last two albums. I think it\u2019s really going to set the bar. <\/p>\n<p>I took a lot of time and focused a lot of [songwriting] energy specifically on myself, which in the past I haven\u2019t done. I\u2019ve always focused about 50\/50, half on me and half on songs I was writing for other people. And history shows that it\u2019s both productive that way. When I was making the <em>Everybody<\/em> album, I had \u201cLove This Life Come Out\u201d on Locash. And that was right out of \u201cBuy Me a Boat.\u201d It kept flip flopping back and forth. And the Tim McGraw single, \u201cHow I\u2019ll Always Be.\u201d But this time I just hyper-focused on myself and I had a good time doing it.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OhRjh2U_fHQ?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OhRjh2U_fHQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\t<\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Your family is also in this video. I think by my count, you\u2019ve made four videos with all of them in there. You can always find a way to get your family into the videos.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s an important thing to me. A long time ago, at my first video shoot \u2014 my very first one that nobody even really knows about \u2026 I just didn\u2019t have the right team around me. Nobody was letting me be myself. Nobody understood who I was and what I was about. And so I didn\u2019t get to do it the way I wanted. I said from that point on, if I ever have another record deal \u2014 which, thank God I do \u2014 but if I ever had another record deal or I ever get to do music the way I want to do it, the way I moved to Nashville to do it, I\u2019m gonna do it my way or I\u2019m not gonna do it at all. <\/p>\n<p>And so every video from there on out, that\u2019s been my mainstay feature \u2014 my family\u2019s gonna be in it. You know, I do music. I don\u2019t care about acting or anything. So I\u2019m not gonna put my arms around some other woman. I\u2019m not gonna even look at another woman. And my wife is smokin\u2019 hot, too. She looks good in a video. Not to mention she\u2019s my hot wife. That\u2019s just the way I do it. That\u2019s the most comfortable and it\u2019s the most real. I think that people identify with me like they identify with so many others, because they\u2019re real people. I just keep it real. I keep my family close to me at all times.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hNRJjDm2sQE?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hNRJjDm2sQE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\t<\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>It\u2019s such a fun, summery song, but what was the video shoot like?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I was cold, man! It looks warm because we had the top down on the Jeep and all that kind of thing. And I was doing everything I could to roll my sleeves up. I mean, it was not easy. When I\u2019m in the field singing, looking at the camera and I get that big, beautiful shot behind me, it\u2019s like, \u201cI\u2019m so happy la, la, la\u2026.\u201d I was miserable! It was awful. It was 17 degrees with a north wind. <\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s OK because it\u2019s good. That was the day that we all agreed to do it, and that was one of the only days with sun that week. So you just gotta make things work. People say you gotta make hay when the sun shines. Literally, we had to make a video when the sun shined. And I mean, \u201cGood Vibes.\u201d You can\u2019t really get in a bad mood over that.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1813913\/chris-janson-sometimes-song-titles-just-roll-out\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by CMT.com Staff 4m ago The power of positive thinking is paying off for Chris Janson, who\u2019s scored a No. 1 hit this month with \u201cGood Vibes,\u201d an upbeat anthem he wrote with Zach Crowell and Ashley Gorley. \u201cAt the time we wrote \u2018Good Vibes,\u2019 we had no plans or preparation for writing a new [&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-1316255","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 07:21:48","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\/1316255","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=1316255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1316255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1316255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1316255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}