{"id":1316918,"date":"2019-11-23T11:01:18","date_gmt":"2019-11-23T18:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1815036"},"modified":"2019-11-23T11:01:18","modified_gmt":"2019-11-23T18:01:18","slug":"cmt-hot-20-decade-beer-never-broke-my-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/cmt-hot-20-decade-beer-never-broke-my-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"CMT Hot 20 Decade, \u201cBeer Never Broke My Heart\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:ao:image:cmt.com:685239?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 \/>\n9m ago<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span> <\/p>\n<p><em>Editor\u2019s Note: CMT Hot 20 Countdown takes a look back on 10 years of incredible music with Decade, a weekly segment that features a modern country classic that made its greatest impact between 2010 and 2019. This week, Luke Combs talk about his 2019 single, \u201cBeer Never Broke My Heart.\u201d CMT Hot 20 Countdown airs at 9\/8c Saturday and Sunday mornings.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>CMT: Take me back to when you wrote \u201cBeer Never Broke My Heart.\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>LC: I\u2019d had that title in my phone for a long time and I always thought it was super neat. I was actually on the road my first headlining tour, I can\u2019t exactly remember, I think we were in Kansas I believe. And it was Jonathan Singleton and Randy Montana on the bus with me. I\u2019d thrown this idea out to them and they really loved it. And heck, by the time I got back to the bus from soundcheck it felt like they had half of it written without me anyways, which usually ends up for the better!<\/p>\n<p>And so they played me what they had on it. They made a little demo right there on the bus. I was like, \u201cMan, this just feels like right.\u201d I wanted it to be fun and feel like an anthem-y thing and I think they knocked it out of the park with that vibe right out of the gate. We got back together in town a couple of weeks later and finished it and it felt like next thing we knew it was out and No. 1 before I could blink my eyes almost. It was pretty wild.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7Lb9dq-JZFI?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\/7Lb9dq-JZFI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\t<\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Is this one of the ones that you kind of threw out there for people on Instagram? How\u2019d you do it?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I had played it at a little radio show with my guitar player Tyler and it was just the two of us there. We played it and the crowd was singing it by the end of the thing. It was pretty wild and I think a fan put it on YouTube like the next day and that week it had like 10 million views on it or something like that. \u2026<\/p>\n<p>We hadn\u2019t even recorded in the studio yet. So me and the band worked it up, started playing it out on the road and the next thing you know, I named my tour after it before it was even released. (Laughs.) So we really kind of jumped the gun, I guess. Everything went backwards on that one. But we had a feeling that people were loving it because we were seeing it out on the road and that ended up being the case. <\/p>\n<p><strong>You were saying that people were singing the words back to you even before you finished the song and yet they\u2019ve obviously never heard the song. Explain how that even happens. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I think if you can get that perfect mix of melody and a relatable hook, a relatable chorus, I think people just start singing along. They don\u2019t even know why. I find myself singing along to songs that I\u2019ve never heard before, too, so I think it\u2019s a natural progression that sometimes you write a song where that happens and that just happened to be one of them.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cREzEoNOpkw?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\/cREzEoNOpkw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\t<\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>What was it like for you to see how this thing just shot up the charts and then stayed there?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yeah it was pretty wild because we had been going so crazy, schedule-wise, for the last four or five years and it seemed like right when \u201cBeer\u201d came out, we had a break where we had like 6 weeks off without any shows. And it felt like to me that it was at its peak at that time, which was just here recently. Usually we\u2019re out on the road and we\u2019re doing this thing and we\u2019re doing interviews and we\u2019re talking about it. <\/p>\n<p>I feel like I missed all of that with this song because we were on a break from the road which lends to a break from press and media and interviews. So we never really got to talk about it that much because it went so fast, and by the time we got back it was like, we\u2019re onto the next. This next single was already here and already charting at that point. So it was like this weird thing where we had been playing it for so long I don\u2019t feel like I missed anything.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BPUXZpMCrRY?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\/BPUXZpMCrRY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\t<\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Does it feel like it\u2019s put you on a different level?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yeah I think this song was really huge for us. We already had so much momentum going, things were going really well, and this song came along and it stepped up. It was the most rockin\u2019 thing that we have at that time and I think still is. It elevated us, whereas the highs in our shows before were \u201cHurricane\u201d and \u201cBest of Me,\u201d which are upbeat songs but they\u2019re midtempo. They\u2019re more like vibey songs as opposed to a right-in-your-face kind of thing. And we have plenty of those songs. We just never had one that has been out at radio and that\u2019s been so received by people on such a bigger level than even a song on the album can be.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What has it been like to stand on the stage and sing this song to people?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Oh it\u2019s super fun, I\u2019ll tell you that much. It\u2019s definitely a thrilling experience and the energy is really, really awesome. I think the crowd probably feels it as much as we do. We\u2019re all in this moment together where they\u2019re so excited to hear their favorite song and we\u2019re so excited to play their favorite song for them. So it\u2019s a similar feeling. I\u2019ve been in the crowd before, and been at a show where everybody\u2019s singing along just as many times as I\u2019ve been onstage with everybody singing one of my songs. And it\u2019s definitely a similar feeling. It\u2019s really fun and I\u2019m just enjoying it while it lasts. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1815036\/cmt-hot-20-decade-beer-never-broke-my-heart\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by CMT.com Staff 9m ago Editor\u2019s Note: CMT Hot 20 Countdown takes a look back on 10 years of incredible music with Decade, a weekly segment that features a modern country classic that made its greatest impact between 2010 and 2019. This week, Luke Combs talk about his 2019 single, \u201cBeer Never Broke My Heart.\u201d [&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-1316918","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 13:03:08","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\/1316918","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=1316918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1316918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1316918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1316918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}