{"id":1318495,"date":"2020-03-02T06:40:04","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T13:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1818583"},"modified":"2020-03-02T06:40:04","modified_gmt":"2020-03-02T13:40:04","slug":"lee-brice-whats-next-after-happy-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/lee-brice-whats-next-after-happy-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Lee Brice: What\u2019s Next After \u201cHappy Now\u201d?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:ao:image:cmt.com:690017?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\"><br \/>\n33m ago<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span> <\/p>\n<p>On his way to a Nashville songwriting session with Adam Wood and Ashley Gorley, Lee Brice stopped by the CMT offices to talk about, well, songwriting. <\/p>\n<p>But first, that duet. <\/p>\n<p>Brice\u2019s duet with Carly Pearce \u2014 \u201cI Hope You\u2019re Happy Now\u201d \u2014 is one that he had a feeling would be a hit. \u201cBut then again, it\u2019s so hard to tell if a song will be a hit on the radio. But I knew people would love it, so I knew it would be a hit with people,\u201d Brice told me of the top ten tune. \u201cAs soon as it hit the charts, though, radio was jumping all over it and saying it was a smash. That\u2019s always a really good sign. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn my heart I knew, but you never <em>really<\/em> know. It\u2019s on fire now. Heck, I feel blessed to be a part of that moment in music. To have my voice on the radio,\u201d he said, \u201cI\u2019m always grateful for that.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SBBhyMYnwCw?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\/SBBhyMYnwCw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\t<\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<p>Pearce wrote that song with Luke Combs, Randy Montana and Jonathan Singleton. <\/p>\n<p>So what\u2019s the secret to writing songs that could be a potential smash?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s everything from sitting down with a blank brain and a blank sheet of paper to just starting to play music and see what comes out. Or sometimes my iTunes will randomly play a song and it gives me an idea. The other day on my way to a write, I was thinking about a new version of a Don Williams kind of song. And I walked straight in and said to the engineer, \u2019Give me a kick drum and a guitar.\u2019 I just threw down a groove before my co-writers even got there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But sometimes, inspiration is a little more strategic than just waiting on an idea. \u201cSometimes it\u2019s a matter of looking at what you have: love songs, break-up songs, feel-good songs, and then you see where the gaps are. I always say, \u2019Let\u2019s not write the same song twice.\u2019 I like my albums to be balanced, that\u2019s just part of my artistry. And I will always want to make a body of work. Fans want that, too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Next up for Brice is a song about one of them girls. He wrote it with Ashley Gorley, and hopes to release it right around the ACM Awards.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s kind of like the girl that you might not think a guy would want at a young age,\u201d he shared. \u201cShe kind of plays hard to get, she\u2019s a good girl, she respects herself, she works hard, she\u2019s not necessarily looking to party down, and she is not looking for guys. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut when you grow up, as a guy, <em>that\u2019s<\/em> the kind of woman you want.\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\/1818583\/lee-brice-whats-next-after-happy-now\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Alison Bonaguro 33m ago On his way to a Nashville songwriting session with Adam Wood and Ashley Gorley, Lee Brice stopped by the CMT offices to talk about, well, songwriting. But first, that duet. Brice\u2019s duet with Carly Pearce \u2014 \u201cI Hope You\u2019re Happy Now\u201d \u2014 is one that he had a feeling would [&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-1318495","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 09:17:51","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\/1318495","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=1318495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1318495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1318495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1318495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}