{"id":1320086,"date":"2020-05-18T22:01:31","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T04:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1821207"},"modified":"2020-05-18T22:01:31","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T04:01:31","slug":"avenue-beat-roll-with-the-rough-moments-in-ruin-that-for-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/avenue-beat-roll-with-the-rough-moments-in-ruin-that-for-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Avenue Beat Roll With the Rough Moments in \u201cRuin That For Me\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:ao:image:cmt.com:692862?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\">12m ago<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The young women of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.avenuebeat.com\/\">Avenue Beat<\/a> are showing that it\u2019s possible to stay positive after a breakup in their new video, \u201cRuin That For Me.\u201d Rather than moping around, they effortlessly blend their voices to provide encouragement to their fans in a similar situation.<\/p>\n<p>Composed of Savana Santos, Sam Backoff, and Sami Bearden, Avenue Beat moved to Nashville from Quincy, Illinois, a few years ago after high school graduation. Now they\u2019re part of CMT\u2019s Next Women of Country class of 2020, while \u201cRuin It for Me\u201d (from a self-titled EP) is approaching 10 million streams on Spotify.<\/p>\n<p>Take a look at the new video for \u201cRuin That for Me,\u201d then read our interview with Avenue Beat below the player.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/embed.vevo.com?isrc=USLXJ2044012&amp;partnerId=4d61b777-8023-4191-9ede-497ed6c24647&amp;partnerAdCode=\">embed.vevo.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"> <\/noscript><\/div>\n<p><strong>What do you remember most about the shoot for this video?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Savana Santos: I remember thinking \u201cHOLY CRAP THIS IS THE CRAZIEST THING I HAVE EVER DONE IN MY LIFE!\u201d There were makeup artists, catering, stylists and a massive crew and I was like, \u201cWhen am I gonna wake up from this fantasy dream?!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>How does the video bring your song to life?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sam Backoff: The video is a bunch of scenes of us attempting to make our first-ever music video and things keep going wrong but keeping a positive lighthearted attitude about the whole thing. That\u2019s kind of the point of the song \u2014 even if somebody breaks your heart, you don\u2019t have to let the memories you shared be ruined because of it. You can let those memories just live in your brain as good memories because at that time, they were!<\/p>\n<p><strong>What message do you hope your fans take away from the video?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sam Backoff: We want the fans to remember that you usually have the most fun when things don\u2019t go as planned so just roll with it. It all depends on your outlook.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How did it feel to see the finished product for the first tim<\/strong>e?<\/p>\n<p>Sami Bearden: We just thought, WOW. A badass FEMALE director, makeup artists, dope stylists and good lighting does wonders for the ol\u2019 self-esteem.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><em>Songwriters: Sam Backoff, Savana Santos, Sami Bearden, Summer Overstreet; Director: Mara<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1821207\/avenue-beat-ruin-that-for-me-video\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by CMT.com Staff 12m ago The young women of Avenue Beat are showing that it\u2019s possible to stay positive after a breakup in their new video, \u201cRuin That For Me.\u201d Rather than moping around, they effortlessly blend their voices to provide encouragement to their fans in a similar situation. Composed of Savana Santos, Sam Backoff, [&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-1320086","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-16 04:14:29","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\/1320086","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=1320086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1320086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1320086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1320086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}