{"id":1320366,"date":"2020-06-05T12:18:31","date_gmt":"2020-06-05T18:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1821804"},"modified":"2020-06-05T12:18:31","modified_gmt":"2020-06-05T18:18:31","slug":"after-seeing-hate-and-oppression-mickey-guyton-wrote-this-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/after-seeing-hate-and-oppression-mickey-guyton-wrote-this-song\/","title":{"rendered":"After Seeing Hate and Oppression, Mickey Guyton Wrote This Song"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:ao:image:cmt.com:693235?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\/shelburnec\/\" title=\"Posts by Craig Shelburne\" rel=\"author\">Craig Shelburne<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"date\">57m ago<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/artists\/mickey-guyton\">Mickey Guyton<\/a> is making a statement with her personal new song, \u201cBlack Like Me.\u201d While topics of racism and equality dominate the headlines, these topical lyrics speak for themselves: \u201cIt\u2019s a hard life on easy street. Just white painted picket fences far as you can see. If you think we live in the land of the free, you should try to be black like me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For years, Guyton has been discussing <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/4639707\/mickey-guyton-american-voices\/\">diversity in country music<\/a> from her perspective as an African American woman. Now, interviews aren\u2019t the only platform she\u2019s using to speak up. To quote her Instagram bio, \u201cThey say, \u2019shut up and sing.\u2019 So I put what I have to say in my songs.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BKximTk8JCM?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\/BKximTk8JCM?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>\u201cBlack Like Me\u201d is one such example. The title comes from a book she read in college by John Howard Griffin, a white man who darkened his skin to experience what life would be like for a black man in the South in the 1960s. Although the phrase had lingered in her mind, it took a writing retreat with Nathan Chapman, Fraser Churchill and black British songwriter Emma DD to bring the full song to fruition.<\/p>\n<p>On <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CA60i0QnFCp\/\">Instagram<\/a>, Guyton writes in part: \u201cOur world is on fire right now. There is so much division and hate. I wrote this song over a year ago because I was so tired of seeing so much hate and oppression. And yet here we are in the exact same place! We must change that. I hope this song can give you a small glimpse into what my brothers and sisters have endured for 400+ years.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CA60i0QnFCp\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"12\"><\/blockquote>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1821804\/after-seeing-hate-and-oppression-mickey-guyton-wrote-this-song\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Craig Shelburne 57m ago Mickey Guyton is making a statement with her personal new song, \u201cBlack Like Me.\u201d While topics of racism and equality dominate the headlines, these topical lyrics speak for themselves: \u201cIt\u2019s a hard life on easy street. Just white painted picket fences far as you can see. If you think we [&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-1320366","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 07:23:07","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\/1320366","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=1320366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1320366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1320366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1320366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}