{"id":542306,"date":"2015-03-23T17:59:52","date_gmt":"2015-03-23T23:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/?p=542306"},"modified":"2015-03-23T17:59:52","modified_gmt":"2015-03-23T23:59:52","slug":"happy-birthday-brett-eldredge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/articles\/happy-birthday-brett-eldredge\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, Brett Eldredge!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Birthday,<strong> Brett Eldredge<\/strong>! The CMA\u2019s reigning <em>New Artist of the Year<\/em> turns 29 today (Monday), and to celebrate, we\u2019ve compiled some of our favorite Brett facts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brett\u2019s a sucker for a woman\u2019s eyes.\u00a0 <\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cIt doesn\u2019t matter eye color,\u201d Brett says. \u201cOn my first album, <em>Bring You Back<\/em>, I had several songs about blue eyes and girls were like, \u2018What about green eyes?!\u2019 \u2018What about brown eyes?!\u2019 It doesn\u2019t matter the color. It\u2019s just the way they pull you in. That\u2019s the thing that really grabs me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brett\u2019s never been arrested, and he hopes to keep it that way.<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cHopefully that never happens,\u201d he says. \u201cI feel like I\u2019m pretty well behaved. But I like to have a good time &#8212; but never arresting kind of things, hopefully.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>It shocks Brett to know that folks look up to him musically.<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cThere are so many people I wanted to be,\u201d he says, \u201cand it\u2019s really crazy for me that I am now somebody that people are inspired by. That\u2019s so weird to think about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brett loves his mom, Robin. At the 2014 <em>CMA Awards<\/em>, he paused mid-questioning backstage to give her a shout out.<br \/>\n<\/strong>Excited over his first CMA win, Brett pointed out, \u201cI found my mom! There\u2019s my mom right there! I\u2019ve been looking for her. Mom! There she is! OK. I waved at her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brett is fresh off a third-consecutive number-one hit with \u201cMean to Me,\u201d and he\u2019s looking for his next adventure. Tweet your suggestions\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bretteldredge\">@BrettEldredge<\/a> with the hashtag #BrettsNextAdventure.<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"GAbcM4wmOr4\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Brett Eldredge - The Couch Sessions: &quot;Mean To Me&quot;\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GAbcM4wmOr4?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Birthday, Brett Eldredge! The CMA\u2019s reigning New Artist of the Year turns 29 today (Monday), and to celebrate, we\u2019ve compiled some of our favorite Brett facts. Brett\u2019s a sucker for a woman\u2019s eyes.\u00a0 \u201cIt doesn\u2019t matter eye color,\u201d Brett says. \u201cOn my first album, Bring You Back, I had several songs about blue eyes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":542307,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-542306","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-articles"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 02:19:48","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\/542306","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}