{"id":792551,"date":"2019-01-30T14:08:35","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T21:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=784577"},"modified":"2019-01-30T14:08:35","modified_gmt":"2019-01-30T21:08:35","slug":"ajr-return-with-catchy-goofy-happy-single-100-bad-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/ajr-return-with-catchy-goofy-happy-single-100-bad-days\/","title":{"rendered":"AJR Return With Catchy, Goofy, Happy Single \u2018100 Bad Days\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/10021814jW.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Pop-rock sibling crew <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/ajr\/\" id=\"auto-tag_ajr\" data-tag=\"ajr\">AJR<\/a> are back with a song about finding the bright side of a total bummer. On their new single \u201c100 Bad Days,\u201d the band of brothers sing about getting dumped, drunkenly injuring oneself, underperforming as a recording artist (\u201cI wrote a song that no one knows\/I played a show and no one showed\u201d) and other unpleasant experiences \u2014 only to find the silver lining in each one.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c100 bad days made 100 good stories\/100 good stories make me interesting at parties,\u201d they sing in the uplifting, pitch-shifted hook. (Way to keep it positive, guys!) It\u2019s a catchy song, blending motivational pop vibes, light orchestral flourishes and more into a smooth whirl.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<span lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\">As a band, and as guys in their twenties, most of our experiences end in rejection, failure, and bad days,\u201d the band\u2019s three members said in a joint statement. \u201cWe wanted to write a realistic look at that.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>AJR are currently doing well at pop radio with their previous single, \u201cBurn the House Down,\u201d which was adopted as a semi-official anthem against gun violence by the March For Our Lives. \u201cWe\u2019re not leaders; I\u2019m not going to lead a resistance,\u201d Ryan Met <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/ajr-on-their-march-for-our-lives-anthem-and-the-upside-of-being-a-sibling-band-666999\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told <em>Rolling Stone<\/em><\/a> last year. \u201cBut me as a twentysomething is trying to figure out where I fit in [and] how much of a voice do I actually have.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The band has several European shows planned this year, along with appearances at Bonnaroo, Firefly and other festivals.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/ajr-100-bad-days-new-song-784577\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pop-rock sibling crew AJR are back with a song about finding the bright side of a total bummer. On their new single \u201c100 Bad Days,\u201d the band of brothers sing about getting dumped, drunkenly injuring oneself, underperforming as a recording artist (\u201cI wrote a song that no one knows\/I played a show and no one [&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":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-792551","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 06:11:18","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":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}