{"id":805167,"date":"2020-03-12T10:48:56","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T16:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=966244"},"modified":"2020-03-12T10:48:56","modified_gmt":"2020-03-12T16:48:56","slug":"dance-monkey-singer-tones-and-i-parses-fame-in-cant-be-happy-all-the-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/dance-monkey-singer-tones-and-i-parses-fame-in-cant-be-happy-all-the-time\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Dance Monkey\u2019 Singer Tones and I Parses Fame in \u2018Can\u2019t Be Happy All the Time\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/TonesandI.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Fresh off the success of her hit single \u201cDance Monkey,\u201d Australian artist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/tones-and-i\/\" id=\"auto-tag_tones-and-i\" data-tag=\"tones-and-i\">Tones and I<\/a> released two new songs on Thursday. \u201cBad Child\u201d and \u201cCan\u2019t Be Happy All the Time\u201d mark her first releases since 2019\u2019s <em>The Kids Are Coming<\/em> EP.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve always wanted to write a song in someone else\u2019s shoes, writing from their perspective,\u201d Tones said regarding \u201cBad Child.\u201d \u201c[This song] was the first time I got to do that. It\u2019s seeing life growing up through someone else\u2019s eyes. This is the first of a bunch of songs I\u2019m releasing this year and I can\u2019t wait to share more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/weaqSDWdU3k?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>On \u201cCan\u2019t Be Happy All the Time,\u201d she noted, \u201cThis is a song about the struggles of rising to fame so quickly and dealing with a dramatic change in lifestyle \u2014 the good <em>and<\/em> bad the comes with it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tones and I recently completed her first-ever headlining tour through North America \u2014 including performances on <em>The Ellen DeGeneres Show <\/em>and NBC\u2019s <em>Today<\/em> \u2014 and is now onto playing shows in Europe and U.K. She\u2019ll be returning to the U.S. and Canada in April, with stops in Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Philadelphia and Toronto, along with two nights in New York City.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3> Popular on Rolling Stone <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/tones-and-i-bad-child-cant-be-happy-all-the-time-966244\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fresh off the success of her hit single \u201cDance Monkey,\u201d Australian artist Tones and I released two new songs on Thursday. \u201cBad Child\u201d and \u201cCan\u2019t Be Happy All the Time\u201d mark her first releases since 2019\u2019s The Kids Are Coming EP. \u201cI\u2019ve always wanted to write a song in someone else\u2019s shoes, writing from their [&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-805167","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-19 10:17:02","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\/805167","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=805167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}