{"id":807667,"date":"2020-05-21T09:17:23","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T15:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=1002599"},"modified":"2020-05-21T09:17:23","modified_gmt":"2020-05-21T15:17:23","slug":"song-you-need-to-know-karlea-boyer-i-could-use-a-drink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/song-you-need-to-know-karlea-boyer-i-could-use-a-drink\/","title":{"rendered":"Song You Need to Know: Karlea Boyer, \u2018I Could Use a Drink\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/KARLEA-1-Karlea-Boyer-CREDIT_-Kenneth-Cappello.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/karlea-boyer\/\" id=\"auto-tag_karlea-boyer\" data-tag=\"karlea-boyer\">Karlea Boyer<\/a> is having a hard time wrapping her head around a break-up. She doesn\u2019t need much besides maybe some Hennessy with her besties on \u201cI Could Use a Drink.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Boyer sings with gusto about how she\u2019s processing her broken heart, no longer wanting to cry or think about what she\u2019s going through. As she envisions the escapist fun of drinking with her friends, the song bubbles into pop bliss. \u201cI Could Use a Drink\u201d feels like a lost Pussycat Dolls hit with its dance-pop lightheartedness that is prime for dance floors once it\u2019s safe to once again be crowding with friends on one. Until then, the single is good enough to prompt a few solo, tipsy, at-home dance parties when necessary.<\/p>\n<p>Born in China and raised in Kansas, Boyer worked as a model prior to launching her music career. \u201cI Could Use a Drink\u201d is her official debut.<\/p>\n<p><em>Find a playlist of all of our recent Songs You Need to Know selections&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/playlist\/4z2ebTTKukc34eMDlqrnW4?si=mwZhc_Q_TeeZkOYCOwBiXA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">on Spotify.<\/a><\/em><\/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\/karlea-i-could-use-a-drink-debut-1002599\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karlea Boyer is having a hard time wrapping her head around a break-up. She doesn\u2019t need much besides maybe some Hennessy with her besties on \u201cI Could Use a Drink.\u201d Boyer sings with gusto about how she\u2019s processing her broken heart, no longer wanting to cry or think about what she\u2019s going through. As she [&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-807667","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-10 13:02:07","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":"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\/807667","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=807667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}