If you kinda looked at my social media over the last couple yearsI've been writing so much with so many different people and over theLast couple years I've written like 150, 200 songs and every time weGet in the studio, we're like, "What are we gonna do with all theseSongs?" because so many of them hold such a special place in my heartAnd after Country Again: Side A was complete, obviously the normalThing to do would be like, "Okay, well, Country Again: Side B's gonnaCome out next." And as we started working on that record, I wroteThis one song called "Where We Started" and this song, for someReason, spurred a lot of other songs that kinda followed suit with itAnd when we got in the studio and recorded this song, it kindaStarted becoming a different project. It kinda started becoming notCountry Again: Side B, what I wanted it to be and as we startedTalking, you know, with the label and our team, kinda like in the wayThat movies work, it's like Batman comes out and then Superman comesOut and then Batman 2 comes out. It just kinda felt off-kilter andThose are the kinda things that I love to do and this album seemed toBe such a great middle ground between the two. I think on this record, I just didn't wanna hold back on what I feel on a daily basis. TheVery first track on the record is called "The Hill." It's the onlySong that I didn't write on this album but my friend Jordan ReynoldsSent it to me and when I heard it, I just broke down in tearsI was like, "Holy crap, this is really sad," and I'm a sucker forA sad song but it's also extremely redemptive and I don't knowBetween that song and "Angels" and "Where We Started," I think I'mKnown as like the love song guy, you know? And it's alwaysButterflies and roses and we don't have any problems and all thisKinda stuff and, you know, after my wife's book was released and itKinda got into the details of just our marriage and, you know, theUps and downs that we've been on, it was just like, well, man, whyNot talk about those real emotions that I experience in my marriageAnd a lot of people experience in their marriage and kinda put itOut there, you know? I think songwriting, if it's not based on theMost honest of truthfulness, then what's the point of saying it?It's pretty interesting listening to "The Hill" and the next song is"Church Boots." Like I love taking people on those emotional rollerCoasters, if you will. I like to make you cry but then I like toImmediately make you smile and then once you smile, I want you toDance and then once you dance, I want you to cry again and IDon't know, my last few records have kinda been in that kind ofWeird sequencing and it's something that I really enjoy from aRecord listener. I like to be completely caught off-guard everyTime I hit the next track and that's kinda what this record isAnd it's fun but it's also reflective and sad and happy but that'sLife. You know, I think every day you kinda go through all theseEmotions and especially after, you know, a year, you kindaReflect and you go, "Man, March was hard but April was great andJune was a party and July was this" and I think music is so relatedTo what life is and to me, that's what this record was about
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Thomas Rhett Akins, Jr. (Valdosta, Georgia; 30 de marzo de 1990), más conocido por su nombre artístico Thomas Rhett, es un cantante y compositor de country pop estadounidense. Es el hijo del también cantante y compositor de música country, Rhett Akins. Thomas…
