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GRAMMYs Behind the Song: Meghan Trainor –‘All About That Bass’
By Annie Reuter Meghan Trainor brought us “All About That Bass” last year and as a result, her single has been nominated for two GRAMMYs including Record of the Year and Song of the Year. The...
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GRAMMYs Behind the Song: Paramore –‘Ain’t It Fun’
By Shannon Carlin Hayley Williams wrote Paramore‘s “Ain’t It Fun” as a tongue in cheek way of telling herself to grow up already. It ended up being a symbol of not only Williams’ own maturity but also...
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GRAMMYs Behind the Song: Sia –‘Chandelier’
By Scott T. Sterling Sia‘s “Chandelier” is a classic case of a happy accident, a spontaneous flash of inspiration that turned into one of the biggest and most pervasive hits of 2014. “I guess the...
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GRAMMYs Behind the Song: Taylor Swift ‘Shake It Off’
By Annie Reuter When Taylor Swift sat down to write her now three-time-GRAMMY-nominated hit “Shake It Off” from her “first documented official pop album,” 1989, she wanted to create a song that got...
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GRAMMYs Behind The Song: Pharrell Williams –‘Happy’
By Scott T. Sterling One of the most ubiquitous songs of 2014 almost didn’t happen. The way Pharrell Williams describes the creation of his worldwide hit, “Happy,” it was the result of much pressure...
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GRAMMYs Behind the Song: Jack White ‘Lazaretto’
By Brian Ives At the turn of the millennium, when the White Stripes exploded onto the mainstream music scene with their classic White Blood Cells album (which featured the classic “Fell In Love With a...
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GRAMMYs Behind the Song: Iggy Azalea Feat. Charli XCX –‘Fancy’
By Kevin Rutherford You’ve got a lot of nerve calling your debut album The New Classic. But then again, when your first single from that album shoots up the charts, puts the competition in a...
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Behind the Song: Kacey Musgraves –‘Follow Your Arrow’
By Annie Reuter “Well I hope it gets attention because I think it’s definitely time for those issues to be accepted in country music,” Kacey Musgraves tells us about her ACM-nominated song “Follow Your...
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Behind the Song: Florida Georgia Line –‘This Is How We Roll’
By Annie Reuter Cole Swindell and Luke Bryan, two of the artists who wrote “This Is How We Roll” with Florida Georgia Line, share with us how the song came to be. As Swindell recalls, all three artists...
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Behind the Song: The Cadillac Three –‘The South’
By Annie Reuter When The Cadillac Three‘s Jaren Johnston sat down to write “The South,” he wanted the track to be “an epic, Southern song that hits you immediately the first time you hear it. You know...
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Behind the Song: Miranda Lambert –‘Automatic’
By Shannon Carlin If you want to know how Miranda Lambert really feels about the current state of the world—particularly its reliance on technology—just listen to “Automatic.” Lambert wrote the song...
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Behind the Song: Florida Georgia Line –‘Dirt’
By Scott T. Sterling Ever since the term “bro-country” hit music vernacular, Nashville duo Florida Georgia Line have been considered one of its primary proponents. Scoring legions of fans through a...
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Behind the Song: Luke Bryan –‘Drink A Beer’
By Courtney E. Smith One of the most affecting singles from Luke Bryan’s Crash My Party is “Drink A Beer.” The track, written by Jim Beavers and Chris Stapleton, tells the story of a man missing...
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Behind the Song: Kenny Chesney –‘American Kids’
By Brian Ives Kenny Chesney took a year off from the road in 2014 to give himself ample time to work on his ambitious latest album, The Big Revival. That’s no small decision considering Chesney’s 2013...
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Behind the Song: Lee Brice – ‘I Don’t Dance’
By Kurt Wolff It’s been a high-rotation radio hit and received numerous accolades, including Single of the Year nomination at the 50th ACM Awards, but Lee Brice‘s single “I Don’t Dance” actually had...
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Behind the Song: Dierks Bentley – ‘Drunk on a Plane’
By Kurt Wolff One of 2014’s biggest country hits was almost a song about a hurricane. Instead, thanks to the power of collaboration that happens so often among Nashville’s songwriting community, the...
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Behind the Song: Keith Urban – ‘Cop Car’
By Annie Reuter Country music is well known for its storytelling. Keith Urban‘s “Cop Car” exemplifies this point. Written by Sam Hunt, Zack Crowell and Matt Jenkins, the ACM Award-nominated song hit...
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Behind the Song: Tim McGraw and Faith Hill – ‘Meanwhile Back at Mama’s’
By Kurt Wolff According to Jaren Johnston, when he, Tom Douglas and Jeffrey Steele initially wrote their song “Meanwhile Back at Mama’s,” they never intended for it to be a duet. “[We] just wrote a...
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Behind The Song: Chris Stapleton- “Traveller”
By Brian Ives “If you ever get the chance to drive through the desert, I think you should.” Sound advice from multi-GRAMMY nominee Chris Stapleton, talking about the title track of Traveller. In this...
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Little Big Town’s ‘Girl Crush’– Behind the Song
By Brian Ives Little Big Town‘s Kimberly Schlapman told Radio.com that when she first heard the demo for “Girl Crush” (which was written by Lori McKenna, Liz Rose and Hillary Lindsey) that she wondered...
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Behind The Song: Jidenna- “Classic Man”
By Brian Ives One of the newer names on this year’s GRAMMY ballot is R&B singer Jidenna, who is nominated for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration for “Classic Man” (which sees him teaming up with another...
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Behind The Song: Justin Bieber- “Where Are U Now?”
By Brian Ives Jack U‘s GRAMMY nominated “Where Are U Now?” was the first step in Justin Bieber‘s career rehab. After being absent from the music scene for a few years, Bieber began working with Jack...
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Behind The Song: Mark Ronson- “Uptown Funk”
By Brian Ives One of the absolutely unavoidable songs of 2015 was created thanks to an activity that producer Mark Ronson usually avoids: jamming in the studio. The guy has spent a good amount of time...
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Behind the Song: Robin Thicke’s ‘Blurred Lines’
One thing is clear: Robin Thicke's "Blurred Lines" was the most talked about song of the summer and now it's up for 4 GRAMMYs including Record of the Year. Thicks says it's all due to Pharrell and a...
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Behind the Song: Sara Bareilles’‘Brave’
If Sara Bareilles ends up winning the Best Pop Solo Performance GRAMMY for "Brave," she owes Sara Quin an Edible Arrangement or at least a thank you card.
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Behind the Song: Katy Perry’s ‘Roar’
"I am woman, hear me roar." It's the simple phrase that Helen Reddy sang in 1971 and 42 years later would inspire Katy Perry, along with her co-writer Bonnie McKee, to write "Roar."
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Behind The Song: Lorde’s ‘Royals’
"I think one of the first lines I wrote from that song," Lorde told Radio.com, "which was, 'We're driving Cadillacs in our dreams,' was in a diary that I had when I was like 11 or 12, so young."
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Behind the Song: Darius Rucker’s ‘Wagon Wheel’
“When I heard ‘Wagon Wheel’ at my daughter’s high school talent contest, I just thought, ‘Man some day I’m going to cut the song for a record.' It was one of those lightning bolt things that I can’t...
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Behind The Song: Vampire Weekend’s ‘Diane Young’
Frontman Ezra Koenig on about how their hit single from the GRAMMY-nominated 'Modern Vampires of the City' went through a rough ugly duckling stage until they figured out that vocal effect—you know the...
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Behind the Song: Hunter Hayes’‘I Want Crazy’
“‘Crazy’ was just my way of saying, ‘That’s real love. When you feel like you’ve gone crazy. That’s when you’ve actually gotten something right.’”
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Behind the Song: Kacey Musgraves’‘Merry Go ‘Round’
"When we were about to pick the first single I really lobbied for 'Merry Go 'Round' because I'm out there every night and I can tell you, hands down this is the one people are connecting with. I'm...
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Behind the Song: Tim McGraw’s ‘Highway Don’t Care’
It's a moody anthem that serves as the closing song on his 2013 album' Two Lanes of Freedom.' McGraw was drawn to it's "timeless" quality.
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Behind the Song: Miranda Lambert’s ACM-Nominated ‘Mama’s Broken Heart’
"I feel like women in my grandmother's generation were expected to put on a pretty face and not really show their crazy sides," Kacey Musgraves said, describing the ideas behind the three-time...
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Behind the Song: Blake Shelton’s ‘Boys ‘Round Here’
"'Boys Round Here' pretty much represents who I am as a human being," Shelton said of his ACM Award-nominated hit. Songwriter Dallas Davidson and producer Scott Hendricks offer details on the story...
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Behind the Song: Keith Urban’s ‘We Were Us’
Songwriter Jimmy Robbins and singer Keith Urban talk about the origins of "We Were Us," the No. 1 duet between Urban and Miranda Lambert that has been nominated for Vocal Event of the Year at the ACM...
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Behind the Song: The Band Perry’s ‘Better Dig Two’
"It was our first single for our sophomore release, which some say is the most scrutinized piece of music an artist ever puts out," Kimberly Perry told Radio.com. Now the video for the song has been...
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Behind the Song: Florida Georgia Line’s ‘Cruise’
Songwriter Chase Rice and both Tyler Hubbard and Brian Kelley of Florida Georgia Line go 'behind the song' and talk about the origins of FGL's first No. 1 hit "Cruise," which has been nominated for Two...
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Behind the Song: Lee Brice’s ‘I Drive Your Truck’
"She couldn't even say it -- she couldn't say 'I drive his truck.' She was like, 'no, I don't want to do it today.' And I was like, 'oh yeah we are!'"
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Behind the Song: Blake Shelton’s ‘Mine Would Be You’
Some songs can take a bit of time to really sink in and win over fans as well as the artists. That wasn't the case, though, with "Mine Would Be You," the No. 1 hit from Blake Shelton.
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Behind the Song: Carrie Underwood’s ‘Two Black Cadillacs’
"It’s drama, and it’s dark," said Underwood about "Two Black Cadillacs," her ACM Award-nominated song. And, she added, "you have to listen to the whole thing," because you'll be "sucked in."
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