Heartbreak is good fuel for country songs. And cheating.
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Heartbreak can definitely give you a deeper sensibility for writing songs. I drew on a lot of heartbreak when I was writing my first album, I didn't mean to but I just did.
Well the country songs themselves are three-chord stories, ballads which are mostly sad. If you are already feeling sorry for yourself when you listen to them they will take you to an even sadder place.
Country music is about new love and it's about old love.
If they're singing about heartbreak, they've lived it.
A lot of my heartbreak songs are inspired by things my sisters are going through, or friends.
As a little kid I had a girlfriend, and her boyfriend used to beat me up, so then I used to sing these songs, and that's what it's all about. Country music is all about your heart and your people and things like that.
A letdown is worth a few songs. A heartbreak is worth a few albums.
A song like 'Heartbreaker,' it's a song about learning - it's not necessarily a song about heartbreak. It's more than that. We write those songs to relive how we got over something.
Social topics may hit too close to home for people, but then again, if you pull a heartstring, then that's what country music is. It's not just songs about getting drunk and leaving your girl.
Country music fans are extremely supportive. Once they're with you, they're with you for life.