{"id":17933,"date":"2023-11-29T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-29T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aata.dev\/?p=17933"},"modified":"2023-11-24T15:24:33","modified_gmt":"2023-11-24T15:24:33","slug":"zach-bryan-bags-big-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aata.dev\/index.php\/2023\/11\/29\/zach-bryan-bags-big-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"ZACH BRYAN BAGS BIG AWARDS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Norman Warwick notices that<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

ZACH BRYAN BAGS BIG AWARDS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In an article published in Sidetracks and Detours last week I boasted about \u00b4already\u00b4 having some Zach Bryan (left)<\/strong> music on my personal playlists.  I suppose I made it sound as if he had just burst on to the scene and I was perhaps I was  a bit ahead of the game in listening to him so soon. However, almost immediately after we had gone to press I learned I had actually comae late to the party !<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So, let me apologise and give you a slightly more accurate account.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zach Bryan<\/a> has made Billboard Music Award<\/a> (BBMA) history as the first country artist to win Top New Artist in the history of the awards. Bryan beat out Jelly Roll<\/a>, (right<\/em><\/strong>) Bailey Zimmerman, Ice Spice<\/a>, and Peso Pluma for the Top New Artist win. The country singer and songwriter also picked three awards in the rock categories, including Top Rock Artist, Top Rock Album for American Heartbreak<\/em>, and Top Country Song for his 2022 hit \u201cSomething in the Orange.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Along with his win for Top Rock Song for \u201cSomething in the Orange,\u201d Bryan was nominated a second time in the category for \u201cI Remember Everything,\u201d featuring Kacey Musgraves<\/a>. (left)<\/em><\/strong> Bryan is also up for Top Male Artist and is up against Morgan Wallen and Luke Combs, which would also be another first for a country artist winning in the category.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His other 2023 nominations include Top Male Artist, Top Country Artist, Top Male Country Artist, Top Country Album for American Heartbreak<\/em>, and Top Streaming Songs Artist. He was also nominated in the new BBMA categories Top Hot 100 Songwriter, and Top Hot 100 Producer, which was awarded to Joey Moi earlier in the evening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Released in May 2022, Bryan\u2019s third album American Heartbreak<\/em> (righjt)<\/em><\/strong>  went to No. 1 on the Billboard <\/em>Top Country and Top Rock Albums charts, while single \u201cSomething in the Orange\u201d topped the Country and Rock charts, and peaked at No. 10 on the Billboard <\/em>Hot 100<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2017, Bryan began uploading his music on YouTube and went viral with his song \u201cHeading South.\u201d The Oklahoma singer and songwriter released his debut album DeAnn<\/em>\u2014dedicated to his late mother\u2014in 2019, and follow-up to Elisabeth<\/em>, a year later. Both albums were released while Bryan was still active in the U.S. Navy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bryan recently released his fourth eponymous album in 2023, which went to No. 1 on the Billboard <\/em>200, Country, Rock, and Folk charts. His Musgraves collaboration from the album, \u201cI Remember Everything,\u201d also topped the Billboard<\/em> Hot 100, along with the Country and Rock charts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Weaved into the 34 tracks of American Heartbreak<\/em>, \u201cSomething In The Orange\u201d talks about a longing love and heartache, but it was mostly inspired by a stunning sunset Bryan caught one night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEveryone thinks it was over some deep, dark thing, and it was just me in a cabin in Wisconsin,\u201d said Bryan<\/a>. \u201cI thought about the word \u2018orange\u2019 and I was watching the sunset and I was like, \u2018Oh, that\u2019s a cool story to tell in a song.’\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the song, the narrator has come to terms with the end of the relationship, though he still tries to fool himself into thinking there\u2019s still a glimmer of hope<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Something in the orange tells me we\u2019re not done<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

And I\u2019m damned if I do and I\u2019m damned if I don\u2019t
Cause if I say I miss you I know that you won\u2019t
But I miss you in the mornings when I see the sun
Something in the orange tells me we\u2019re not done<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

To you I\u2019m just a man, to me you\u2019re all I am
Where the hell am I supposed to go?I poisoned myself again
Something in the orange tells me you\u2019re never coming home<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Metaphorically, the sunset, \u201cThe Orange,\u201d stands for the end of his love affair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you leave today, I\u2019ll just stare at the way<\/em>
The orange touches all things around
The grass, trees and dew, how I just hate you
Please turn those headlights around<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are two versions of \u201cSomething In The Orange.\u201d There\u2019s a more somber, stripped-back \u201cSomething In the Orange\u201d recorded at Electric Lady Studio in New York City and produced and mixed by Eddie Spear, dubbed the Z & E (stands for Zach and Eddie) version. The second is a sweeping rendition with strings and piano, produced and mixed by Ryan Hadlock at Bear Creek Studio in Washington State.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Produced by Eddie Spear, Louie Nice, and Ryan Hadlock and written entirely by Bryan, American Heartbreak<\/em> is a culmination of five years of songs inspired by the artist\u2019s life and love with other hits, including \u201cThe Good I\u2019ll Do<\/a>,\u201d \u201cHighway Boys\u201d and the chart-topping \u201cFrom Austin.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cSomething In The Orange\u201d also reached No. 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was also nominated for a Grammy for Best Country Solo Performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI would say true love of anything is supposed to rip your heart out and put it back together all in the same go-round,\u201d said Bryan on the meaning of the album in a statement. \u201cThis album to me is all the trials we face day in and day out and I wrote all the stories on it hoping someone, somewhere might relate or some kid might pick up an instrument and replicate it in an effort to be an artist.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bryan added, \u201cSome songs are sad, some are happy, some are hopeful, and some are hopeless, all of them mean something different to me and I pray they mean something to someone else. American Heartbreak<\/em> is my effort at trying to explain what being a 26-year-old man in America is like. There\u2019s love, loss, revelry, resentment, and forgiveness all wrapped into one piece of work.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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