Breland On Friendship With The War and Treaty, Why Country Is Having A Moment & More | Country Power Players 2024 - video Dailymotion

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Breland caught up with Billboard's Lyndsey Havens at Country Power Players 2024.

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00:00We are here with Breeland. How's it going tonight?

00:02It's going really well. It's good to be here.

00:04You were just in a pretty epic group photo with every country artist imaginable.

00:08Tell me a bit about that.

00:09It was great. Honestly, other than Dasha, who I just met tonight,

00:13we've talked on Instagram, but, you know,

00:15Lainey and Nate and Warren Treaty and Rainer,

00:19I don't know who else was in the photo,

00:20but those are all good friends of mine and people that I've written with

00:23and put out music with and shared stages with,

00:25so all of them deserve their props tonight,

00:29and I'm really excited to be introducing Warren Treaty, their family to me,

00:33and they deserve every honor.

00:36Yeah, they are groundbreakers.

00:37Tell me a little bit how you have seen them break ground

00:40over the years in this industry.

00:42Just every time I have seen them open their mouths in public,

00:45everyone stops because they just have,

00:48not to get too spiritual or religious on it,

00:50but they have an anointing on their voices

00:52that really causes people to reflect in a different way

00:57than they do when most people sing,

01:00and I do think it's important for them to be in this space.

01:03They could win in any genre,

01:05and for them to be in country music is so powerful,

01:07and they are so welcome here,

01:09and they definitely are breaking ground.

01:11I mean, their music is fantastic,

01:13their stage presence is incredible,

01:15but also they're even better people than they are artists.

01:17Do you have a favorite memory, not even music industry related,

01:20just maybe on a personal level that you've shared with them?

01:23I mean, a bunch.

01:25Just on a kind of real life note,

01:29Mike is someone that stays in touch

01:33in a way that a lot of other artists don't,

01:34and we both lost our grandmas the same week,

01:38and that was something that we were able to share,

01:39and he's one of the only people I could really talk to about it

01:41in this industry,

01:42so just really, really quality people,

01:45and it makes me emotional to talk about them

01:46because they do feel like family to me.

01:48That's incredible.

01:49I mean, that's the whole thing about the country community, right,

01:51is it really does feel like a community and like family.

01:54100%.

01:54Our cover star, Laney Wilson,

01:56the tagline is country's cool again.

01:58Why do you feel like country's

01:59having such a moment in the spotlight right now?

02:02I think, honestly, it comes down to the songwriting.

02:05It's just really, really great music that's being made.

02:09Obviously, we have a lot of pop stars in this genre,

02:12you know, a lot of country stars that have major pop appeal,

02:15and you see that on the charts,

02:17all of these number ones from different people,

02:19and I just think people are,

02:21the culture and the country and the world,

02:24I think, is really just ready to hear great songwriting again,

02:27and Nashville has that in spades.

02:28So for artists like Laney and Morgan and Bailey

02:33and, you know, all of these people

02:36that are getting top 10 records at Billboard,

02:38it's because these songs are really well written

02:40and they resonate with people far beyond the reach

02:43that we even thought was possible.

02:45So country has always been cool in my book,

02:47but it's definitely cool again

02:49in that it's having a major cultural moment,

02:52and it's due to all of these incredible artists and songwriters

02:54that make the music happen.

02:56That was beautifully said.

02:57Thank you.

02:57You just analyzed an entire cultural moment.

02:59Thank you.

03:00Well, I will let you get in there.

03:01Have so much fun tonight.

03:02For sure, I will.

03:03Thank you.

Breland On Friendship With The War and Treaty, Why Country Is Having A Moment & More | Country Power Players 2024

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