{"id":441,"date":"2022-11-07T12:55:17","date_gmt":"2022-11-07T12:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zfmcountry.com.au\/?p=441"},"modified":"2022-11-07T12:55:17","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T12:55:17","slug":"brittany-maggs-when-it-was-easy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zfmcountry.com.au\/index.php\/2022\/11\/07\/brittany-maggs-when-it-was-easy\/","title":{"rendered":"Brittany Maggs &#8211; When It Was Easy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Rising country artist Brittany Maggs is thrilled to be releasing her new single, &#8216;When It Was Easy&#8217; on Friday 4 November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8216;When It Was Easy&#8217; takes you on a journey back in time. It has a nostalgic feel that brings a sense of longing for when life was a little more straight forward. In contrast to this is the upbeat and energetic production which welcomes a light-hearted sentiment of summer fun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brittany wrote this song for all the people who felt the last few years stopped them in their tracks. &#8220;I used to love staying out late and partying and hanging out with friends, but with everything that happened, I almost lost a part of my youth and a lot of social opportunities. I&#8217;m happy with my life now, but at times I do wish I was 19 again and the world hadn&#8217;t completely shut down&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The accompanying music video, shot by Golden Guitar award winning Jay Seeney,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>continues the theme and features Brittany enjoying one of her favourite parts of Sydney.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brittney&#8217;s most recent single released earlier this year, &#8216;Carefree&#8217; has had more than 335,000 streams on Spotify and was added to hotly contested playlists including Spotify&#8217;s Fresh Country and New Music Friday Country, and Apple Music&#8217;s Country Risers, Aussie Country, and Little Bit Country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The &#8216;Carefree&#8217; video has surpassed 50,000 views on YouTube and was added to YouTube&#8217;s Country&#8217;s New Crop in both the United States and Australia and Incoming Country playlists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A country girl at heart, Brittany grew up in Sydney&#8217;s north-west and loves spending time on the family property with her horses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After spending four years in Los Angeles developing her sound, Brittany decided it was time to come home to Sydney, where she has since been working on her original music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This year Brittany has performed at the Tamworth Country Music Festival, the Cowra Festival alongside Adam Brand and opened for the McAllister Kemp Tour earlier this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 23-year-old has gained an impressive following on social media, boasting more than 40 million views on YouTube and more than 380,000 fans on TikTok.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rising country artist Brittany Maggs is thrilled to be releasing her new single, &#8216;When It Was Easy&#8217; on Friday 4 November. &#8216;When It Was Easy&#8217; takes you on a journey back in time. It has a nostalgic feel that brings a sense of longing for when life was a little more straight forward. In contrast &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/zfmcountry.com.au\/index.php\/2022\/11\/07\/brittany-maggs-when-it-was-easy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Brittany Maggs &#8211; When It Was Easy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zfmcountry.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zfmcountry.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zfmcountry.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zfmcountry.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zfmcountry.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/zfmcountry.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zfmcountry.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zfmcountry.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zfmcountry.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}