{"id":1974430,"date":"2025-08-22T14:02:05","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T14:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1974430"},"modified":"2025-08-22T14:02:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T14:02:05","slug":"bigxthaplug-is-where-country-is-now-thats-a-good-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/bigxthaplug-is-where-country-is-now-thats-a-good-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"BigXThaPlug Is Where Country Is Now. 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Its Southern-fried vibe and BigX\u2019s \u00adbooming, honey-dipped voice helped put him on the radar of multiple artists operating in the country sphere, including Jelly Roll, who invited BigX to the Stagecoach festival.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><em>I Hope You\u2019re Happy<\/em> is the result of that cross-pollination; it\u2019s clearly intended to appeal to country listeners who don\u2019t mind when Kane Brown or Morgan Wallen drop a hip-hop \u00adsignifier or two into their songs. Trap snares flit around the project, but its heart is on Music Row, with stadium-\u00adready hooks sung by country chart-toppers like affable everyman Luke Combs and TikTok-born sensation Bailey Zimmerman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>More from Rolling Stone<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Much of <em>Happy<\/em> focuses on tear-in-the-beer heartbreak, although BigX\u2019s lyrical nuance adds depth to those feelings \u2014 on the title track, he circles the self-pity of Darius Rucker\u2019s drawled chorus with pulled-taffy vocals offering sincere well-wishing, while his hexing of an ex on the Ella Langley-assisted \u201cHell at Night\u201d is ice cold. The project\u2019s most intriguing offering is \u201c24-7,\u201d a lusty country-soul cut with blasts of brass, a frizzled guitar solo, and an incendiary chorus belted by the singer-songwriter INK, a newly minted artist who\u2019s been writing hits (\u201cLuther,\u201d \u201cTexas Hold \u2019Em\u201d) for a minute.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In a way, <em>I Hope You\u2019re Happy<\/em> is a temperature check for where country is in the back half of 2025. Raspy guys (Jelly Roll, Zimmerman, Thomas Rhett) are in, especially when they\u2019re brooding; alt-rock-\u00adinspired touches like the stomping and hollering \u00adchorus of \u201cHome,\u201d which pairs BigX with genre-bending phenom Shaboozey, and minor-key maelstroms like \u201cPray Hard,\u201d where Combs and BigX team up for a gratitude-fueled victory lap, are also hot. BigXthaPlug offers a compelling invitation to other artists who have been thinking about giving genre flights of fancy a shot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>Best of Rolling Stone<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Sign up for <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cloud.email.rollingstone.com\/signup\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:RollingStone's Newsletter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">RollingStone&#8217;s Newsletter<\/a>. 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