{"id":2035100,"date":"2025-09-19T18:41:25","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T18:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2035100"},"modified":"2025-09-19T18:41:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T18:41:25","slug":"colin-stough-throws-down-20-bucks-with-new-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/colin-stough-throws-down-20-bucks-with-new-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Colin Stough throws down &#8217;20 Bucks&#8217; with new song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<h4>The song is the latest from the\u00a0<em>American Idol<\/em> contestant<\/h4>\n<p>19 Recordings\/BMG Nashville artist Colin Stough turns up the volume on his Southern rock-country edge with the release of \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3VKCgm1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">20 Bucks<\/a>,\u201d out now. Bold and uncompromising, the Mississippi native\u2014who rose to national recognition as a Top 5 finalist on ABC\u2019s <em>American Idol<\/em> in 2023 and has amassed over 80 million streams\u2014delivers a powerful performance marked by gritty vocals and a rebellious swagger.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u201920 Bucks\u2019 is that moment when you\u2019re down on your luck, she\u2019s gone with another man, money\u2019s tight\u2014but you\u2019re still out here trying to have a good time,\u201d shares Stough.<\/p>\n<p>Raw, unflinching, and soaked in Southern grit, \u201c20 Bucks\u201d finds Colin Stough channeling heartbreak into an edgy anthem. Penned by Stough, along with Kevin Monahan and Will Pattat, and produced by James LeBlanc and Phillip White, the biting honesty of the track captures the sting of betrayal, the temptation of vices, and the struggle of scraping by with little more than twenty dollars to ease the pain. Fueled by distorted guitars, swagger, and Stough\u2019s unapologetically rough-edged vocals, \u201c20 Bucks\u201d turns heartache into a battle cry for anyone who\u2019s ever been cheated on, left behind, or pushed to their breaking point.<\/p>\n<p>Born and raised on the Mississippi-Alabama line, 21-year-old Colin Stough was brought up on Southern rock and second chances. A self-taught guitarist and gravel-voiced storyteller influenced by The Allman Brothers, Conway Twitty, and Koe Wetzel, he first picked up a guitar at age eight, later trading in his prized possessions for a pawn shop acoustic \u2014 one he still plays today. After high school, he worked full-time as an HVAC tech until his mom pushed him to audition for <em>American Idol Season 21<\/em>. That leap launched a life-changing ride: a standout third-place finish, a deal with 19 Recordings\/BMG Nashville, and breakout songs like \u201cSober,\u201d \u201cTil The Day One Does,\u201d and 2025\u2019s hard-edged anthem, \u201cWhite Trash.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With a skinned-raw vocal and lyrics carved from lived experience, Stough has built a loyal following of over 800k across social platforms. His EPs <em>Promiseland<\/em> and <em>Lookin\u2019 For Home<\/em> offer a no-frills portrait of a young man navigating life with Southern grit, and his latest song, \u201c20 Bucks,\u201d keeps with the no-holds-barred theme.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Colin Stough - 20 Bucks (Official Audio)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mX9tHxYu8qw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source themusicuniverse.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The song is the latest from the\u00a0American Idol contestant 19 Recordings\/BMG Nashville artist Colin Stough turns up the volume on his Southern rock-country edge with the release of \u201c20 Bucks,\u201d out now. Bold and uncompromising, the Mississippi native\u2014who rose to national recognition as a Top 5 finalist on ABC\u2019s American Idol in 2023 and has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2035101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[375647],"class_list":["post-2035100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-colin-stough"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Colin-Stough-throws-down-20-Bucks-with-new-song.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2035100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2035100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2035100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2035101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2035100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2035100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2035100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}