{"id":2415596,"date":"2026-05-13T20:47:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T20:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2415596"},"modified":"2026-05-13T20:47:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T20:47:13","slug":"brian-fallon-returns-with-new-singles-not-bad-for-new-jersey-and-better-before-his-first-solo-music-in-five-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/brian-fallon-returns-with-new-singles-not-bad-for-new-jersey-and-better-before-his-first-solo-music-in-five-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian Fallon returns with new singles &#8220;Not Bad For New Jersey\u201d and \u201cBetter Before&#8221;, his first solo music in five years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The tracks, produced by longtime collaborator Butch Walker (Green Day, Jesse Malin, Taylor Swift), see Fallon combine power pop and heartland rock. They were recorded at Walker&#8217;s studio outside of Nashville, with \u201cBetter Before\u201d \u2013 co-written with his close friend and singer-songwriter Donovan Woods \u2013 centring on an unravelling romance, while \u201cNot Bad For New Jersey\u201d serves as an homage to Fallon\u2019s home state.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking about &#8220;Not Bad For New Jersey&#8221;, Fallon says, \u201c\u2018Not Bad for New Jersey\u2019 is my way of celebrating what I do and where I\u2019m from,\u201d says Brian Fallon. \u201cI wrote that song looking back on my life the way you do after almost ending up in a crash \u2013 like, \u2018How did I make it through that?\u2019 I really could\u2019ve busted myself open somewhere along the way, but somehow I\u2019m still here, and I\u2019m still in one piece.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The new songs arrive just as Fallon is set to play a run of intimate shows throughout June, before joining Bruce Springsteen, Rosanne Cash, Kenny Chesney, and more for <em>Music America: The Songs That Shaped Us \u2013 Celebrating 250 Years of American Music<\/em>, a one-off concert taking place on 4 June ahead of the grand opening of the new Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music at Monmouth University on 7 June. The event will feature Fallon and his fellow artists performing songs from American music history, celebrating America\u2019s semiquincentennial and the Springsteen Centre\u2019s grand opening.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/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 www.thelineofbestfit.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tracks, produced by longtime collaborator Butch Walker (Green Day, Jesse Malin, Taylor Swift), see Fallon combine power pop and heartland rock. They were recorded at Walker&#8217;s studio outside of Nashville, with \u201cBetter Before\u201d \u2013 co-written with his close friend and singer-songwriter Donovan Woods \u2013 centring on an unravelling romance, while \u201cNot Bad For New [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2415597,"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":[],"class_list":["post-2415596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Brian-Fallon-returns-with-new-singles-Not-Bad-For-New.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2415596","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=2415596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2415596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2415598,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2415596\/revisions\/2415598"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2415597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2415596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2415596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2415596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}