
Cole Swindell's Chillin' It, written by Swindell and Shane Minor.
Shelton's Sure Be Cool If You Did, written by. Bryan's Drunk on You, written by Josh Kear, Chris Tompkins and Rodney Clawson. The six tracks - all top-five hits on USA TODAY's country airplay chart - were released between 20, and show some overlap in songwriters. (Church is not among the artists whose music appears on the video.) "If you're alive, you've seen it," says singer Eric Church, who says he received links to the video from another artist, a songwriter, a record-company executive, a publisher and a radio programmer. He even plays all six records at the same time briefly in the mashup.Īlthough posted in November, the video only started reverberating around Music City in the past week as it started catching fire on blogs. Greg Todd, an aspiring songwriter and the video's creator, highlights the structural and thematic similarities in contemporary country by editing songs from Luke Bryan, Blake Shelton and others so that they flow together seamlessly.
The songs couldn't sound more alike - literally.Ī YouTube video making the rounds in Nashville and among music fans everywhere shows that, when put together, six recent country music hits - each dealing with such time-honored topics as trucks, alcohol and moonlight romance - sound as if they could be the same song.