{"id":89459,"date":"2024-06-26T12:05:53","date_gmt":"2024-06-26T16:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2024\/06\/26\/that-time-tyler-hubbard-got-grounded-for-making-out-in-public-he-put-it-in-park\/"},"modified":"2024-06-26T12:05:53","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T16:05:53","slug":"that-time-tyler-hubbard-got-grounded-for-making-out-in-public-he-put-it-in-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2024\/06\/26\/that-time-tyler-hubbard-got-grounded-for-making-out-in-public-he-put-it-in-park\/","title":{"rendered":"That Time Tyler Hubbard Got Grounded for Making Out in Public? He Put It in \u2018Park\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tIt\u2019s arguably easier to figure a pitcher\u2019s earned run average than to determine a car\u2019s horsepower, and it\u2019s a good bet that the majority of drivers don\u2019t know how much horsepower their engine generates.<\/p>\n

\n\tBut nearly everyone realizes that a larger number equals more speed. So when Tyler Hubbard<\/a> brags that he has \u201c700 horses under the hood\u201d in the chorus of his new single, \u201cPark,\u201d it\u2019s easy to get what he\u2019s saying. Especially since he, like most of us, understands it more as a comparative number than one he needs to calculate.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI had a friend in college who had a super-fast car that was like a muscle car basically,\u201d Hubbard recalls. \u201cThere was 800 horsepower. It was like a race car, and I can even go to the drag strip with it and compete. So I knew like 800 horsepower is a ton of horsepower for a car. So 700 is a souped-up car for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIt\u2019s a detail that fits an automotive-themed T-Hub song.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cHe\u2019s always loved to go fast,\u201d says co-writer Canaan Smith (\u201cFamous,\u201d \u201cRunaway\u201d). \u201cBack in the day, when we first met at Belmont College, he was riding his motorcycle up and down the interstate doing wheelies at 80 miles an hour.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cPark\u201d emerged near the end of a songwriters retreat at the Gulf Coast home of Jesse Frasure (\u201cHalfway To Hell,\u201d \u201cYoung Love & Saturday Nights\u201d). A couple different teams were working simultaneously on material for Hubbard, who ricocheted from room to room as the songs developed. They\u2019d already built several by the time of the \u201cPark\u201d session, so Frasure, Smith and Ashley Gorley (\u201cI Had Some Help,\u201d \u201cI Am Not Okay\u201d) were in a position to take a few more creative risks.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThere\u2019s a little bit of a freedom when you\u2019ve got a couple in the can on a writing retreat,\u201d Frasure says. \u201cIt\u2019s very relaxing, and you\u2019re like, \u2018Okay, cool.\u2019 So you pull up some more aggressive tracks.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tFrasure purposely introduced an instrumental track he\u2019d created with a danceable tempo and a bright feel. \u201cI want to put things in the artist\u2019s pile that are fun, energetic, that you could see pyro going off on stage,\u201d Frasure says. \u201cThe more I do this, the more that\u2019s what I get excited about, because I just feel like that\u2019s the soundtrack to people\u2019s lives. People love a well-written tune, and we\u2019ll give awards to those, but I want the one that\u2019s gonna be on someone\u2019s playlist on the boat.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe track resonated in the room \u2013 Frasure\u2019s wife, Rhythm House vp Stevie Frasure, and Hubbard\u2019s wife, Hayley, were both grooving along with it \u2013 and the writers started sifting through ideas that would fit. Tyler was in the other writer room as they considered titles, and Gorley brought up the word \u201cPark,\u201d from his list. The contrast between the dance tempo and the word \u201cPark\u201d was worth exploring.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cTo me, there\u2019s a really interesting, cool flip in the storyline here,\u201d Smith says. \u201cYes, he likes to go fast, but there\u2019s nothing he\u2019d rather do than just put it in park.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWhen Tyler returned, he gave them a green light on the song, which was already in process, and they got the wheels turning on the chorus, launching into it with a line custom-made for Hubbard: \u201cI can drive you from this holler to Hollywood.\u201d The chorus explored the driving theme \u2013 the horsepower, speed and screaming tires \u2013 but made the thematic flip by the end of the chorus as the singer considers the girl riding shotgun: \u201cAll I wanna do is park.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt was just sort of a picture of young, innocent, and it\u2019s fun and a little bit risky and wild,\u201d Hubbard says. \u201cWe\u2019ve all been there at some point in our life, and I like to think occasionally, it\u2019s fun to just go back to that mindset.\u201d<\/p>\n

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