31 March 2020

Thomas Rhett has shared a new song called Be A Light, which features Reba McEntire, Keith Urban, Hillary Scott and Chris Tomlin. You can listen to the song here. All proceeds from the song will be going to the MusiCares COVID-19 Relief Fund, as Rhett tries to do his best to assist those in need at time of this pandemic. Speaking about the song, Rhett shared that he wrote the song 12 months ago as a coping mechanism to deal with the outside world and was delighted to be able to get the people he did on the track to share the positive message. “I wrote Be A Light last year as a way to process negativity and sadness I was seeing in the world,” Rhett said. “Now, as I sit in my home with my family on my 30th Birthday, we are in the middle of a worldwide pandemic affecting every single human on earth, all while our town of Nashville is still healing from devastating tornadoes that destroyed so much of our city less than one month ago. “But, among the wreckage, I see us come together in ways I never dreamed possible. I knew in my heart this was the time to share this message with the world and our community. “The voices who join me on this track are some of the brightest lights I know. I hope this song serves as a reminder that we are all in this together.” So far for Thomas Rhett, 2020 has been positive at least from a professional outlook, with the artist being nominated for five ACM Awards, including Entertainer of the Year.

Megan O’Neill has released a new song called Devil You Know, which is the third standalone single that the Irish artist has released from her next project. You can listen to the song here. Written with Essex-based artist Jake Morrell and produced by the Dunwells, Devil You Know follows in the footsteps of Rootless and Winter Sun. Speaking about the song, O’Neill explained where the inspiration for the track came from and opens up on the song’s message, which ultimately is a positive one. “I wrote Devil You Know based on the expression: ‘It’s better the devil you know than the devil you don’t’,” O’Neill said. “Sometimes in a long-term relationship, it’s easy to forget what it was like at the beginning when after a number of years, you’re so familiar with your partner and you often pass each other like ‘ships in the night’. “That initial can’t-keep-your-hands-off-each-other phase is over. So the mind wanders and you wonder what it would be like with someone new – would it end up just the same as this after a number of years? Is this normal? “By the end of the song, the singer realises that love just inevitably changes as the years go on – it might be less exciting in some ways but much more exciting in others. Building a life with someone is never easy and the singer here is quite sure she’s found a good one – despite it not being the honeymoon phase anymore!” Megan O’Neill was set to tour Ireland and Germany in April, but the COVID-19 pandemic has forced her to cancel those dates.