Jerrod Niemann and Pitbull 'Drink to That All Night' in Miami — rollingstone.com

Long before he remixed the song with Pitbull, Jerrod Niemann knew "Drink to That All Night" was going to be polarizing.  But that was exactly his intention. "The more and more I live in the history of country music, the more I realize how important it is to be different," the country star tells Rolling Stone. "Willie Nelson wrote a song called 'Write Your Own Songs,' and there’s a version where Waylon Jennings sings the verse: 'Mr. Purified Country, don’t you know what the whole thing’s about?/Is your head up your ass so far that you can’t pull it out?' That just shows you that they were getting flack for messing with the tradition of country music. When you decide to step out on a limb and be different, you are going to get people who don’t want change and they think you’re hurting something that they love so much. But in reality, every artist who’s been successful was out on a limb, daring to be different. I’m not saying I’m on the trajectory of Willie or Waylon, but I feel like it’s my duty to dare to be different."

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