Cody Johnson: He Had To Learn To Be Romantic
Cody Johnson has made a big name for himself in country music, singing romantic songs like “The Painter” and his newest song, “Dirt Cheap.” So, growing up and working as a real Texas cowboy, we wondered if Cody was also a hopeless romantic.
Johnson told us, “Yeah, I’ve been married for 15 years. You’ve gotta be, you know. I’m kind of a hardheaded rough around the edges cowboy, and I had to intentionally learn how to be romantic because a lot of the times guys like me, think you’re being romantic, and she’s just going, ‘Jesus.'”
He added, “With my wife in particular, I’ve had to really learn her because what I think would be more romantic, so you do the things that she thinks is romantic. Something as simple as ‘I ran your bathwater,’ you know, something simple. My wife’s very simple, and I grew up watching Western movies, and there’s kind of romanticism about all that too.”
Cody’s latest song “Dirt Cheap” has that. He says, “‘Dirt Cheap,’ there’s kind of a Western romanticism about it.”
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Johnson‘s two daughters Clara Mae and Cori, who are nine and seven, have thought a little bit about becoming country singers. We talked to Cody recently, and he’s discouraging his daughters from getting into the country music scene.
He told us. “I told them don’t do it, and you think it’s easy because we ride around in private jets and buses and stuff with Dad, and we have these expensive trips and all this stuff. It looks good on paper, but I tell them, ‘You guys weren’t around for the real hard work like looking into a McDonald’s and not being able to go in and buy food and literally starving for country music.'”
He says to his girls, “What else do you wanna be?” and they say, ‘I wanna be a vet and I also wanna be a teacher and I wanna be a pastor but then after that, I’m thinking maybe I could be a lawyer.'”
The budding country superstar admits, “Cody Johnson is like the lowest man on the totem pole right now. At my house, it kind of goes Carrie Underwood, Lainey Wilson, and Megan Maroney. I love Carrie. I love Lainey and I recently met Megan and she’s one of the nicest girls I ever met, but I’m so sick of their music. It’s not even funny, because they blare it constantly at our house.”
