Chase Rice
7/15/202657 min
On this week's episode of Artist Friendly, Joel Madden is joined by Chase Rice.
After nonstop touring, the country star recently came off the road and limited his schedule to just a handful of shows that would “not look like anything like what I’ve done the last 13 years of my life.”
Catching up with Madden in the Artist Friendly studio, Rice discusses finding fulfillment beyond commercial success, how stepping away from touring helped him rediscover his love of making music, and the personal growth that’s reshaped his faith, relationships, and outlook on life.
“Why do I want my new music to be heard so bad?” he asks. “I’ve been racking my brain about that since we’ve been sitting here. Because if you know me for ‘Eyes on You,’ ‘Drinkin’ Beer. Talkin’ God.,’ ‘Ready Set Roll…,’ then you don’t know me at all. If you listen to some of this new stuff, then you’re gonna get to finally know who I am.”
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Host: Joel Madden, @joelmadden
Executive Producers: Joel Madden, Benji Madden, Jillian King
Producers: Janice Leary, Josh Madden, Joey Simmrin
Director/Visual Producer/Editor: Ryan Schaefer
Audio Producer/Composer: Nick Gray
Music/Theme Composer: Nick Gray
Cover Art/Design: Ryan Schaefer
Additional Contributors: Anna Zanes, Neville Hardman
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Chase Rice· Guest0:29
I had a massive hit, Everybody Wants to Be in the Room with you now, and we didn't mean to write that. We just stumbled across it, and it became this massive thing that I all of a sudden now have to live up to.
Joel Madden· Host0:40
Yeah.
Chase Rice· Guest0:40
And for 10 years that shaped, "Oh, I gotta do that again. I gotta sound like this. I gotta- Yeah ... Florida Georgia Line's blowing up. I wanna blow up. I gotta make my sound like theirs." Where my true joy in music started was when I sat on a couch again 10 years after all that with a guitar and wrote a song that only I could write.
Joel Madden· Host1:00
[singing] I want bad times. I don't wanna have bad. Thanks for coming.
Chase Rice· Guest1:06
Yeah.
Joel Madden· Host1:06
How was Stagecoach?
Chase Rice· Guest1:07
It was a lot.
Joel Madden· Host1:08
[laughs] Yeah.
Chase Rice· Guest1:09
It was unbelievable though, man. I... Funny enough, I don't know the ins and outs of it, but took us 13 years to f- I still have my lanyard on. Like- Yeah [laughs] ... I had a night at Stagecoach last night.
Joel Madden· Host1:20
Did you stay up late?
Chase Rice· Guest1:21
Until about 3:00.
Joel Madden· Host1:22
Oh my God.
Chase Rice· Guest1:23
It was a... But- Jeez ... I got here on, uh, I think I played Friday, so I got in on Thursday.
Joel Madden· Host1:29
Okay.