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Luke Combs’s Growing Pains
The singer has swung so far into “mature music” that he’s forgotten what makes his songs fun.
That fit with the changes happening in his personal life.Outside of becoming one of country music’s biggest stars, Combs got engaged to his longtime girlfriend (who played the Hooters waitress in the “When It Rains” video) in 2018, married her in 2020, and then had two sons 14 months apart. By pursuing this path, Combs has avoided the embarrassing fate of country artists like Tyler Hubbard, who struggle to keep making a style of party music they’ve long outgrown. While Wallen has continued keeping bro country alive this decade, leading a movement of artists like Hardy, Ernest, and now even Post Malone, critics derided his style, and his party-boy image is becoming a liability.
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