{"id":218,"date":"2025-04-18T11:51:41","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T16:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ashleycooke.com\/?p=218"},"modified":"2025-04-18T11:51:41","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T16:51:41","slug":"acm-nominee-ashley-cooke-releases-new-track-the-f-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ashleycooke.com\/home\/acm-nominee-ashley-cooke-releases-new-track-the-f-word\/","title":{"rendered":"ACM NOMINEE ASHLEY COOKE RELEASES NEW TRACK \u201cTHE F WORD\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">WRITTEN BY&nbsp;<strong>EMILY WEISBAND, LORI MCKENNA<\/strong>&nbsp;AND&nbsp;<strong>GORDIE SAMPSON<\/strong>,&nbsp;WITH PRODUCTION BY&nbsp;<strong>DANN HUFF<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">NEW SONG DEMONSTRATES ASHLEY&#8217;S SIGNATURE WARM STORYTELLING, RELATABLE LYRICS AND SMOOTH VOCALS<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" data-src=\"https:\/\/ashleycooke.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-219 lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1024px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1024\/1024;width:417px;height:auto\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/ashleycooke.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/ashleycooke.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/ashleycooke.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/ashleycooke.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/ashleycooke.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image.png 1196w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>\u201cthe f word\u201d cover art<\/strong>\u00a0| Download\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ukkuxm.fd57.fdske.com\/e\/c\/01js4g553kntntf7n6d82ersmy\/01js4g553kntntf7n6dewfawb1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>NASHVILLE, TENN.<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;Big Loud&#8217;s powerhouse country songstress and breakout star&nbsp;<strong>Ashley Cooke<\/strong>&nbsp;has released her latest track, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/ukkuxm.fd57.fdske.com\/e\/c\/01js4g553kntntf7n6d82ersmy\/01js4g553kntntf7n6dhwdz255\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong><u>the f word<\/u><\/strong><\/a>,\u201d&nbsp;available everywhere today. The song finds a lovestruck Cooke aching and regretting saying the F word in front of a paramour&#8217;s mother, only to reveal that the F word isn&#8217;t the notorious expletive but rather\u2026forever. Ashley, deeply enamored, tells her partner, \u201cI&#8217;m going to spend forever with you\u201d even though the early declaration causes her to cringe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This song immediately caught my attention from the title,&#8221; shares&nbsp;<strong>Cooke<\/strong>. &#8220;It&#8217;s brilliantly written and resonates with an&nbsp;experience I had in a past relationship\u2026The song starts with &#8216;I try not to swear,&#8217; which cracks me up because I have the mouth of a sailor, often using many&nbsp;f-words.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ashley, who is currently opening for Kane Brown on his arena tour, first teased the track during her performance at Nashville&#8217;s Bridgestone Arena, treating the crowd of 20,000 fans to a first listen. See the videos and hear the crowds&#8217; enthusiastic reaction&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ukkuxm.fd57.fdske.com\/e\/c\/01js4g553kntntf7n6d82ersmy\/01js4g553kntntf7n6dmm4bfm1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><u>here<\/u><\/a>.&nbsp;She also performed the song to strong response at the Country Radio Seminar (CRS).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fans are in luck, as many will get to hear \u201cthe f word\u201d live, as Ashley, who is known for her energetic live performances, continues to open for Kane Brown on his arena tour this spring. Additionally, Ashley also has several of her own headlining shows, plus festival appearances. Please find tour dates&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ukkuxm.fd57.fdske.com\/e\/c\/01js4g553kntntf7n6d82ersmy\/01js4g553kntntf7n6dqdq30y8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><u>here<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The release of \u201cthe f word\u201d is another 2025 milestone for Ashley, who continues to have a banner year. She kicked off the year with as a nominee for&nbsp;<em>Best New Country Artist<\/em>&nbsp;at the 2025 iHeartRadio Music Awards. In February, Ashley joined forces with global superstar Joe Jonas for an unforgettable heartbreak anthem in &#8220;all I forgot&#8221; feat. Joe Jonas; listen&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ukkuxm.fd57.fdske.com\/e\/c\/01js4g553kntntf7n6d82ersmy\/01js4g553kntntf7n6drz4xtd7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><u>here<\/u><\/a>. She also crisscrossed the country playing to packed venues on her headline&nbsp;<em>your place Tour<\/em>, named after her breakout track \u201cyour place\u201d which reached No. 1 on country radio; listen&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ukkuxm.fd57.fdske.com\/e\/c\/01js4g553kntntf7n6d82ersmy\/01js4g553kntntf7n6dwvwqgn1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><u>here<\/u>.<\/a>&nbsp;She&nbsp;can next be seen at the ACM Awards in Texas, where she is nominated for&nbsp;<em>New Female Artist of the Year<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WRITTEN BY&nbsp;EMILY WEISBAND, LORI MCKENNA&nbsp;AND&nbsp;GORDIE SAMPSON,&nbsp;WITH PRODUCTION BY&nbsp;DANN HUFF NEW SONG DEMONSTRATES ASHLEY&#8217;S SIGNATURE WARM STORYTELLING, RELATABLE LYRICS AND SMOOTH VOCALS \u201cthe f word\u201d cover art\u00a0| Download\u00a0here NASHVILLE, TENN.&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;Big Loud&#8217;s powerhouse country songstress and breakout star&nbsp;Ashley Cooke&nbsp;has released her latest &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ashleycooke.com\/home\/acm-nominee-ashley-cooke-releases-new-track-the-f-word\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":219,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleycooke.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleycooke.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleycooke.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleycooke.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleycooke.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ashleycooke.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220,"href":"https:\/\/ashleycooke.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions\/220"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleycooke.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleycooke.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleycooke.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleycooke.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}