“She was Cheating”: Bailey Zimmerman Shares the Heartbreaking Story That Inspired His New Album Title, ‘Different Night Same Rodeo’

In tandem with the release of his brand new single, ‘Comin’ in Cold’, Bailey Zimmerman sits down with Apple Music's Kelleigh Bannen to explain why he picked out a key lyric from the heartbroken track to use as the title for his sophomore album.

Shortly before the arrival of ‘Comin’ in Cold’ - which features the ‘Fall in Love’ singer-songwriter's signature, evocative vibrato combining with a refreshingly traditional-leaning fiddle instrumental - Zimmerman surprised his fans with the news that his new studio album, Different Night, Same Rodeo, would be arriving on August 8th.

Chatting to Bannen, Zimmerman explains, “Well, Different Night Same Rodeo is a lyric in my new song, ‘Comin‘ in Cold’ - that actually just dropped today. But when I heard ‘Comin’ in Cold’, and I heard what it was about, and then I heard “Different night, same rodeo” and I'm like, ‘Dude, that is my life, man’. Like, we were just talking about this. You're like, ‘Man, Bailey, don't wait too long to have kids’, and I'm like, ‘Yo, Kelleigh, I'm trying’. I'm trying to get a wife. I'm trying to have kids”.

The ‘Religiously’ hitmaker expands by opening up about the devastating story that inspired him to choose this as the album title, “Alright, little tea drop. I had this girl out in Hollywood, it was like West Hollywood, LA, that I had been talking to for a while. Turns out, she had a boyfriend. She was cheating on her boyfriend with me. I was the cheater! And they're actors. You gotta watch ‘em. They're good at it”.

Bailey Zimmerman has accompanied the release of ‘Comin’ in Cold’ with a dramatic music video, which sees the country prodigy playing the part of a professional bull-rider.

It features a surprise cameo from genre-blending DJ, Diplo, as Zimmerman plays his music for a packed dancehall, before waking up in a daze and finding out the whole thing had been a dream, while he'd been unconscious from a rodeo accident.

The blockbuster scale of these visuals highlight Zimmerman's elevated ambitions for Different Night, Same Rodeo, with the forthcoming project expected to add another boost of momentum to the ‘Holy Smokes’ crooner's meteoric ascent.

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