Which is more important love or your art? For some Grammy winning couples, they're one in the same. Get ready for musicals love story that's inspired by some of our favorite songs. I'm Alicia Rai.
And I'm Sarah Wendell. Welcome to lovestruck daily where we bring a true love story to your eardrums each and every weekday. I'm in love with the love with you doing today work life.
Excellent. Thank
you. I have to tell you, I hit a rather strange milestone. Okay, I now have a workout playlist of 575 songs.
That's a lot of working out. There's a
lot of it's a lot of music. It is the it is the playlist I put on when I was snowboarding it is okay put on when I'm walking it when I am on the treadmill. And every time I hear a song that I think, Oh, I'd like to listen to that while I zone out. I add it to the list. It is a big, big playlist. That's amazing. And I love finding new songs to put on my my my workout playlist. I feel like the workout playlist or the the playlist that you listened to the most is almost like a sacred space. It doesn't matter what it is, if you like it, and it keeps you going then added to the playlist. Right? Yeah, I like that.
So what about you? Okay, so I,
I don't work out? I should I think music would help me work out more, but I don't like to. So I'm working on that. That's a work in progress. Yeah, I get really into like two songs and then beat them into the ground for a week. But I do have certain songs that helped me do certain things. Like I found that those like eight D songs on YouTube where it like kind of goes in and out of your ears like helps me focus. So I'll listen to those as background noise when I'm working. I feel like I have different milestones in my life that were shaped by certain things. So like, when I think back to college, all I can think about is like Eminem. Hey, this Eminem. Because one of my very good friends loved Eminem. So we just sit in his room and like listen to Eminem. But yeah, that was like, that's obviously I listen to other music during that time. But when I whenever I hear on m&ms, I'm like, oh, it's college. Yeah, that's,
that's why there's some songs that immediately time travel you Yeah. And I am very fascinated by the amount of songs that are coming back into popularity from my very young childhood that are either being remade or you know what the other cool thing about it is, when you have a song that's rediscovered, you start getting like the oral history and the deep dive of how the song was made. And I read a very long article, and I loved every single word about the string solo that starts off Cisco's Thong Song, interesting. How, you know, you have to hear this. But there is a string solo, and it is this extremely famous classical composer who came up with the string motif that is in the beginning. He's like, how about this doo doo doo doo? And Cisco is like, wow, that's perfect. And I'm like, I am living for this entire deep dive recap of how this came to be.
Was it purposefully a string because of a thong? You know? I
don't know. But that's a fair question.
Like, could it have been a saxophone or would they like, was with Cisco like, I need strings? Because of the metaphor,
you know, we are in I heart podcast, and I don't know about the licensing of such things. But I would really like to imagine that when this episode is done the strings from the Thong Song we playing as a bed beneath our words, man licensing, that song, that song, the phone. Oh, careful, don't
think too much of it.
In addition to our deep love of songs, and Soulja, we are also going to be talking about some of our favorite musician couples, because we are a love podcast after all. And some of the people who make the music that we love, have epic love stories of their own that match the incredible longevity of their music. So this is going to be the first in a series about Grammy winning and incredibly talented award winning couples in music. So if you have requests or suggestions, we're just going to remind you now and at the end of the episode, you can email us at lovestruck daily at frolic dot media and tell us we will add it to our playlist and like I said, I got a very long playlist and I want to add more songs to it. But let me tell you about a love story. Are you ready for this? I'm ready Tell me of your impressions of Faith Hill and Tim McGraw.
Oh, like what do I think of them? And their music, everything I know
is seems to be like very wholesome, wholesome couple. They just kind of mind their own business and I might be totally wrong. I don't know someone's gonna email and be like, hey, feels terrible, but I don't know anything else about them.
You don't have to email us your faithful slander. It's okay. It's okay. You just let that be.
But But I, I've they seem to be like a nice couple of mine their own business and just like like each other a lot and like their kids. So that's all I know about them. I went through a phase where I really loved country music, which like surprises everybody who knows me, but I loved country music for like two years
when because I went to college in South Carolina and there was a lot of country music and this is 1989 to 1993. So Faith Hill and Tim McGraw's careers were just starting, when I was dropped into the land of non stop country music. So when was your country phase?
This would have been in the early 2000s. And I lived in Florida at the time. So I think that did influence a lot of it. Yeah, that'll do. Yep. And it was, I didn't hear a lot of Faith Hill other than like, you know, her kind of iconic songs, but I, Tim McGraw was still pretty active.
You are right. They have been married for over 20 years, they have toured together. And for a long time in Hollywood, that is they have made music together. They have done duets that have been incredibly successful, and they are considered to be one of the most successful marriages in the entire music industry, not just country. Oh, wouldn't it be cool to see a show a live show of prominent couples in music performing together? Like how cool would that be? That
would be cool.
That would be a lot of genres. It'd be pretty amazing. Yeah. Cool. So Faith Hill and Tim McGraw met in 1994. At the country radio seminar in Nashville, they were part of what was called the new faces group. And they performed in the same lineup. They're, you know, they're kind of friendly with each other, but Faith Hill had just gotten divorced. Her ex husband is Dan Hill, and I want to say he had a one hit wonder song in the 80s. Okay, Tim McGraw was dating someone else at the time. So two years later, in 1996, Hill opens up for McGraw on one of his very first headlining tours, and apparently their chemistry was quite something was off the charts. And she is now engaged to someone else. I know he's just broken it off with the girl he was dating when he first met Faith Hill. And faith decides to break it off with her fiance, because she could not ignore the chemistry between her and Tim. And she has had to defend that decision. Even after all of the time that they've been together, she still has to defend that decision. And if you go back and Google do not recommend she received a lot of slut shaming at the dare che. So on one hand, you have this person who's celebrated for this wonderful, long relationship that has taken place in public. I can't imagine how stressful that is. And still gets shamed for the decisions she made 20 plus years ago, wow. So that same year on that same tour, and if you can imagine you think about forced proximity, right? Yeah, tours, late nights, go into cities doing a lot of driving. It's just you and the tour company and the people working with you on the tour in this little bubble. So on that same tour, Tim proposes marriage to her right before he's about to go on stage and she just laughs it off and he insists he's serious. And then he turns around and goes on stage and performs
Wow, that's that's like confidence.
I know right. Hi, Will you marry me? I'll be right back. I gotta go perform in front of 35 seen an hour. Be right back. Just give me a sec. I'll be a little sweaty but it'll be fine. So he comes back off stage. And she has written a message to him on his mirror and in Sharpies and lipstick saying that she will be his wife and he kept
the mirror. Oh, that's so nice.
So just a few months later, they tell their close friends and family to come on over for a softball game and a concert and surprise it's a wedding. Oh, I love those. I love when people pull off a So yeah, that's really cool. Yeah, I think Sharon Stone did that too. And I'm like, that's pretty cool. Faith was three months pregnant at the time of the wedding and they had their first baby in May of 1997. And then that same month, they released their first hit do it. It's your love, which I remember very clearly because that song was everywhere. When I was graduated college Hmm. After more hits and more children, they go on their first mutual headline tour called soul to soul in 2000. You name and it grossed $50 million. And it's sold out of the 63 shows 60 of them were completely sold
out. Wow.
Can you imagine? That's Wow. And that kind of happens when you're when your audience and the people who love your your music are also invested in your relationship? And plus, yeah, what a great show that both of them would be on their own at that time, because country music was pretty big back then. Yeah. I mean, it's still big, but it was different. Yeah, it was different. It was a different thing.
Now it's more it's more crossover now. I think like, like they'll go. It's more fluid. Yeah.
Yeah. But do you remember when like, you could not talk Garth Brooks? Yeah. Like it was just he was everywhere. Yeah, get away. Yeah. It was the dude in the hat and the shirts. And yeah, it was another album that was ever number one everywhere. I listened to a whole podcast about him, by the way. And it was fascinating. That guy is a business genius. Yeah. Anyway, so they were very successful individually. And they've won a lot of awards. So after many tours, and many albums, and another baby girl, they launched another tour together in 2006. soul to soul two, which becomes the most attended tour of that year in any genre. Wow. In 2010, they raised over $2 million dollars for the victims of flooding in Tennessee. Horrible flood. And in 2012, they headline, their own gig at the Venetian in Vegas. They were one of the earliest people I remember having a having a residency show. Yeah, they both got their stars at the same time at the Music Row Walk of Fame in 2016. And in 2017, they're like, You know what? Let's do one more tour. This time they do a third tour, it sells out at stops. And they had to keep extending it because people wanted to go and the shows kept selling out. So if you think about it, I mean, that's an incredible long career. And they're not done yet. If you could believe that. That same year in 2017, they released an album of duet Yeah, they've collaborated on each other's projects like if Tim has an album fatal have a song. But then they did one album of nothing but duets, that was just them. And a museum exhibit opened in their honor at the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville, depicting their life, their music, their career and their marriage. Can you imagine a museum exhibit to your relationship? My museum exhibit of my relationship with Adam would be like a clicker. Sweatpants. Adam have some bourbon I would have Yeah. Our phones.
Yeah. But yeah, it wouldn't be as exciting as this wouldn't be like not a very exciting exhibit gemstone and crusted guitars or whatever. That's
over the course of their relationship. McGraw also began a journey of sobriety which he credits faith for saying that without her you never would have had the wake up call that he needed to become sober and 25 years into their marriage. They are still so affectionate and romantic with each other. And you might have seen them on TV. They have a new hit TV show called Yellowstone that you might have heard of. And Tim said about faith to Us Weekly talking about Yellowstone to see my beautiful wife on horseback firing guns having dirt all over her face. I just sit in awe. She is a strong woman. And the creator of the show Taylor Sheridan said early on, Manuel, just get on that horse. You're not scared of anything. And I said I'm scared of one thing and she is right over there.
That's adorable. Oh, they're good for them. They sound cute. Isn't that lovely? Yeah, that's nice.
I just think it is incredible to have such a successful career. Yeah, side by side with someone who's having just as successful a career along with
you. Yeah, that long, that's all and it doesn't tie like there's any, like vicious jealousy there or anything like that.
In fact, sometimes on stage you'll see clips of this on YouTube. People will try to grope Tim, like try to grab him while he's on stage. And she'll come out and be like, You need to stop. Yeah, like she'll come out and tell women to knock it off that they're not quote my husband on stage.
That is exactly what I would do. And it would be really embarrassing. I
can understand why he's afraid of her cuz that's fearless. Right? Like that's incredible. That's funny. So that is Faith Hill and Tim McGraw.
I love that.
So what's your love to go for this one,
I'm gonna cheat a little bit and I'm gonna recycle a love to go from our previous episode this week with our CPAs our lovely CPAs and that is it's important when you work together to respect each other professionally and love each other personally and I think that if you can carry that through that is perfect. And that seems to be what faith and Tim have done.
I'm not sure that Ben Angelou meant for his quote to apply to international superstars of music who sell out their joint tour, but he's right. Whether you're a CPA
or Grammy Award winning artists. Yeah, you should do the same thing.
We all put our pants on one leg at a time.
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