It goes without saying that it “Ain’t A Bad Life” for Thomas Rhett, who is on the verge of scoring his 25th number one song, and just welcomed his fifth child, Brave, earlier this year. The Country star joined Katie Neal to talk about it all this week during the Superstar Power Hour.
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“We're tired, but he's actually sleeping,” Rhett says of the newborn, his first son. “He's our best sleeping baby that we have had.”
“I still think just like having a newborn, plus you know, 4 other, kids' schedules with school, and sports, and friends, and birthdays. We're in the weeds as my grandmother would call it.”
“It's a season and I'm really trying to not let it slip me by,” Thomas shares. “I'm not trying to wish it away, so really just trying to, when I'm home just be extremely present. It kind of dawned on me the other day that my oldest child, she's 10, so, I have 8 summers left with her. When you start thinking about it in terms of like, ‘whoa, 8 years,’ it seems like a long time, but It's been 6 years since COVID and it kind of feels like it was yesterday in some capacity, you know, so that's how quick time is moving.”
“I'm really trying to just be as present as I humanly can while I'm home because I know that, you know, this might be the last infant phase that we go through. We're having a good time and we're just tired, but we kind of have learned how to live tired, so.”
Katie was quick to ask, “is this the last infant, or are you guys still undecided?”
“Dude, I mean, in my brain, I'm done, but we've seen how far that my brain has gotten me, you know, over the last decade or so.”
On the music front, Rhett is approaching a monumental milestone, his 25th number one song, “Ain’t A Bad Life” with Jordan Davis. “It doesn't add up in my brain,” TR tells Katie. “There are some days I wake up and I still feel like a new artist, and then there are some days I wake up and I'm like, ‘gosh, I've been doing this for a long time.’ There's really no in-between for me.”
“When I think about 25 number ones, I think if I were to tell my 19-year-old self that I'd be talking to you today, talking about that, I would have called you a complete liar,” he adds. “So I feel grateful. I feel blessed, I don't know. Just feel undeserving for the people that have helped me get here, honestly.”
“Then also just to have that number one, hopefully with Jordan, is really special because he's gotten to become one of my best buddies in this industry and, to have that with him is really cool”
To hear more about family life and what’s next, listen to the full conversation with Thomas Rhett above.
“I feel grateful. I feel blessed”
“I feel grateful. I feel blessed”
