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Downtown's Dead
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Wikipedia article
{{Infobox song
| name = Downtown's Dead
| cover = Sam Hunt - Downtown's Dead.png
| alt =
| type = single
| artist = Sam Hunt
| album = Southside
| released =
| recorded =
| studio =
| genre = Country
| length = 3:35
| label = MCA Nashville
| writer = * Sam Hunt
* Zach Crowell
* Josh Osborne
* Shane McAnally
* Charlie Handsome
| producer = * Zach Crowell
* Charlie Handsome
| prev_title = Body Like a Back Road
| prev_year = 2017
| next_title = Kinfolks
| next_year = 2019
| misc =
}}
"'Downtown's Dead'" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music singer Sam Hunt. It is Hunt's eighth single release, and the follow-up to his 2017 hit "Body Like a Back Road" as well as the second single from his second studio album 'Southside'. The song, which he wrote with Zach Crowell, Shane McAnally, Josh Osborne, and Charlie Handsome, is about the loneliness felt after a break-up. The song is Hunt's lowest charting single of his career, with a peak at number 15 on the Country Airplay chart.
Content and history
Co-writer Zach Crowell told 'Taste of Country' that "It was an idea that Sam brought and we chipped away at over the course of a handful of different writes." The two then presented the idea of "Downtown's Dead" to Shane McAnally and Josh Osborne, who experimented with different sounds before deciding to make the lead instrument an acoustic guitar. The lyrics take inspiration from a breakup that Hunt had with his wife, Hannah, and it expresses the loneliness that the narrator feels when by himself in a public setting. The song was described by 'Rolling Stone' as featuring a "woozy Latin guitar riff" and a "hungover narrative about a city that no longer holds the same charm it once did." Hunt announced the single's release via Instagram in May 2018.
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Category:2018 songs
Category:2018 singles
Category:Country ballads
Category:2010s ballads
Category:Sam Hunt songs
Category:Songs written by Sam Hunt
Category:Songs written by Shane McAnally
Category:Songs written by Josh Osborne
Category:Songs written by Zach Crowell
Category:MCA Nashville Records singles
Category:Songs about loneliness
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