Line #1 Music/OldDominion


1	Old Dominion is a CountryMusic band which, as their name indicates, hails from Virginia. Members are Matthew Ramsey (lead vocals), Trevor Rosen (guitar, keyboards), Whit Sellers (drums), Geoff Sprung (bass), and Brad Tursi (guitars).
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3	Initially, Old Dominion was formed to perform songs that their members had written. Tursi, Ramsey, and Rosen in particular had landed several cuts by famous country singers. An independent EP released in 2014 caught the attention of the Nashville community when "Shut Me Up" started getting radio airplay. As a result, the band was signed to Creator/RCARecords Nashville. Their first official single, "Break Up with Him", gathered traction on Sirius XM's "The Highway", and then on terrestrial radio as well.
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5	"Break Up with Him" went on to become a #1 hit on Country Airplay, and it helped to move their debut album ''Meat and Candy''. Also released from the album were "Snapback" and "Song for Another Time". Their second album ''Happy Endings'' includes the hits "No Such Thing as a Broken Heart", "Written in the Sand", and "Hotel Key".
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7	The band's music is slick country-pop noted for its polished production and strong songwriting, usually from the band members themselves.
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9	!Albums
10	* ''Meat and Candy'' (2015)
11	* ''Happy Endings'' (2017)
12	* ''Old Dominion'' (2019)
13	* ''Time, Tequila & Therapy'' (2021)
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15	!Tropes present:
16	* {{Bowdlerise}}: All three singles off ''Happy Endings'' have had some form of this.
17	** "No Such Thing as a Broken Heart" muted "shit" in the lyric "All of this bullshit that goes down on TV".
18	** "Written in the Sand" changes "Let's cut through the shit" to "Let's cut to the quick".
19	** "Hotel Key" changes "[[TheStoner Smokin' a little from a half-an-ounce]]" to "Stuck in the middle, loving every ounce".
20	* BreakUpDemand: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Break Up With Him."]]
21	* EarlyBirdCameo: Ramsey, Rosen, and Tursi all wrote songs for other artists before the band had any singles out. Even before that, however, Rodney Atkins tweeted that the band had a cameo in his "It's America" music video back in 2009.
22	* EntitledToHaveYou: "Break Up with Him" has a man trying to convince a woman to leave her current man in favor of him ("I know you say you're taken, but I say girl you're taking too long to tell him that it's over"), with no reasoning other than ''he'' wants her (i.e. it's not a BetterPartnerAssertion song).
23	* MisogynySong: "Break Up with Him" sometimes gets accused of being this.
24	* ThePowerOfLove: "No Such Thing as a Broken Heart":
25	-->You know you can't keep the ground from shaking, no matter how hard you try\
26	You can't keep the sunsets from fading, you gotta treat you love like\
27	You're jumping off a rope swing maybe 'cause the whole thing is really just a shot in the dark\
28	You gotta love like there's no such thing as a broken heart
29	* ShoutOut:
30	** The video for "Break Up with Him" references ''Film/BackToTheFuture1''.
31	** "No Such Thing as a Broken Heart" name-drops Music/JohnMellencamp's "Jack and Diane".
32	** "Song for Another Time" is a SongOfSongTitles, as mentioned, but the bridge imitates the drum riff from "Paradise City" by Music/GunsNRoses, which is also name-dropped in the song.
33	* SongOfSongTitles: "Song for Another Time":
34	-->Let's be [[Music/VanMorrison brown eyed girl]], [[Music/NeilDiamond sweet Caroline]]\
35	[[Music/TomPetty Free fallin']], small town Saturday night[[note]]Hal Ketchum[[/note]]\
36	Before you lose that loving feeling[[note]]The Righteous Brothers[[/note]]\
37	Let's go [[Music/LionelRichie dancing on the ceiling]]\
38	Keep on living that [[Music/KatyPerry teenage dream]]\
39	[[Music/GunsNRoses Paradise city]] where the grass is green\
40	Pretty soon I'll be [[Music/HankWilliams so lonesome I could cry]][[note]]changed to "[[Music/WillieNelson always on my mind]]" for the second chorus[[/note]]\
41	But that's a song for another time
42	* VisualPun: The cover for ''Meat and Candy'' shows a female soda jerk serving strange hybridized dishes of, well, meat and candy.

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