History Music / ThomasRhett

* ShoutOut: "What's Your Country Song" references several popular and iconic songs, including his father Rhett Akins' signature hit "That Ain't My Truck."

* WeddingBellsForSomeoneElse: "Marry Me" starts to sound like the narrator is about to his marry his lover, until the WhamLine "She wanna get married, but she don't wanna marry me" reveals that she's dumped him for someone else.

** [[DidWeJustHaveTeaWithCthulhu Did I Just Have Beer With Jesus?]]

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: His first album was more defined by "bro-country" as opposed to his poppier and more lyrical second and third albums. It also split production duties among Jay Joyce, Luke Laird, and Michael Knox instead of his usual producers, Dann Huff and Julian Bunetta.

* WeddingBellsForSomeoneElse: "Marry Me" starts to sound like the narrator is about to his marry his lover, until the line "She wanna get married, but she don't wanna marry me" reveals that she's dumped him for someone else.

Thomas Rhett Akins Jr. (born March 30, 1990), better known as Thomas Rhett, is a CountryMusic singer from TheNewTens. The son of singer-songwriter Rhett Akins ("That Ain't My Truck"), he is signed to Big Machine Records, an indie label that is also home to Music/TimMcGraw, Music/TaylorSwift, and Music/RascalFlatts.

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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: His first album was more defined by "bro-country" as opposed to his poppier and more lyrical second and third albums.

Thomas Rhett Akins Jr (born March 30, 1990), better known as Thomas Rhett, is a CountryMusic singer from TheNewTens. He is the son of Rhett Akins, who had a couple hits in TheNineties and switched to songwriting in the noughties (both by himself and as one-third of The Peach Pickers). Thomas Rhett is signed to Big Machine Records, an indie label that is also home to Music/TimMcGraw, Music/TaylorSwift, and Music/RascalFlatts.

* HappilyMarried: Adores his wife, as his songs such as "Star Of The Show", "Life Changes", and "Die A Happy Man" all show.

Rhett made his debut in 2012 with "Something to Do with My Hands", followed by "Beer with Jesus", both of which made Top 20 on the country charts, but his breakthrough came in 2013 when "It Goes Like This" spent three weeks at the top of the country airplay charts, followed by "Get Me Some of That" and "Make Me Wanna". His second album produced further chart-toppers with "Crash and Burn", "Die a Happy Man" (his biggest hit to date), "T-Shirt", and "Star of the Show". ''Life Changes'' has produced the singles "Craving You" (featuring Maren Morris), "Unforgettable", and "Marry Me".

* AdvertisedExtra: Maren Morris is credited for her backing vocals on "Craving You".

Rhett made his debut in 2012 with "Something to Do with My Hands", followed by "Beer with Jesus", both of which made Top 20 on the country charts, but his breakthrough came in 2013 when "It Goes Like This" spent three weeks at the top of the country airplay charts, followed by "Get Me Some of That" and "Make Me Wanna". His second album produced further chart-toppers with "Crash and Burn", "Die a Happy Man" (his biggest hit to date), "T-Shirt", and "Star of the Show". ''Life Changes'' has produced the singles "Craving You" (featuring Maren Morris) and "Unforgettable".

* CallBack: "Life Changes" references "Die a Happy Man" in the lyric "And I wrote a little song about holding her hand and now everybody wanna die a happy man."

But everybody else said, "man, you're twenty-two\\

Hey why don't you wait?"\\
'Cause I've been waiting on her since the second grade

* SexyShirtSwitch: The subject of "T-Shirt" ("I ain't ever seen anything like your dress, my floor, the way you wore my T-Shirt").

* CallBack: "Life Changes" references "Die a Happy Man" in the lyric "And I wrote a little song about holding her hand and now everybody wanna die happy now".

'Cause I've been waiting on her since the second grade, yeah

"Whatcha trying to prove?"\\
"Hey why don't you wait?"\\

* RearrangeTheSong: He re-cut the vocal track for the single release of "Make Me Wanna".

Now Lauren's showin' and got one on the way\\

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: His first album was more defined by "bro-country" as opposed to the slicker pop arrangements and more meaningful lyricsfrom about "Die a Happy Man" onward.