Jackson song makes news its own way

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Here's one way to get in the newspaper: Write a song about it.

Country singer Alan Jackson's new album, What I Do, out today, includes a song called USA Today. In the song, Jackson tries to put on his best face after a breakup. He can't sleep, he can't eat, but, hey, he's famous, thanks to a reporter who calls him, eager to write a front-page story about "the loneliest man, they claim, in the USA today."

"I figured he was just a pretty average guy, kind of a nice fella, and this girl did him wrong and left him," says Jackson, 45. "His friends were worried about him, and I guess she was too, a little bit. He was so lonely and sad that the newspapers picked it up. He got back at her, almost, by becoming a celebrity in the paper. He tried to play it up like he didn't need her anymore. He hit the big time because she left him."

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