Shay, for the most part you sing lead on ’19 You + Me.’ Do you switch it up on the album?
Shay Mooney: He does harmonies, and he does literally everything else. Singing is literally the only thing I do [Dan smiles shakes his head in disagreement]. Dan produced our album and that was awesome. We wrote all the songs together and he played everything and it was just — yeah.
DS: We got a fun little process man, we just have a laptop and just kind of write a song and just start building it and then get carried away. We’re like man, that guitar part sounds cool. Let’s do another guitar part, let’s put a banjo on it. Let’s put a keyboard on it. We just got carried away because we were so excited about the songs. And then the label was like “Cool, this is your album.”
SM: It was cool because when we were writing all of these songs, we loved playing together. So we were playing it for all of our friends and they were “You all’s voices blend so well together, there is something special there.”
Aside from ’19 You + Me,’ what is the one song people are going to walk away from your concerts talking about?
SM: There’s a song called ‘Show You Off’ that’s gonna be on our album. It’s the first song on the album, opens it up. It’s a really fun crowd-participation song. There’s an “Eh-oh, eh-oh” part. We played that out a couple of times. We played a show with Hunter Hayes and we teach the crowd the “Eh-ohs” and they sing it back to us. People have fun with that song. It’s called ’Show You Off,’ so it’s about showing a girl off, taking her downtown. It’s high energy.
Have you had a chance to talk to Rascal Flatts?
SM: We have. They’re super cool guys. We love their music. We grew up on Kenny Chesney … it’s funny, when we say like Kenny Chesney and Keith Urban people are like “What do you mean you grew on it?” I’m 22 so it’s like when I was growing up that was hot. And obviously Tim McGraw and George Strait and all of them.
We loved Rascal Flatts and I loved their sound. We got to hang out with those guys, we saw them recently at St. Jude.
Shay Mooney: He does harmonies, and he does literally everything else. Singing is literally the only thing I do [Dan smiles shakes his head in disagreement]. Dan produced our album and that was awesome. We wrote all the songs together and he played everything and it was just — yeah.
DS: We got a fun little process man, we just have a laptop and just kind of write a song and just start building it and then get carried away. We’re like man, that guitar part sounds cool. Let’s do another guitar part, let’s put a banjo on it. Let’s put a keyboard on it. We just got carried away because we were so excited about the songs. And then the label was like “Cool, this is your album.”
SM: It was cool because when we were writing all of these songs, we loved playing together. So we were playing it for all of our friends and they were “You all’s voices blend so well together, there is something special there.”
Aside from ’19 You + Me,’ what is the one song people are going to walk away from your concerts talking about?
SM: There’s a song called ‘Show You Off’ that’s gonna be on our album. It’s the first song on the album, opens it up. It’s a really fun crowd-participation song. There’s an “Eh-oh, eh-oh” part. We played that out a couple of times. We played a show with Hunter Hayes and we teach the crowd the “Eh-ohs” and they sing it back to us. People have fun with that song. It’s called ’Show You Off,’ so it’s about showing a girl off, taking her downtown. It’s high energy.
Have you had a chance to talk to Rascal Flatts?
SM: We have. They’re super cool guys. We love their music. We grew up on Kenny Chesney … it’s funny, when we say like Kenny Chesney and Keith Urban people are like “What do you mean you grew on it?” I’m 22 so it’s like when I was growing up that was hot. And obviously Tim McGraw and George Strait and all of them.
We loved Rascal Flatts and I loved their sound. We got to hang out with those guys, we saw them recently at St. Jude.
