Dan + Shay on Rebounding From a Near-Breakup, Joining ‘The Voice’ as Coaches, and Coming Up WIth Three Different Kinds of Wedding Songs
27.09.2023 - 19:03
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Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic For a while there, unbeknown to all but a few, there was a danger that hit country-pop duo Dan + Shay might go separate ways. But replacing the “+” in their moniker for a minus sign iwouldn’t have had much of a ring to it for either of them, so it’s to everyone’s benefit that they got to the root of what threatened to put a damper on their personal chemistry and found their duo mojo again in approaching the making of “Bigger Houses,” their fifth full-length album for Warner Nashville.
In — hurrah — joint conversation with Variety just before the new album came out, Dan Smyers and Shay Mooney got candid about the time they spent feeling estranged from another before getting back to basics just as conversationalists, then as mutually supportive songwriting collaborators. Led by the single “Save Me the Trouble,” the new album finds them fully reunited with longtime producer Scott Hendricks, who took on the entire collection with Smyers as co-producer.
The kings of country wedding songs also discussed how “Bigger Houses” includes not one, not two, but three types of tunes potentially appropriate for nuptials — along with plenty of breakup songs if things go south before or after the matrimony. And they revealed they’ve already gotten underway on preliminary shooting for their stint as coaches on “The Voice,” even though their first season won’t go live on NBC until early 2024.
And, although we usually identify artists by their last names in a Q&A, it feels right to make an exception this time for a pair known to the world primarily on a first-name basis. There’s a lot going on right now, but to jump the gun and ask about what you’ll be doing in 2024: You are joining
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