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After Losing a Friend and Writing 'Say So,' Dan + Shay Are Back with the Autobiographical 'Young'
The song honors late mentor Ben Vaughn and anchors the duo’s more autobiographical album after they scrapped a full set of songs.
- Grammy Award-winning Dan Smyers and Shay Mooney released 'Say So,' a suicide-prevention single from their upcoming album 'Young,' marking a hard pivot from the wedding songs that define their discography.
- The track pays tribute to late mentor Ben Vaughn, head of Warner Chappell Music Publishing, who died by suicide; the duo realized they began work on Vaughn's 50th birthday.
- 'Say So' serves as the thematic center for 'Young,' an album featuring 10 autobiographical tracks of crossover country reflecting their lives with new emotional vulnerability, Mooney describes as a 'very life-giving thing.'
- For those needing help, the national suicide and crisis lifeline is available by calling or texting 988, a resource the pair shares alongside the release.
- Creating the demo with co-writers David Hodges and Jimmy Robbins proved therapeutic for the duo; before finalizing these 10 songs, Smyers and Mooney scrapped an entire album's worth of material.
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After losing a friend and writing 'Say So,' Dan + Shay are back with the autobiographical 'Young'
Grammy Award-winning duo Dan + Shay’s forthcoming album “Young” is 10 autobiographical tracks of crossover country that reflects their lives, now, with new emotional vulnerability.
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The main single from the upcoming album “Young” by the duo Dan + Shay, awarded the Grammy, is a powerful twist on the wedding songs that make up much of the country musicians’ discography.
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