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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 that marks a hard pivot from the wedding songs dominating their discography.
- The track pays tribute to late mentor Ben Vaughn, head of Warner Chappell Music Publishing who died by suicide. The pair began work on what would have been 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.
- For those struggling, the national suicide and crisis lifeline is available by calling or texting 988. An online chat is also available at 988lifeline.org.
- Creating the demo with co-writers David Hodges and Jimmy Robbins proved therapeutic for Smyers and Mooney. Before finalizing these 10 songs, the pair 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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