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 forthcoming album 'Young,' marking a hard pivot from the wedding songs that define their discography.
- The track honors late mentor Ben Vaughn, head of Warner Chappell Music Publishing, who died by suicide. Smyers and Mooney discovered they began writing on what would have been Vaughn's 50th birthday.
- 'Say So' serves as the thematic center for 'Young,' a 10-track album of autobiographical material reflecting their lives with new emotional vulnerability. Mooney labels this shift a "very life-giving thing."
- The pair shares suicide-prevention resources with the release. Those needing help can contact the national crisis lifeline by calling or texting 988, with online chat available at 988lifeline.org.
- Creating the demo with co-writers David Hodges and Jimmy Robbins proved therapeutic for the duo. Before settling on 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.
The main single from the upcoming album by Dan + Shay, Young, represents a sharp twist on the wedding songs that have marked much of the record by the Grammy-winning country duo. "Say So", with a warm and hopeful chorus, addresses suicide prevention and was written as a tribute to Ben Vaughn, mentor to Dan Smyers and Shay Mooney and director of Warner Chappell Music Publishing, who died of suicide a year earlier. "If you're going through hell, y…
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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