April 11, 2025 • 15 mins
Chris Young not only has a new song & album to celebrate BUT he's also got an entire new team behind him to support it. For the first time in his career, Chris bet on himself and went to find a new home for his music. We cath up on that and what pressure there is in country music to CREATE, CREATE, CREATE!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Wayne Dean Studio with a guy that we haven't caught
up with a little while, but we got an amazing
reason to because this new music season for Chris Young.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Baby, yeah it is, yeah, it is how you feeling
about things amazing?
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Man.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
You know, first time I really got a chance to
be a free agent. I've been at Sony my whole
career for almost nineteen years. And my deal was up,
and I was like, I'm going to go take meetings.
And the very first meeting I went into is with
Black River Entertainment, and dude, we had a three hour meeting.
(00:35):
I don't have three hour meetings. I'm not a three
hour meeting.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Guy.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
They sound horrible, but this one was amazing and I
got up and I canceled all my other meetings. I
was like, this is where I need to be, this
is where I want to be.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
And how nerve wracking is that. I mean, you're at
a point in your career where you've made a lot
of great music, You're established in your career, so like you.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Have more.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Level ground to make decisions. Then maybe the newer artists
who's like, I'm going to find something else and it's like,
well hang on, but I'd imagine it was still nerve
racking to be like, I'm gonna I want to try
something different.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Uh No, not really, and I mean again, I had
several meetings set up with different people, and I called
everybody after I walked out of the meeting, was like, Hey,
the deal points they offered me are amazing. Nobody's going
to match this. They love all the music. I had
just an incredible meeting with them. I know a lot
(01:33):
of the people that work there from over the years,
just in Nashville, and then all the people that I
met that I didn't know just really really were invested
and we're like, you know, we want you to be
the priority here, and it just felt really good and
(01:53):
I was just like, Yeah, this is where I'm supposed
to be.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
I'd imagine when you're looking for a new dancing partner,
what's more important to you being able to like do
things your way the song creation, you know, let them
worry about what they do right, but you get to
do what you want to say.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Oh no, I don't ever let anybody else just worry
about it, and I'll pay attention to everything. I'm annoying
to a fault with that, But I've always you know,
at least after my second record, I've never really had
anybody tell me, hey, do you have to do this
or we don't want you to do that. Like I've
(02:33):
been allowed, you know, a good amount of creative freedom.
There's just a different level on it right now with
this album.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
And this process.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
And you know, I mean most people going first single,
new record would not go, you know what, we should
do this beautiful.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Love song that's a ballad and no one bad deny
at it.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
They were like, we love this song and I love
this song. It's called Till the Last Dies, and uh,
you know, it's just a really awesome like I mean,
it's wedding season. It would work for that. It just
works as a way to say I love you to.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Somebody in song for him.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
And the hook of the song got me the very
first time I listened to it because it's saying, you know,
I bought a dozen roses on the way to you tonight,
eleven real ones, one fake one, and I'll love you
till the last one dies.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
I was just like, I've never heard that before.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Yeah, there's there's one fake one in that. Let's go
the bouquet roses that I brought. So although you made
fun of me, you're like, oh, you can't give him
to the guy.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
He's like, have you not heard the song? Which I did,
and we love it when it. When it comes to
where you're at career wise, how important was it to
find somebody who was just as passionate Because there's and
this isn't me talking about any your label or any
specific label, but priorities for record labels are different than
(03:56):
priorities for artists, and sometimes artists gets stuck in a
holding pattern with I got a new music or I
got an album, and they'll say, okay, hey wait because
we're gonna push this one and then we'll come back
to this one. How important was it to you to
find a spot where you can kind of release music
the way you want to?
Speaker 3 (04:11):
I mean, I think that's important for everybody. You said it.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
You know, nobody wants to be in a position where
they feel like they're they're handcuffed or it's not working
out for.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
The label or for the artist.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
It's it's got to be, you know, a complimentary situation
for everybody. And that was one of the things that
I just really felt that from the get go.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
How do you avoid Nashville has become this like music
machine where where this newer wave of artists is like
I'm putting out a new song every Friday. I'm putting
out a seventy five song album every six months.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
How do you avoid?
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Like, that's that's great for you, but like, how do
you how do you avoid number one, the pressure to
do that or or keep up with with the machine
aspect of it.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Well, there's no pressure there.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
I think they teach their own I know that there
are a lot of people that that would put out,
you know, a forty song album every year if they could.
I don't know that that works for everybody. I think
everybody is a little bit different, and it's not cookie cutter.
It's not you know, follow these four steps and you're famous,
(05:21):
Like that's that's not or you'll make great music every time.
That's just not how music works.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
It's art.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
And I think that, you know, maybe that changes over
time for certain artists. Maybe it works for one artist
but not for another artist. So I don't think there's
any pressure from that aspect of it.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
I know what you're asking, Yeah, but.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
You know, I wrote four songs this week that I
already sang and have demos on That doesn't mean I'm
going to put those four songs out every Friday. I
still believe in the prospect of, you know, calling down
those songs and putting out an album. Maybe it's fourteen
or fifteen songs, but having that and then being able
(06:05):
to put some songs different places where there's different avenues
for them to get attention and it's not just focused
on whatever the main single is. But as far as
just you know, releasing something every week, I don't know
if that works for me.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
When it comes to the album process, it's so much
different than it used to be, because there are there's.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Okay, here's my album.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
May third, here's my album, and then it's like August thirtieth,
here's the deluxe edition, where it's you're releasing the album
all over again, but there's four new songs. Do you
like that or would you rather just keep those songs
and put out a new album faster?
Speaker 3 (06:46):
No?
Speaker 2 (06:46):
I think you know, there's a way now to do
that and really maximize the potential of that of sort
of the reminder to people that maybe listen to it
a lot when it first came out, and this is
their to go back and fall in love with some
of those other songs. And then also maybe the first
time around, people didn't really gravitate towards the album as
(07:09):
a whole. Maybe they weren't paying attention. There's constant, you know,
stuff going on. You open your phone, there's eighty seven
things trying to get your attention. Yeah, so maybe that
grab somebody that heard whatever the first single was and
they're like, oh, I really love that song. I wonder
what the rest of the album's like. Oh, hey, here's
a deluxe that's got four more new songs that you
(07:31):
haven't heard yet. So I think that's a valuable tool
for sure, what's.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
The song on this on this past project? That because
obviously as an artist who're like top to bottom, hid
play let it roll? Like are you're you are? You're
very intentional with with the way songs lay out on
an album or do you just throw them on?
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Well, you don't just throw them off. I don't know
anybody that does that. Just them in there, let's go
alphabetical order. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
I do think that there's still an art to having,
you know, a list and an order of songs where
it does feel cohesive, but also it you know, kind
of pulls the listener in and you're gonna go from
ballads to tempos on some parts of the record.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
That's just going to happen.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Said, I feel like we're like dissecting the music industry
in this conversation as opposed to actually talking about the music.
But it's sorry if anybody's listening to this, just like
why are they talking about all this stuff? But I
think it's still very important, at least to me, when
you when you make that album, because even if people
just listen to the singles, fine, they listen to singles, or
(08:39):
they pick individual songs out that they want to listen
to their favorites, but the first listen down, I still
listen to an album starts finish.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Yeah, is there a song that that, as you your
career has grown, you poured so much into that you
that maybe if you talk to fans, you'd be like, hey,
I appreciate y'all all of these on the album, but
like I poured a lot of heart into this one too,
like give this one some time as well.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
I don't know necessarily if there's a song like that.
I mean, I think everybody's going to find their favorites. Yeah,
you know, so for one person that might be you
know what the last number one was. For another person
it might be track ten and they're just like, oh
this one, this one spoke to me. So And that's
(09:27):
why you make an album is because there's some for
everybody on there.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
When it comes to the new song Till the Last
One Dies, I'd imagine it's the first offering a bigger
project is underway, and I'm not a.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
No, it's just first single. We're just dropping one at
a time. I'll lie about everything. No, I'm about a
little over halfway done with the full project.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
So is it difficult not knowing? Do you know the
full album? Like what's going to land on there?
Speaker 3 (09:58):
M hm? Okay?
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Why what made this the one that raised its hand
like this is going to be first? Because you mentioned
like it's a ballad, it's the first one that might
really be normal.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
We actually had it narrowed down to two different songs,
and when I say different, they are very different because
one of them is the tempo party song called I
Didn't come here to Leave that I love and the
other one was Till the Last One Dies. And I
went back and started looking and actually, my manager, who's
sitting over there in the corner on her.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Phone, came to me.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
It was like I just pulled, like the history of
the last like six seven singles. You haven't really had
a love song ballad that's like could be a first
dance at a wedding in a while. I've had things
like looking for You that talk about being in love
and talk about that the idea of love, or like
maybe there's a sexy love song in there, but as
(10:53):
far as like a beautiful ballad just a new way
to say I love you in song for him, I
hadn't done one of those in a while, and so
I was like, there's no rule that says I can't
put out a ballad first, so I wanted to go
with this one.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
What excites you about the album process or is it
different now that you have a new team on the
label side. Does that affect any of the creation process for.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
You as far as the creativity part on my end,
not really, But it's it's awesome to see them excited
about it and see new ideas getting thrown across the
table when we're in meetings and just thinking about stuff.
Maybe from a different perspective than I have in the past.
It doesn't feel as locked in. It feels like it's
(11:38):
a new chapter and everything sort of wide open.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Was that part of the appeal to making a change
is that, like, I don't want to say it gives
you a restart point, but it kind of lets you
like put a fresh coat of paint on the hat.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
I hope not. I don't. I don't know. I don't
know if I'm old enough that I need a start, but.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
I I just think it's definitely.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
A new chapter.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Yeah, so to speak, like, it's not taking away anything
that I've done in the past, but this is sort
of like, Okay, we turned the page. This is all
new going forward with a new team and a new
vision on it, and they'll both marry together, and you know,
all the songs that people love will still be at
the shows. But making some new stuff for him is
always fun.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
When when you have this fresh breath of fresh air
going into the new album. Is any part of you like, oh,
that feels like the last chapter of my music as.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
You're creating it, or are you like, no, this is
I don't look at it like that is me?
Speaker 1 (12:45):
No?
Speaker 2 (12:45):
I yeah, I think at this point everybody knows what
I sound like, and.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
So there's no rap songs on the new albums.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
No, I didn't do that on this particular project. I'm
sorry to disappoint you. There's there's no rap songs on
this album.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Heltho, listen.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
We support all you do, but that one might stick
out a little bit.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
It's fine.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
What are you most excited about now with this new
music as far as you know, getting it in front
of fans?
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Exactly what you just said, Because I've been living with
this stuff for months now, and I'm just ready for
this song to be out there. Because I've listened to
it a lot. I'm excited about it. Everybody that I've
played it for gets excited about it the first time
they hear it. I'm just ready for everybody to hear
it for the first time.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
I'm excited.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
You a buddy of ours that works here at the
radio station, Ryan McKitty, Oh yeah, he saw you recently
and he's like, Dude, this guy's so excited about this song. Man,
more excited than you've been maybe for past singles. You
feel that way, I see.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
I don't like looking at it like that.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
I think I'm welcome to be like really hyper excited
about this project, and that doesn't have any bearing on
anything that I've done before. Okay, I just know that
I'm excited about this project, this music, and the new label.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
That's what you're saying. No, babies, No, No, we don't.
What's up? What's what's what? Season?
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Are we looking forward to the album?
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Like? Are you going to rush to finish it? No?
I haven't rushed anything on this project.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
I think Actually one of the mixes that I just
got sent to my inbox this morning is like mixed
number nine on this song and it's going and individually
tweaking like words and like, hey, we're gonna get like
the smallest volume bump up on this one part right
here in this section of the song. So I've been
(14:34):
very meticulous about it. My buddy Andy Sheridan and me
are co producing this whole thing together, and it's just
been a really fun process. You know, art's never perfected,
it's abandoned.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Uh So.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
I'm just really happy with everything that we've done on
it so far. Ready to get the the dates locked
in to go in one more time track, a couple
more things, sing some stuff, and then it'll be done.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
Ready to be packaged up.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
I can't wait, man, Chris Young, I appreciate the time
today rather thank you, Thank you, dude,
Wayne Dean Studio with a guy that we haven't caught
up with a little while, but we got an amazing
reason to because this new music season for Chris Young.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Baby, yeah it is, yeah, it is how you feeling
about things amazing?
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Man.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
You know, first time I really got a chance to
be a free agent. I've been at Sony my whole
career for almost nineteen years. And my deal was up,
and I was like, I'm going to go take meetings.
And the very first meeting I went into is with
Black River Entertainment, and dude, we had a three hour meeting.
(00:35):
I don't have three hour meetings. I'm not a three
hour meeting.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Guy.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
They sound horrible, but this one was amazing and I
got up and I canceled all my other meetings. I
was like, this is where I need to be, this
is where I want to be.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
And how nerve wracking is that. I mean, you're at
a point in your career where you've made a lot
of great music, You're established in your career, so like you.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Have more.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Level ground to make decisions. Then maybe the newer artists
who's like, I'm going to find something else and it's like,
well hang on, but I'd imagine it was still nerve
racking to be like, I'm gonna I want to try
something different.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Uh No, not really, and I mean again, I had
several meetings set up with different people, and I called
everybody after I walked out of the meeting, was like, Hey,
the deal points they offered me are amazing. Nobody's going
to match this. They love all the music. I had
just an incredible meeting with them. I know a lot
(01:33):
of the people that work there from over the years,
just in Nashville, and then all the people that I
met that I didn't know just really really were invested
and we're like, you know, we want you to be
the priority here, and it just felt really good and
(01:53):
I was just like, Yeah, this is where I'm supposed
to be.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
I'd imagine when you're looking for a new dancing partner,
what's more important to you being able to like do
things your way the song creation, you know, let them
worry about what they do right, but you get to
do what you want to say.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Oh no, I don't ever let anybody else just worry
about it, and I'll pay attention to everything. I'm annoying
to a fault with that, But I've always you know,
at least after my second record, I've never really had
anybody tell me, hey, do you have to do this
or we don't want you to do that. Like I've
(02:33):
been allowed, you know, a good amount of creative freedom.
There's just a different level on it right now with
this album.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
And this process.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
And you know, I mean most people going first single,
new record would not go, you know what, we should
do this beautiful.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Love song that's a ballad and no one bad deny
at it.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
They were like, we love this song and I love
this song. It's called Till the Last Dies, and uh,
you know, it's just a really awesome like I mean,
it's wedding season. It would work for that. It just
works as a way to say I love you to.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Somebody in song for him.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
And the hook of the song got me the very
first time I listened to it because it's saying, you know,
I bought a dozen roses on the way to you tonight,
eleven real ones, one fake one, and I'll love you
till the last one dies.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
I was just like, I've never heard that before.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Yeah, there's there's one fake one in that. Let's go
the bouquet roses that I brought. So although you made
fun of me, you're like, oh, you can't give him
to the guy.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
He's like, have you not heard the song? Which I did,
and we love it when it. When it comes to
where you're at career wise, how important was it to
find somebody who was just as passionate Because there's and
this isn't me talking about any your label or any
specific label, but priorities for record labels are different than
(03:56):
priorities for artists, and sometimes artists gets stuck in a
holding pattern with I got a new music or I
got an album, and they'll say, okay, hey wait because
we're gonna push this one and then we'll come back
to this one. How important was it to you to
find a spot where you can kind of release music
the way you want to?
Speaker 3 (04:11):
I mean, I think that's important for everybody. You said it.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
You know, nobody wants to be in a position where
they feel like they're they're handcuffed or it's not working
out for.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
The label or for the artist.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
It's it's got to be, you know, a complimentary situation
for everybody. And that was one of the things that
I just really felt that from the get go.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
How do you avoid Nashville has become this like music
machine where where this newer wave of artists is like
I'm putting out a new song every Friday. I'm putting
out a seventy five song album every six months.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
How do you avoid?
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Like, that's that's great for you, but like, how do
you how do you avoid number one, the pressure to
do that or or keep up with with the machine
aspect of it.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Well, there's no pressure there.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
I think they teach their own I know that there
are a lot of people that that would put out,
you know, a forty song album every year if they could.
I don't know that that works for everybody. I think
everybody is a little bit different, and it's not cookie cutter.
It's not you know, follow these four steps and you're famous,
(05:21):
Like that's that's not or you'll make great music every time.
That's just not how music works.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
It's art.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
And I think that, you know, maybe that changes over
time for certain artists. Maybe it works for one artist
but not for another artist. So I don't think there's
any pressure from that aspect of it.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
I know what you're asking, Yeah, but.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
You know, I wrote four songs this week that I
already sang and have demos on That doesn't mean I'm
going to put those four songs out every Friday. I
still believe in the prospect of, you know, calling down
those songs and putting out an album. Maybe it's fourteen
or fifteen songs, but having that and then being able
(06:05):
to put some songs different places where there's different avenues
for them to get attention and it's not just focused
on whatever the main single is. But as far as
just you know, releasing something every week, I don't know
if that works for me.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
When it comes to the album process, it's so much
different than it used to be, because there are there's.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Okay, here's my album.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
May third, here's my album, and then it's like August thirtieth,
here's the deluxe edition, where it's you're releasing the album
all over again, but there's four new songs. Do you
like that or would you rather just keep those songs
and put out a new album faster?
Speaker 3 (06:46):
No?
Speaker 2 (06:46):
I think you know, there's a way now to do
that and really maximize the potential of that of sort
of the reminder to people that maybe listen to it
a lot when it first came out, and this is
their to go back and fall in love with some
of those other songs. And then also maybe the first
time around, people didn't really gravitate towards the album as
(07:09):
a whole. Maybe they weren't paying attention. There's constant, you know,
stuff going on. You open your phone, there's eighty seven
things trying to get your attention. Yeah, so maybe that
grab somebody that heard whatever the first single was and
they're like, oh, I really love that song. I wonder
what the rest of the album's like. Oh, hey, here's
a deluxe that's got four more new songs that you
(07:31):
haven't heard yet. So I think that's a valuable tool
for sure, what's.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
The song on this on this past project? That because
obviously as an artist who're like top to bottom, hid
play let it roll? Like are you're you are? You're
very intentional with with the way songs lay out on
an album or do you just throw them on?
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Well, you don't just throw them off. I don't know
anybody that does that. Just them in there, let's go
alphabetical order. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
I do think that there's still an art to having,
you know, a list and an order of songs where
it does feel cohesive, but also it you know, kind
of pulls the listener in and you're gonna go from
ballads to tempos on some parts of the record.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
That's just going to happen.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Said, I feel like we're like dissecting the music industry
in this conversation as opposed to actually talking about the music.
But it's sorry if anybody's listening to this, just like
why are they talking about all this stuff? But I
think it's still very important, at least to me, when
you when you make that album, because even if people
just listen to the singles, fine, they listen to singles, or
(08:39):
they pick individual songs out that they want to listen
to their favorites, but the first listen down, I still
listen to an album starts finish.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Yeah, is there a song that that, as you your
career has grown, you poured so much into that you
that maybe if you talk to fans, you'd be like, hey,
I appreciate y'all all of these on the album, but
like I poured a lot of heart into this one too,
like give this one some time as well.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
I don't know necessarily if there's a song like that.
I mean, I think everybody's going to find their favorites. Yeah,
you know, so for one person that might be you
know what the last number one was. For another person
it might be track ten and they're just like, oh
this one, this one spoke to me. So And that's
(09:27):
why you make an album is because there's some for
everybody on there.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
When it comes to the new song Till the Last
One Dies, I'd imagine it's the first offering a bigger
project is underway, and I'm not a.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
No, it's just first single. We're just dropping one at
a time. I'll lie about everything. No, I'm about a
little over halfway done with the full project.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
So is it difficult not knowing? Do you know the
full album? Like what's going to land on there?
Speaker 3 (09:58):
M hm? Okay?
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Why what made this the one that raised its hand
like this is going to be first? Because you mentioned
like it's a ballad, it's the first one that might
really be normal.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
We actually had it narrowed down to two different songs,
and when I say different, they are very different because
one of them is the tempo party song called I
Didn't come here to Leave that I love and the
other one was Till the Last One Dies. And I
went back and started looking and actually, my manager, who's
sitting over there in the corner on her.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Phone, came to me.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
It was like I just pulled, like the history of
the last like six seven singles. You haven't really had
a love song ballad that's like could be a first
dance at a wedding in a while. I've had things
like looking for You that talk about being in love
and talk about that the idea of love, or like
maybe there's a sexy love song in there, but as
(10:53):
far as like a beautiful ballad just a new way
to say I love you in song for him, I
hadn't done one of those in a while, and so
I was like, there's no rule that says I can't
put out a ballad first, so I wanted to go
with this one.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
What excites you about the album process or is it
different now that you have a new team on the
label side. Does that affect any of the creation process for.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
You as far as the creativity part on my end,
not really, But it's it's awesome to see them excited
about it and see new ideas getting thrown across the
table when we're in meetings and just thinking about stuff.
Maybe from a different perspective than I have in the past.
It doesn't feel as locked in. It feels like it's
(11:38):
a new chapter and everything sort of wide open.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Was that part of the appeal to making a change
is that, like, I don't want to say it gives
you a restart point, but it kind of lets you
like put a fresh coat of paint on the hat.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
I hope not. I don't. I don't know. I don't
know if I'm old enough that I need a start, but.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
I I just think it's definitely.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
A new chapter.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Yeah, so to speak, like, it's not taking away anything
that I've done in the past, but this is sort
of like, Okay, we turned the page. This is all
new going forward with a new team and a new
vision on it, and they'll both marry together, and you know,
all the songs that people love will still be at
the shows. But making some new stuff for him is
always fun.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
When when you have this fresh breath of fresh air
going into the new album. Is any part of you like, oh,
that feels like the last chapter of my music as.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
You're creating it, or are you like, no, this is
I don't look at it like that is me?
Speaker 1 (12:45):
No?
Speaker 2 (12:45):
I yeah, I think at this point everybody knows what
I sound like, and.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
So there's no rap songs on the new albums.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
No, I didn't do that on this particular project. I'm
sorry to disappoint you. There's there's no rap songs on
this album.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Heltho, listen.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
We support all you do, but that one might stick
out a little bit.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
It's fine.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
What are you most excited about now with this new
music as far as you know, getting it in front
of fans?
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Exactly what you just said, Because I've been living with
this stuff for months now, and I'm just ready for
this song to be out there. Because I've listened to
it a lot. I'm excited about it. Everybody that I've
played it for gets excited about it the first time
they hear it. I'm just ready for everybody to hear
it for the first time.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
I'm excited.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
You a buddy of ours that works here at the
radio station, Ryan McKitty, Oh yeah, he saw you recently
and he's like, Dude, this guy's so excited about this song. Man,
more excited than you've been maybe for past singles. You
feel that way, I see.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
I don't like looking at it like that.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
I think I'm welcome to be like really hyper excited
about this project, and that doesn't have any bearing on
anything that I've done before. Okay, I just know that
I'm excited about this project, this music, and the new label.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
That's what you're saying. No, babies, No, No, we don't.
What's up? What's what's what? Season?
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Are we looking forward to the album?
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Like? Are you going to rush to finish it? No?
I haven't rushed anything on this project.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
I think Actually one of the mixes that I just
got sent to my inbox this morning is like mixed
number nine on this song and it's going and individually
tweaking like words and like, hey, we're gonna get like
the smallest volume bump up on this one part right
here in this section of the song. So I've been
(14:34):
very meticulous about it. My buddy Andy Sheridan and me
are co producing this whole thing together, and it's just
been a really fun process. You know, art's never perfected,
it's abandoned.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Uh So.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
I'm just really happy with everything that we've done on
it so far. Ready to get the the dates locked
in to go in one more time track, a couple
more things, sing some stuff, and then it'll be done.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
Ready to be packaged up.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
I can't wait, man, Chris Young, I appreciate the time
today rather thank you, Thank you, dude,
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