Hardy

they uh it's funny i uh there's a lot of songs though that i just it's a slammer but it's just not for me and and and uh there's a lot of time a lot of writers that i have even friends of mine that i'm that are like you sure or like i can tell i'm like man this would be good for this would be great for you know blake shelton and and they're like oh yeah cool you know maybe you was yeah yeah um

but even that is very, I usually know, but, but by the time we get like verse chorus, if I'm going to, if I'm going to cut the song or if I'm going to, you know, give it to someone else or, or hopefully give it to someone else.

But I will say, I don't ever play anybody my best stuff ever until it's out.

I just like the big reveal and keeping it a secret.

I just feel like it's more of an explosion when it comes out, even with your friends and stuff.

To get Nashville talking about a song is just as important as the public hearing about it, I think.

I just think that people buzz about a song and...

I don't know what it is, but there's just something about Nashville buzzing about a song that just helps it always.

It's very different.

I mean, I think Nashville's work ethic is better than other cities I've written in.

I think that top liners like Lyric and Melody, or at least lyric writers, storytellers, I think it's the best in the world.

I think that Nashville has the greatest storytellers in the world.

And it is.

It's a machine.

And it all starts with the song, which I think is really cool, man.

And like right now, today, what time is it right now?

It's 10-11 right now.

There are more, there's probably 300 rooms of people writing songs right now in Nashville trying to get the next hit.

Excuse me.

And there's a lot of those songs that are going to be, have potential to be the next, you know, in the next year, a big old hit.