Raymundo

so i sent the song to ko and he was like dude i am in like this is a song and i was like what if we just do it and don't tell anybody and so that's exactly what we did we booked a studio out in cisco texas and uh booked the film crew and we went out there and we cut the song and uh we turned it in and i said hey i want this to be the first thing off the new record i think this is the

this is the perfect thing to kind of set the tone for the next chapter of, of country music in my career.

And, uh, you know, three days later it shipped to radio, like to my, my team's credit, they, one, they didn't, they didn't get in the way of that.

They were really fully behind it.

But two is like, you know, in today's world, everything's very data heavy.

It's like, Oh, the song's got a,

it's got to stream x amount for x amount of time and then it'll go to radio if it hits all these benchmarks and and we were just like man we really ko and i both really believe people are gonna dig this song like our fans are gonna like this and we should just follow that and like forget the data like we still there's still a place for like taste making in country music like i tell this dumb story about like getting my my son to try steak for the first time

he's like, well, it's not a cheeseburger.

I'm like, just close your eyes and try this.

You don't know, you're going to love this, but you don't know it yet.

And, you know, he takes his first bite.

He's like, this is amazing, you know?

Um, and I still feel like that is, that is a responsibility of artists.

Um, but I think we kind of lose the forest for the, for the trees sometimes.

And we, we want to know without a doubt that a song is going to work, but

the beauty of this was like, we followed our gut, we followed our intuition and we put the song out and it's been the fastest, uh, fastest climbing radio single we've ever had.

And just like a really, a really cool and different texture to in the country music landscape.

There's just been a fun, fun thing, but, uh, yeah, kind of took a page out of co's book and we just did whatever the hell we wanted to do.

That's definitely a page out of Coe's book.

Yeah.