{"id":1308132,"date":"2019-04-08T17:37:53","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T23:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1805140"},"modified":"2019-04-08T17:37:53","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T23:37:53","slug":"acm-awards-backstage-and-upfront-with-dan-shay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/acm-awards-backstage-and-upfront-with-dan-shay\/","title":{"rendered":"ACM Awards: Backstage and Upfront with Dan + Shay"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Lauren Tingle<\/a><\/span> 25m ago<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n

Dan + Shay<\/a>\u2019s excellent adventure continued when they visited the backstage press conferences at Sunday\u2019s (April 7) 54th annual ACM Awards.<\/p>\n

Still on a high after their victorious sweep and first ACM wins, Shay Mooney and Dan Smyers revealed that the miracle of DVR allowed them to watch their moment in the spotlight on instant replay before they performed with Kelly Clarkson.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat Reba said, that was like the coolest thing that\u2019s ever happened,\u201d Mooney said with a laugh. \u201cWe were on our bus, getting ready for the performance, and we rewound it six times.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Reba McEntire, the night\u2019s host, waited in the wings and watched Dan + Shay as they took questions from the press. The night also marked the first time the \u201cTequila\u201d songwriters, Smyers, Nicolle Galyon and Jordan Reynolds, got to celebrate their stellar year with the Grammy-winning song together.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s more from Dan + Shay\u2019s backstage interview.<\/p>\n

On whether their moment feels like Chris Stapleton\u2019s 2016 sweep \u2026<\/strong> Myers: \u201cHonestly, we don\u2019t feel worthy to be mentioned in the same sentence as Chris Stapleton. He\u2019s just such a legend, one of the most talented singers of all time. We\u2019re just fans of country music \u2026 We moved to Nashville in 2010 because we wanted to write country music. We never imagined this would happen. This is so surreal.\u201d<\/p>\n

On if the past year\u2019s achievements with \u201cTequila\u201d changes the way they dream of what\u2019s next<\/strong> \u2026 Myers: \u201cWhen it\u2019s happening, you don\u2019t realize that it\u2019s happening. You\u2019re just so focused on what\u2019s going on in the moment, and we got to sing a song called \u2018Keeping Score\u2019 tonight with Kelly Clarkson, which is a song that we wrote that was inspired about comparison and not comparing yourself to others. This era that we live in is crazy in the era of social media. Everything is so quantifiable. We always look at what\u2019s on the other side of the fence. We look at what everyone else is doing instead of just appreciating [what we have].\u201d<\/p>\n

On the brotherly love Brothers Osborne and Florida Georgia Line are throwing them right now<\/strong> \u2026 Mooney: \u201cWell, I think it has a lot to do with just the nature of Nashville. You come up, you move to Nashville, and you play in bars, and you get in every writing room you possibly can, and you try to write the best music you possibly can. It\u2019s not, \u2018Man I want to beat this other duo.\u2019 It\u2019s, \u2018Those are my friends, and we all put a lot of work to get where we are right now.\u2019 And I think there\u2019s room for every success for every single artist. I think there\u2019s room for all of us. And instead of trying to kick each other on the way up the ladder, I think we need to help each other out \u2026 No matter what category you fit in the country music family, I think we need to lift each other up because we all know how it was to get here.\u201d<\/p>\n

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