{"id":17898,"date":"2020-10-14T08:45:04","date_gmt":"2020-10-14T12:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/?p=17898"},"modified":"2020-10-15T04:25:27","modified_gmt":"2020-10-15T08:25:27","slug":"dan-shay-trying-not-to-feel-the-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2020\/10\/dan-shay-trying-not-to-feel-the-pressure\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan + Shay Trying Not To Feel The Pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OXkQV2itldc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>With a string of chart-topping hits to their credit, Dan + Shay are quite comfortable at the top of the charts.<\/p>\n<p>The duo seems to have the Midas touch, turning everything they release to country radio into gold, or in their case, platinum.<\/p>\n<p>Dan Smyers and Shane Mooney have also written the majority of the songs they&#8217;ve recorded, so when it comes to writing these days, the pressure to follow up their prior success can be intense.<\/p>\n<p>But as Shay said he and Dan try not to let expectations get in the way.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;There&#8217;s a lot of pressure, you know, on that to make something that is, you know, universally loved and try not to put ourselves into too much of a box but overall when we get in the writer&#8217;s room we try not to think through that too much. We don&#8217;t think into it. We just try to write a great song and we kind of know whenever we got that and so usually when we dive in on a song we hopefully have something special there.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The duo&#8217;s current &#8220;something special&#8221; is their latest hit, &#8220;I Should Probably Go To Bed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CGSknCnBlRd\/embed\/captioned\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display:inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height:0;\"  class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With a string of chart-topping hits to their credit, Dan + Shay are quite comfortable at the top of the charts.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":17922,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"No","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[43,2344],"class_list":["post-17898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-dan-shay","tag-i-should-probably-go-to-bed"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-11 04:48:53","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country929.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2020\/10\/dan-shay-trying-not-to-feel-the-pressure\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17898"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17921,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17898\/revisions\/17921"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}