Dan + Shay Say ‘Steal My Love’ Was ‘The Positivity That We Needed’

Author Lauren Hoffman

January 3rd 5:51 PM

Dan + Shay have been cranking out hits for years, and with that comes very memorable music videos. While guest hosting Shawn Parr’s Backstage Country this week, Dan Smyers and Shay Mooney of the country duo took us back to their 2021 album, Good Things.

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“This song is so fun. Since this song came out, we’ve gotten to tour. We did our tour, our headlining arena tour. It popped off there, and then we did this out on the road with Kenny Chesney in stadiums. And there’s no better environment to do this song than in freaking football stadiums in the middle of summer opening for Kenny Chesney. And we had beach balls. We kicked them out into the crowd. [We] feel like Kenny’s crew was like, ‘That’s our trick!'”

Smyers continued, “I still just love the melody of this song. That song, just the minute it starts, the crowd goes wild and they sing it with us and dance. And man, just especially after everything that we had all been through, we were just coming out of the pandemic, like to come out with a single like that that we got to play at our shows was like the positivity that our crowd needed, but also the positivity that we needed. ”

While filming the video in Springfield, Tennessee, Dan + Shay are seen in red jumpsuits running away from robbers. “It was awesome, man. I felt like a Tom Cruise character. We had little zip lines, you know, rolling down and it was a whole deal. But it was so hot. We were those jumpsuits for hours and hours, and it was a two-day shoot, I believe. And we were there and it just sweating through,” Mooney revealed.

Smyers chimed in saying, “Out of our comfort zone a little bit. It was cool, man. It made us have like a whole new appreciation for artists and people who dance on stage. Like just the mental aspect of that, trying to remember those moves. I’m like, Okay, right foot. That’s my left foot.”

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Dan + Shay will hit the road in February for their headlining 2024 The Heartbreak On The Map Tour with special guests Ben Rector and Hailey Whitters. For more information, visit danandshay.com and follow Dan + Shay on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok to see more.

11 Songs That Made Dan + Shay Grammy Darlings

• 11. “Nothin’ Like You” (2015)

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  "Nothin' Like You" is from the duo’s debut album, ‘Where It All Began.’ The guys co-wrote the song and it became their first number one on the Billboard Country Airplay chart.

• 10. “Good Things” (2021)

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  The fourth single from their fourth album – which was also called ‘Good Things’ (2021). The song looks at the positive side of life and gives some comfort as the world recovers from the 2020 pandemic.

• 9. “19 You + Me” (2013)

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  Released in October 2013, it was Dan + Shay's debut single and was co-written by both of them. It's a great tune that introduced us to these guys. Fun fact: they met at a Nashville party. See, it’s worth going out, you never know who you’ll meet!
• 8.” From the Ground Up” (2016)

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  Inspired by the love shared by the duo member's respective grandparents, the song was written shortly after Dan lost his grandfather and while Shay's was in the hospital. The duo called it "the most special song we've ever written."

• 7. “Glad You Exist” (2021)

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  Dan Smyers told the press that he had the phrase "glad you exist" to be appreciative of his wife Abby Smyers and to be grateful that she is living in the same time as him. He brought it to Shay Mooney, and the two were thinking of ideas, wanting to create a gratitude song about their friends, family, and fans.

• 6. “All to Myself” (2019)

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  The video for the song was released in April 2019. Using the theme of shadows, it shows the duo performing the song in a dark room, while shadows (which are pieces of paper with the song's lyrics cut into them) appear on a wall in the same room.
• 5. “Tequila” (2018)

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  This song made a big impact on Dan + Shay’s career. The song won the Grammy Award for Best Country Duo/Group Performance at the 61st Grammy Awards as well as both Single and Song of the Year at the 54th Academy of Country Music Awards. It's a great anthem.

• 4. “Speechless” (2018)

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  A great wedding song. The song's video is great too. It features footage from Smyers' and Mooney's 2017 weddings, including the grooms' first looks at their brides, the brides walking down the aisle, and the couples' introductions at their respective receptions.

• 3. “Lying” (2021)

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  The duo’s single from August 2021. It's a great song with a vibe and lyrics to match. In July 2021, Dan + Shay announced the song and its release date along with a teaser video. On the song's chorus, they sing the lines, "I don't miss you in my bed / I don't hear you in my head / I don't love you / I'm not cryin' / And I swear, I'm not lyin.'"
• 2. “I Should Probably Go to Bed” (2020)

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  In my interview about the song with the duo, the duo gushed about how excited they were for this one to come out. Smyers also produced the song and played every instrument on it from his own house. He told me that he had the song's title saved on his phone for months before the conception of the song.

• 1.”10,000 Hours” (with Justin Bieber) (2019)

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  An amazing song and surely a song that will be played at countless weddings for decades to come. The song was named Best Country Duo/Group Performance at the 2021 Grammy Awards. In addition, “10,000 Hours” debuted at number four on the US Billboard Hot 100. It also made history on Billboard's Streaming Songs chart by becoming the highest-charting non-holiday country song in the history of the chart, besting the number nine peak of Florida Georgia Line's "Cruise.”

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Author Lauren Hoffman

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