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Dan + Shay Explain ‘Good Things’ Wet Album Cover

Dan + Shay shot the cover for their new Good Things album in Joshua Tree, Califonia, and it was hot. So hot, that with all their clothes on — jeans and all…

Dan + Shay Explain 'Good Things' Wet Album Cover
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Dan + Shay shot the cover for their new Good Things album in Joshua Tree, Califonia, and it was hot. So hot, that with all their clothes on -- jeans and all -- the duo jumped into a swimming pool as they were shooting photos for the new project. 

Dan Smyers told us, "There was a swimming pool there, and it was kinda hot, like a 110 degrees in the desert. We're like, 'Man, it would feel pretty good to go in that pool. What if we jumped in there, and maybe we could get a picture.' It might be the thing. You think of all these iconic album covers throughout the history of music and they're always just some random spur-of-the-moment unplanned thing." 

He continues, "We got in that pool, and we dipped our toes in first and then, 'What if we like put our jeans in,' then we just kept going in further and further. Then the photographers, who were well prepared, maybe they knew there was gonna be a pool there, and they had this underwater casing for the camera, which still made me nervous 'cause those cameras they're shooting with are like, way more expensive than my life."

Smyers explained, "The photographer just jumped in in his clothes and went in, and he's underwater shooting these photos, and we're chilling in there feeling great. I mean, we are out in the desert, and we were sweating two minutes ago, and now we're just chilling in the pool hanging out. It was just a magic moment. We weren't staged, we weren't set up or put a certain way, we were just hanging out, laughing, and having a good time."    

Good Things will be out tomorrow (8/13). 

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Nancy Brooks has been working in the country music industry for almost 30 years. She has interviewed pretty much any country star you can think of. In the late 1990s, she started working with Dolly Parton. And yes, Nancy reports that Parton is as sweet as you would think. She loves her life in country music and has been backstage at every CMA Awards show since the late 1990s. Many of her stories are from her one-on-one interviews. She was there at the beginning of the incredible careers of many music superstars today, including Taylor Swift, Shania Twain, and Blake Shelton, and has interviewed them multiple times throughout the years.