Dan + Shay are celebrating the tenth anniversary of their debut album — and taking a second to replicate.
The nation duo — Dan Smyers and Shay Mooney — spoke with ET’s Rachel Smith on the 2024 ACM Awards on Thursday night time, they usually mirrored on the milestone launch of 2014’s The place It All Started — which was not too long ago rereleased on vinyl to have a good time the anniversary.
“It was a full circle second to listen to that album that began every little thing on vinyl,” Smyers mirrored. “It was, I do not know, type of emotional.”
“I believe we now have a brand new gratitude for what we get to do,” Mooney added. “There was factors in our profession the place we did not know if we might do that collectively anymore.”
“We pushed by all that [and] like several relationship, it is gotten a lot stronger,” he added. “To have the ability to be right here now, it is only a utterly completely different ball sport. I imply, we’re so grateful that we get to nonetheless be right here getting to do that and having far more enjoyable than we ever have, so I am grateful for that.”
Along with their musical milestone, the duo can also be celebrating one other first this 12 months. They joined The Voice season 25 because the first-ever teaching duo — and are competing in subsequent week’s finale with a rustic singer of their very own, Karen Waldrup.
They’re going to be going through off in opposition to extra of The Voice’s star-studded coaches, together with Reba MeEntire, and the pair could not assist however rave concerning the nation music legend — who additionally served as this 12 months’s ACMs host.
“Reba’s the most effective. She’s killing it proper now, she’s in all places,” Smyers marveled.
“She’s completely killing the sport. She’s been doing this for therefore lengthy however she nonetheless carries herself with a lot grace, a lot humility,” he continued, including with fun, “I imply she treats us so good and she or he does not must.”
For her half, McEntire had noting however reward for Dan + Shay when ET spoke with the season 25 coaches forward of the premiere.
“They offer nice notes. They’re actually good,” she praised. “They’re educated concerning the enterprise, however additionally they have quite a lot of coronary heart and that is what they are going for.”
Dan + Shay mentioned on the time that they have been followers of the present for years — they served as mentors for Blake Shelton’s workforce again in season 20 and even stepped in to visitor coach Niall Horan’s workforce final season — however famous that attending to function full-time coaches for the primary time has been an entire new expertise.
“It is modified every little thing for us,” Shay admitted. “I simply actually benefit from the technique of attending to work with these artists, and you actually, you get connected. It turns into heartbreaking when you must let individuals go, nevertheless it’s been an incredible expertise.”
The 59th Academy of Nation Awards streamed reside on Prime Video. The Voice’s two-part season 25 finale airs reside Monday and Tuesday, Might 20 & 21, at 8 p.m. PT/ET on NBC.
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