Maddie and Tae broke big with some bro-country snark, then it all blew up. Now they're recovering in style
Madison Marlow and Taylor Dye met as teenagers, and moved to Nashville after high school hoping to get famous, which they soon did. Their first single, the bro-country broadside "Girl in a Country Song," hit when they were 19. A successful full-length debut, "Start Here," followed, but the duo's record label soon collapsed underneath it. Maddie and Tae didn't release another album for almost five years, a potentially perilous gap for an emerging act.
The duo's sophomore release takes the form of three EPs, two
