It’s hard to imagine Dan Smyers and Shay Mooney—the artists behind the three-time Grammy Award-winning duo Dan + Shay—as anything but happy. The hitmakers have been comfortably seated at the top of the charts for most of their ten-year career. Most recently, their critically acclaimed and multi-award-winning fourth studio album, Good Things, produced the Platinum-certified hits “I Should Probably Go To Bed” and “Glad You Exist,” as well as the 5x Multi-Platinum global smash “10,000 Hours” with Justin Bieber, which has racked up more than two billion global streams (thus far) and spent 21 weeks at number one on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart. Over the past decade, Dan + Shay have become household names all over the world, amassing more than 11 billion streams globally, multiple international no. 1 singles, and 49 total RIAA Platinum and Gold certifications in the U.S. alone. In other words, they were on top of the world.
IF YOU’RE NOT GOING OUT OF YOUR WAY TO NURTURE THAT RELATIONSHIP, IT’S GOING TO FALL APART. IT WAS NOTHING SPECIFIC, IT WAS JUST THAT WE WEREN’T SPENDING ENOUGH TIME KINDLING THAT RELATIONSHIP.”
So when the duo took to social media on July 9 to share a short film called “The Drive,” fans were taken aback. In the four-minute clip, the duo, seated side by side in a vintage Ford Bronco, revealed that they almost went.
