{"id":118916,"date":"2024-12-09T12:03:52","date_gmt":"2024-12-09T12:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/12\/09\/dan-shay-want-to-help-you-pick-out-a-christmas-tree\/"},"modified":"2024-12-09T12:03:52","modified_gmt":"2024-12-09T12:03:52","slug":"dan-shay-want-to-help-you-pick-out-a-christmas-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/12\/09\/dan-shay-want-to-help-you-pick-out-a-christmas-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan + Shay want to help you ‘Pick Out a Christmas Tree’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pop\/country duo Dan + Shay<\/strong> have a holiday hit on their hands with “Pick Out a Christmas Tree<\/a>.” The song first came out in 2022, but it’s also included on Dan + Shay’s new holiday album,\u00a0It’s Officially Christmas: The Double Album.<\/em><\/p>\n

Dan Smyers<\/strong> says the song was inspired by his and partner Shay Mooney<\/strong>‘s real-life experiences. “I know in both mine and Shay’s family, picking out a Christmas tree is a huge part of the holiday tradition. Always has been, always will be,” he says.<\/p>\n

“We wanted to be able to have a soundtrack for whenever they go pick out a Christmas tree, whether it’s at a store down the street, whether it’s at a Christmas tree farm or whether it’s in their backyard,” Dan adds. “This is the song that they need to crank up.”<\/p>\n

“Pick Out a Christmas Tree” is far from the duo’s only holiday song \u2014 they’ve been releasing them on and off since 2014, but It’s Officially Christmas <\/em>is their first-ever holiday album. As Shay explains, it’s been a very long time coming, which\u00a0is why it has 21 tracks on it.<\/p>\n

“You know, our fans have been begging for this for the last\u00a010 years. And I feel like every year we let them down. We’d tease a little bit of, ‘Maybe this will be the year,’ but we didn’t have it done,” says Shay.<\/p>\n

“And this past year we had a random snowfall in Nashville in January and we were kind of inspired,” he continues. “And we started writing all these songs … it was very ambitious of us. We ended up putting together a double album. … It’s awesome to have a massive collection of songs finally together that our fans can kind of consume all at once.”<\/p>\n