He's young, he's talented, and he is hot! But at his essence, he's a family man, and that's coming through loud and clear in rising Country star, Brett Young's, music. He's today's guest on LOVE SOMEONE.
"Weekends Look A Little Different These Days", is this new dad-of-two's latest album. One of the hit singles, "Lady," he penned as a letter to his first daughter when he and his wife were expecting. It's message, and one he restates in our conversation, is about the love he has for his wife, and the great esteem he holds for her as an example of all that is good.
That's just the kind of guy he is, kind, respectful, and generous of spirit... talented as all get out too! Brett's the perfect guest to lead us into a Valentine's state of mind! Join in! ~ Delilah
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It's February already, that's deep winter in many parts of the country. A season of steaming hot bowls of soup, of tea kettles, singing on the stove, a season of thick books and thicker socks of paper, snowflake making, puzzle assembling on the dining table, of all things warm and wonderful. So it's no surprise that for centuries it's also been the season of love. And the star of that love show is Valentine's Day, appearing one day only February. And what a show it is, with all the fanfare, the biggest Broadway production. The stage is set with flowers and hearts and cards and chocolates. Oh how I loved the Valentine's exchanges during my school days. Okay, I admit I thought it was all about me because of my birthday, which is the next day, and so I thought Valentine's was all about me. While Valentine's Day is also often associated with romantic dinners for two and someone on bended knee holding a sparkly diamond and a big question mark floating over their head, for me, for my family, it's been years of heart shaped pancakes for breakfast. I make red pancakes every Valentine's Day for my kids. Heart shaped sandwiches. I have a heart shaped cookie cutter that I use on sandwiches and I put them in brown paper bags decorated with more hearts. And a family dinner that often comes with mashed potatoes dyed red, served under paper streamers. I put crape paper streamers over the dining table with lots of hugs and giggles for my kids. Romantic love is wonderful. It is It's a cause for celebration, but it is often fleeting, even if you are in a long term, committed, loving relationship. Those those giddy butterflies they fly away after the first few months, and then you get down to the real hard work, the truth of love. Today's guest on love Someone seems to have come around to the very same conclusion. He's young, he's talented, he is so so darn good looking, and it is essence he's a family man, and that is coming through loud and clear in his music, which has both fans and the music industry looking up, lending in the air, and taking notice. This hit maker is only one of four artists in the modern era to have their first seven singles go number one on country air Check media base. He is not seven consecutive gold and platinum certified number one hits, including In Case You didn't Know, Mercy, Sleep Without You, Like I Loved You, Here to Night, Catch, and my favorite so far, Lady. He is racked up over six point two billion global streams. Here with Me today, celebrating Valentine's Day, celebrating love, celebrating family is the very talented, very handsome Brett Young. We're gonna get caught up on everything going on in his world, including his recent album Weekends Look a Little Different These Days. Right after I share a little love with one of my podcast sponsors. I love Mercy Ship's spirit, and I'm so happy to share all the good they do in the world, providing free surgeries to suffering people who lack access to medical care. Today, I ask you to think about the last time you felt really good about doing something for another. Now imagine feeling like that every day you can. When you support the work of Mercy Ships, you're helping to transform people's lives. Visit Mercy ships dot org to learn the many ways you can be a part of the great work that they're doing Mercy Ships dot Org. Brett Young, welcome to love someone with the Lilah. I'm so glad you decided to take a little time out of your schedule to chat with us, because you're pretty busy. It's my pleasure. No, I'm I'm not busy. My kids are like already grown and um, right, how many of you gotten diapers right now? Both of them have. My youngest is six months today and then my oldest is Presley is just over two years. So I've got two little baby girls barely under two years old, and uh, and they're both in diverse but Presley is potty training right now, which is um exciting is the wrong word, but it does get a little exciting. Sometimes it does get exciting, and it'll be cheesier on Mama and you once that happens, that's right. But during the process of it, it's it's it can be challenging and exciting. So uh, I sent your song lady to my niece, not realizing she was ahead of me, and I've already heard it a thousand times because she has a four month old baby girl with her husband Nick, and they are like one of the cutest couples in the whole wide world. And she's a cry baby like me. And so I said, when Nick comes home from work today, when he comes to the door, I just want you to hand Addie Dean to him. This is my dedication to you guys. And then I said, but you've got to text me before he gets home so I can like know in my heart that this is happening. And so I called her after she texted me. I gave her like five minutes and she was still a hot mess, you know, just completely blubber face that you're out there using me to make people cry. I am, I am, And it was wonderful. It worked beautifully. So so did you write Lady with your first baby girl or number two? Yeah? That was for my first one for Pressley. We we were only I think five months pregnant when I wrote that song. And I think that the reason the song turned out the way it did was because I didn't know what it was like to be a parent yet. I was kind of only uh anticipating and experiencing the things that like scare you about that chapter of your life when you know nothing about it yet. And so the reason that song is is so much more about my wife than it is my daughter. It's kind of like a letter to my daughter about her mom is because the only thing I knew about that process is that I was fortunate to have my wife because she was gonna have to do it all because I was not going to be capable, and so, um yeah, it was. It was. It was my my letter to my first daughter, basically saying, I'm probably gonna screw this up, but don't worry because Mom will be there. And have you have you, like made any major blunders that mom had to correct? I mean that would be a better question for her. I don't think so if I If I did, she fixed it when I wasn't looking good answer. I think the biggest thing for me is like identifying roles um as parents, and I think that you of it is is both of your job, but then there are there's this five percent where where roles come in. At least that's how it's been in our house. And um, your your marriage is very different than the ones I was in. I just got to tell you, if you think it's shared very different, I say that, but I'm being like very gracious to myself because then I get on a tour bus and leave for like every weekend. So yeah, yeah, let's be honest, it's more like five. I mean, if you're gone on weekends, if you're touring and you're on the tour and you you've got rehearsals and the baby still has to be nursed and changed. Yeah, I guess that's what I'm saying. I got really good at dishes and taking out the trash. It's really like, you know, very good at the things that should have been good at anyway. So there's that. But I'm not scared of a diaper though, either. I'm gonna give myself a little credit there. I know some dads that are like, I'm not touching that. I mean, you made it. If you made this child and they're making this, you made this. Yeah you mad. Yeah, it's your job too. Biggest change in your heart since since you said I do. I mean, your music just like took a one eight you just like you went all in in the relationship and the you know, if your life is truly reflected in your music, you did that. You did a U turn in the middle of the street, in the middle of the freeway. You did a U turn. Yeah, I mean I mean, if you really track down from album one to you know what, we're finishing album three right now. Um, even the breakup songs were about my wife. We just we we had a little bit of a time trying to get to where we needed to be. We weren't always on the same page, and so, um it was always her for me. It was just that we weren't. I was a little bit older and I was I wanted to settle down before she did. And um, that's why you got breakup songs about my wife and then love songs about my wife on the next record. Um. I think the biggest change for me was no, I don't care what anybody says. Nobody likes chasing. Everybody always says I like to chase. They're lying. That's a single person that's young, that's really saying that I'm not ready to settle down yet. If you're ready to settle down, the chase is obnoxious and so UM, I think the biggest thing for me was just the security that comes with you know, when we finally got back together, Taylor and I just said, hey, we're not interested in dating each other for a third time around. If we're getting back together this is it, we're getting married, we're starting a family, like this is it. And the security that came with that. Um, I think, you know, brought a confidence that I hadn't really had in my relationship. But I think that carries over into your professional life and your personal life with other relationships with people too, and so, UM, I just I just really appreciate the security that came with knowing that we're doing this, we're committed to this, and I don't have to wonder about if this is the one or if this is gonna work out anymore. Well, it sounds like you always knew this was the one that just took her a little wild cat. Yeah, but she doesn't like when I say I told you so, so I try to keep that out of them. Okay, got it, You are awesome. So are you're kind of glad now you hurt your elbow all those years ago? Yeah? I mean that's a bitter sweet conversation because you know, I started playing baseball when I was four, and that injury happened when I was twenty two years old. And in California there's no weather restrictions, so you play year round, So you know, for eighteen years of my life and the part of your life that is most formidable. It's like it was. It was everything for me, So I do miss it. Um it wasn't fun. But if I had a chance to go back and not get injured and have baseball instead of music, I'd pick music. So and I would have never met my wife. Um, I moved. I moved to Arizona for an opportunity to write songs with a guy that had a publishing deal out there, and that's where she was going to school. So my life wouldn't be anything like it is right now, and so I wouldn't trade it for the world. Um. So short answer is absolutely, I'm glad that the elbow injury happened. But there's a little part of me that watches baseball all season long, going, you know, critiquing people and going, I could do it better. You know, I still have that in me. So there's a part of me that's a little bit nostalgic. But I wouldn't trade it for the world. Um. Can I make a suggestion, Yes, please. I I think maybe the Lord's going to have your coach and your your daughter's baseball teams very open to that one thing that I want for my girls is that I don't want to decide for them one way or the other. I don't want to discourage them from something or push them into something. UM. I want to kind of sit back and see what makes them happy and then whatever that is, I don't care. But I want to be a part of it. And so if my you know, I play guitar, but if my daughter decides that piano is her thing, I'm taking lessons with her, you know, whatever it is. If they're passionate, UM, that's the that's the road I want to go down with them. And if it ends up being a coach, awesome, I'm in good for you, Good for you. So when I started listening to the words of Weekends, Um, I was so I felt like I knew you, like you were one of my kids, or you were my little brother. You know, I felt like I was on that journey with you. You have a wonderful way of bringing people into the story when you sing. Do you know? Do you know that? Do you? Are you aware of your gift of you tell stories through your lyrics and through your music. I appreciate that. That's a that's um, that's a very nice compliment that that is my goal as a songwriter first and then also as a performer. I've never been able to reconcile with the fact that I might be asking an audience to connect with me on a song if I'm not visibly emotionally connected to it. And so it starts with the writing of the song. I mean, if it's not if there's any part of it that's not honest and authentic to me, it feels like a line and you're not going to hear that song. So everything that I put out is as raw and vulnerable as I can make it, only because it's the only way that I can feel justified asking people to care about my music, um, and come out and spend their money in their time being at a show or or sitting in their car and listening to my record. So, um, that is one of the best compliments you can give, because that's my primary goal. Before you know the song is even crafted well, it certainly comes shining through when I when I'm on the air at night. That's that's my goal, is to invite people into the relationship and into this story that I weave together. Um, and I love music. I love music. My father was a musician. He played the guitar and he had a little country western band and we were raised on music. My mom had a record player. We had a record player in our living room. I think that they got up from Costco and it, you know, forty fives and albums, and all of my siblings got the gift of music except for me, and I have a three note range and they're not even very good notes. But I love music. And the thing that I love most about country music is in country music you can turn a phrase and you can you can use an expression or a hook that you just get you know what I mean, you just get it. And all of your songs that I have ever listened to, I felt I was on that journey with you, like I knew you, like we were friends, even though I had never met you before today. I love that. I love that. I agree. I think, um, you know, growing up in southern California, especially at the time, you know, when I found I found country music in a song called Don't Take the Girl Tim McGraw and and uh at the time, I mean in southern California, we were all surfing and listening to Blink One, you know, like it was all punk rock and and you know, beach days and the whole thing. And I found country and nobody not only did nobody else listen to country, they all thought I was crazy for listening to the country music in southern California in the early nineties. And um, the thing that made me fall in love was the storytelling. I think you have an opportunity to bring people in to make them feel like, you know, not just that they were there and experienced that story with you, but like you said, like they know you. You almost feel like you always say that part of our job is to pull the curtain back a little bit more every time we put something out. You know, there's there's this there's this professional side of us, which is our music and our songwriting. But I think that with every new project, you gotta pull the curtain back a little bit more, even with social media. That's part of what I try to do is, um, I don't want to exploit my children or my family. But at the same time, that's you're hearing a record called Weekends look a little different these days about my family, But then I'm going to hide them from you. That doesn't make sense to me, and so I feel like my responsibility to people that are going to invest themselves in me and my career is to give them a little bit more than just the song. You need to understand why this song exists so that you could feel like we have something in common. And so I love that that comes across for you. Oh boy, does it come across loud and clear. You are very talented, very talented at being who you are, because I think you know, I've been in this business for a long time. I've been on the air since I was a teenager, and I think a lot of artists get really jaded or really um caught up in the business of it and the hype, and they forget that they put their pants on one leg at a time, and that if you have a baby, if the baby makes a dirty diaper, it's your dirty diaper, you know. And they they're all about image and posing on a red carpet and and wearing expensive clothes and sticking out their lips or their jawline or their hips or whatever it is. I don't, I don't. I don't know that this is the case, but I wonder sometimes how many people are kind of hiding behind their celebrity or their position rather than being rather than allowing themselves to be who they are. And I hope that's not the case for for too many, but I think I think you're seeing a lot of it right now. And and I just I couldn't do this if that was if I needed to be that way. Oh I'm glad you don't need to be that way. And I'm glad you're doing this because your music blesses a lot of people. And so, so you were you were in California, you were riding the waves, you were a beach bomb, planned baseball, and you heard, uh country music. Were your folks like, did they like country music? Or was this all you? I feel like the way you're setting up this question that you might have already heard the story, but if you have not, Um, I have a sister that's eight years older than me, and uh, rather than let us fight over who got shotgun, front seat just rotated every other time. So, UM, it doesn't work in my family. You know how many kids are my I'm almost pretty good at kind of the soft parenting distraction game. Um. And so we didn't really question that, but my sister didn't like it. She just didn't say no, So what she would do is every time I got the front seat, she would just kick the back of my seat for the entire ride to ruin my experience getting the front seats. And so your sister extremely successful too, because I think that personality, nothing's going to stop her from getting what she wants. My sister is one of my favorite people in the whole world. She didn't go into into the music business. But but yes, she's incredible. And also, um, we clearly share genetics because that's probably if the roles were reversed and I was the older sibling, is probably what I would do. In fact, I think I do it to my two year old now sometimes I'm telling you, um, but but the only thing I knew, And this is the funny. This is the funny thing about the story. My sister loves country music now, but at the time she despised country music because she was young and it wasn't cool yet. Um, she had like life size posters of L L Cool J and Boys two Men on the wall, so country wasn't her thing. So she's kicking my seat, trying to ruin my front seat experience. So I'm cranking the local. We had one local country music station. At the time, I'm cranking it just to ruin her back seat experience, you know. And uh and one day, Johnny's daddy was taking him fishing, and I was like, sounds interesting. And by the end of it, I'm like an eight year old crying, you know, old whatever I was at the time. And uh, I just I went from from loving that song to realizing why I loved that song, which was the storytelling and country music and was done for me at that point. Well, I I came from a long line of country music lovers, both sides of my family, both my parents families loved country music. And I used to go stay with my Grandma Mac my mom Spokes. I'd spend every minute I could at their farm because I loved the farm and I loved animals and horses and cows and chickens. And they had eight track tapes, you know, the old eight track tape player in the living room, and they had Anne Murray and Charlie Pride and they the whole stack, and I would play, you know, play them over and over and over and over and over. For the same reason I love the stories I love I love the way that country music unlike any other genre pulls you. It's a movie, It's an entire movie in like three and a half four minutes, if you just took a country. In fact, I think Dolly did this with her songs. Took the songs and made movies out of, you know, the lyrics of the songs. And I loved the movie and the pictures and the stories that you're sharing with us and bringing everybody into with you. Thank you. So I always say, like if the athlete and me still gets to go to work, it's the part where I enjoy the challenge of fitting, like you said, a movie or or or an entire story inside of three or three and a half minutes. I love that challenge. That's that the athlete of me comes out. When I realized I have a song on my second record called Ticket to l A, which you know, it wasn't a radio single, but I knew when we came up with the idea for the song that it was impossible to fit in three and a half minutes. That's what made me want to write it, and we did it. I love that challenge because I think, you know, there's a there's a skill set that sets you apart in that if you can take what would have been, you know, a two week read if it was a book, or a two hour watch if it was a movie, and put it all in three minutes, that's that That gets my that gets my juices flowing. So is there anything you want your listeners my listeners are listeners to know about this album more anya of the singles, like, is there anything that stands out to you that you want to share? You know? I think that the where I'm at right now, the the interesting thing for me is that I'm having to teach myself to write about more than just what I'm experiencing in my current life. Up until this point, up until this record, I've just written what I was going through because that's the easiest way to be authentic. You know, you're feeling it right now, it bleeds onto the page. UM. And No, I don't think any human emotion is unique. We all have our different versions of them, but that everybody can relate if you're just being honest, you know. I try to write songs where people go like, yeah, I've been there, I feel that I know that. Um. And this time I'm married with two beautiful babies, and you know, the breakup song is not I can. I can draw from past experience, but that that wouldn't You'd have basically a lullabys record or a love song record if I just wrote what I'm feeling right now. And so the fun challenge was to I like that idea, a lullabys record like that Brett young sings your children to sleep. It sounds creepy when you say it, like, no, no, no, it doesn't. I have my oldest is older than you, um, not a biological child and adopted child. But my youngest is fibe. So I'm still trying to come up with the lullabies every night. Um, I just ordered Wow Christian praise songs, you know the Wow albums that came out. I just ordered a bunch of those CDs to put in the bows to put next to his bed at night, because I'm running out of lullabies here, I I. It does, It actually does, except sometimes he gets a little carried away with some of the more tempo you know, when he's bouncing on his bed, but you're dancing on the bed. You're dancing on the bed. Yeah yeah, yeah, But I'm thinking lullabies might not be a bad idea. Just just hold on to that thought. Okay, yeah, I won't. I won't completely abandon it quite yet. And here's here's something I wanted to say, going back to an earlier comment, Um, none of your stories are my stories. When I listened to your songs, they're not my story. I got married the first time when I was young. I knew I wanted kids from the time I was like, from the time my sister was born, I knew I wanted kids. I wanted her to be my kid. I wanted to parent her. I wanted to parent my little brother. It's all I ever really wanted to do. And so listening to your songs, they're not my story at all, and yet you bring me into it and I'm walking the path with you. I think that that's the goal. Is like I said before, I can't be an authentic so I can't dumbed down the story. So it's everybody's story. I have to tell it the way it was for me, but also in a way that you feel like you were there with me, if that makes sense, And that's how it becomes your story and not just my story. And we don't always nail it, you know, Like, um, I have a song on my first record called you Went Here to Kiss Me, And I mean there are other people that are broken up on New Year's Eve, but other than that, I mean it was specific. All the way down to Southwest was charging five dollars for cocktails on that flight. I mean, it's in the song. It was like so specific. I had to tell it exact actually the way it was because I just and that was about my wife. I mean, we broke up on New Year's Eve, were now married with two children. It was I felt it so hard I had to tell it the way that it was. So sometimes you can't do that, but I think the job really is to be authentically you, as honest as possible, but still make people feel like they saw it with you. You know, when you hear a story and you close your eyes, you can see it happen. That's what a song should do. You see the music video by listening to the song. That's how I feel. Years do that when I when I listened to Weekends, I see the clothes on the floor, I see the you know, the baby in the crib. I'm there with you. You're painting the picture beautifully in yourself. I'm so glad you you are very very talented young man. Thank you so much. It's it's it's such a blessing to get to call this a career. I feel lucky every single day. I played an event last night, charity event at the Bluebird Cafe, and uh, every time I walk in there, I can't believe I get to sing there, let alone, you know, make a career out of something that brings me back to that room on a regular basis. And so um, it's it's a blessing. And uh, you know, I kicked myself every once in a while when I forget, you know, anything in life ends up feeling like a job every once in a while. And that's okay, but you gotta snap yourself back into reality and remember how lucky you already get to do something like this for a career. And so I'm very lucky. The ancillary stuff with my job can get to me, you know, the the stuff that you have to do, the business stuff. But thank god I have people like Dianna who's the podcast producer and the social media director and you know, answers my listener letters sometimes and Craig who's my business partner and a team of producers, including my daughter Lenka, who are fabulously talented, incredibly wonderful people. Ryan my engineer, who make sure everything is running and working. So I don't he dumbs it down for me because I am so bad with technology, Like I can't even wear a watch. I'm so bad with technology. Um, but the actual thing that I do on the air or talking to you or you know, doing the podcast, doing my show, I am so incredibly blessed that I get to do this and that God has provided this did every day, every stinking day, I'm more in love with my life than I was the day before. And I feel that from your music when I listen to it that you are in love with the life that God has given you every single day and on day on day. Is when I'm not feeling it. Like I said, I put myself in check and remind myself of all the blessings. I look at my girls, I look at my wife, look at my life, and I've seen pictures of your wife. By the way, Yeah, I'll kick my coverage a little bit there, huh. Yeah, dude, Now you understand why I was willing to go through three breakups and keep fighting figures she is. She is better than me in every single way, and I'm I'm I'm so fortunate, all of it, the whole life. It's but but you're right at the end of the day, when I walk on stage, or when you you know, start an interview or whatever it is that you love the most. For me, it's really songwriting, to be honest. Getting into a room to songwrite. All the rest of the stuff around it is just noise. But you have to do it, and that stuff feels like work. But when I walk on stage, the adrenaline I get back from the people in the audience, I feel like a superhero. I can't believe that I'm that's work. It's incredible. So um And then I go home to my beautiful wife and my beautiful girls, and I'm just I know that I'm that I'm lucky, and I'm blessed and I'm fortunate, and uh, every like you said, every day is better than the last one I've been to. I don't know how many Elton John concerts, and I go because I love seeing him on stage. It's like every ounce of energy that his audience is putting out he is consuming, like he's it's feeding him. And and the guy plays forever. You know, at two hour concert has turned into a four hour show, and you can tell he doesn't want to finish, he doesn't want to go off the stage. Um Billy Joel was the same way every time I would see him in concert. And Andy they say the same thing, that they are so fortunate that that's that's their work. Yeah, I mean I feel the same way. Brett Young is one of country music's rising stars. Well I don't know how much further he could rise, since you know all those number one hits. His music is deeply influenced by the love of his family, his friends, and infused with emotions and kindness. I'm grateful to him for spending time with us today, and to my podcast sponsors who make these heart to heart conversations possible. Hi, it's Delilah. 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Omega x L dot com forward slash love to place your order and to discover all the wonderful goodness of Omega XL. Okay. Favorite venue Do you have a favorite venue you played? Um like large market venue? Um any ven you large, small, doesn't matter. Just favorite venue. Do you have a favorite place that you love? You just love going there and playing the acoustics or the energy or the people or whatever. Uh it might surprise you, and you may have not heard of it, but I would still any day of the week, I would go back, just me and my guitar to the Hotel Cafe in Los Angeles and play for ninety people sitting down, have dinner that came there not knowing who was even coming, because they knew they were going to enjoy it. Um have dinner, listened to six artists they've never heard of, and be Pin Drop Silent. It's the closest thing to the environment at the Bluebird Cafe in Nashville that I've ever seen, and it's where I first started cutting my teeth trying out my songs in front of people. So I love playing arenas, I love playing amphitheaters. I love my band because I love that I finally get to make the live shows sound like the record. But any day of the week, if I could go and play for a hundred Pin Drop Silent fans at the Hotel Cafe, that's where I'd be awesome. Okay, favorite song that you haven't written or recorded. You can't say please don't take the girl. We already talked about it. We already cried through that one. You know what, there's actually there's actually a song that just came out at country radio and I heard a cool story about it. Cody Johnson just recorded it and put it out, but I heard that it's eight years old and uh, publisher over at Big Machine where I I've found it again eight years later, and I love the message. It's called until you Can't, and it's basically about you know that time runs out on all your opportunities in life. You can always hug the people that you that you love until you can't. UM, And it's it's so well written, and it's such a powerful message, and it's brand new. It's it's gonna be a really big song if it's not already. I mean it's it's climbing the charts pretty quick. But I love the message and I love the way it's written and told. Okay, favorite old, old old song like going back Back My parents are their song since they got back together. My parents have a really cool story. They dated in high school, uh, and then ten years later reconnected and UM. Their song has always been a b J. Thomas hooked on a feeling. How sweet is that? I love that song so good. I used to play that on the air all the time. All the time. So, uh, anything else you want to tell our listeners about your tour or how to find you? Yeah, everything from the socials to the website is just Brett Young music, all one word. And uh, we have a single out right now that if you do enjoy a good cry sitting in your driveway after a long day at work, this is the right song for you. But but nonetheless, there's plenty of love songs and a little bit for everybody. Okay, which one? Which one are we going to cry over? Uh? It's called You Didn't. It's a breakup song. It's from the male perspective, basically not wanting her to feel bad about leaving. And I think everybody can relate to at least wishing they could be understanding when their hearts being broken. And that's what this is about. Yeah, I never I never had that experience. I didn't either. I didn't either, I said wishing, Yeah, no, and and and why not? I always say I never let go of anything that didn't have claw marks all over it. No, no, no, no, no, you can can. I can relate to that very much. Well, thank you Brett Young for spending time with us today and for being a pure Brett Young. We will be listening for you, we will be checking out your tour schedule and just wishing you the best. Thank you so much. It was a pleasure. I can't think of a better soundtrack to your Valentine's Day celebration than Brett Young's latest eight song collection, Weekends Look a Little Different These Days. It earned instant praise upon release, with tracks that speak to so many different stages of life and relationships. A stripped down version called Weekends Look a Little Acoustic These Days is also out now. The sweet lyrics of his hit song Lady, which had me sobbing the first time I listened to it, inspired a children's book called Love You Little Lady that would make a darling gift for parents of any little girl. And Brett even had a successful lifestyle brand, Is There Anything This Man Can't Do called Callieville, sold exclusively at Cole's this Valentine's Day. If you have a romantic someone to celebrate with, fantastic good for you. If you don't, don't despair, Do not get sad. If you're not coupled in a relationship, Love is everywhere and can be celebrated in a myriad of ways celebrate it with your family, your community, or you do something for someone else and then wrap up the day doing something kind for yourself because you are deserving of love. You are loved, don't forget that. And Oh exciting news, I'm launching a new daily podcast on Monday, February four, Valentine's Day. It's called Hey It's Delilah. It's a ten of fifteen minute podcast that will drop Monday through Friday and contain some of my favorite radio moments I think are worth bringing more attention to listener calls, Delilah, dilemma's thoughts that I want to share with you. So look for Hey It's Delilah on your podcast platform and subscribe. You can listen in on your way to work, on your way home, or midday, whenever you feel like you need a little emotional hug. Hey It's Delilah will be there for you. Thank you for joining me on Love Someone