Dancin’ In The Country

Album

Tyler Hubbard

Label

EMI Nashville

Genre

Country

Duration

0:00

Entered Chart

Feb 11, 2023

Peak Date

May 27, 2023

Released

Unknown

Recorded

Unknown

At the start of this song, Tyler Hubbard is dancing with a love interest in a club. It's crowded and they've got no room to move, so he suggests throwing her a private dance party out in the country. He tells her they'll have such a great time, she won't want to leave. Hubbard took inspiration for the upbeat song from the dance parties he has with his wife and three children. It became a nightly tradition in the Hubbard household to go in the playroom, turn on the party lights and make some moves as a family. "We've been having these dance parties every night at my house after dinner with our three kids," Hubbard told Apple Music, "so I was sort of in that headspace of 'Let's just make some fun music.'" Hubbard wrote "Dancin' In The Country" with Ross Copperman, Jon Nite and Keith Urban on November 3, 2021, at a Black River studio. "I was fortunate enough to get to write this with Ross Copperman, Jon Nite and Keith Urban, who's just incredible as a writer and a guitarist, and he and Ross Copperman really helped capture the feel and emotion of this song sonically," Hubbard said. "And also me and Jon Nite really tried to dial in the lyrics and they were also very helpful with that." The banjo-laced song is the title track of Hubbard's Dancin' in the Country EP. The project serves a precursor to the Florida Georgia Line member's debut full-length solo album. Hubbard released "Dancin' in the Country" just two weeks before he was due to be the opening act on the fall leg of Keith Urban's Speed of Now World Tour. "I'm excited to play that one out on tour with him," said the singer during a Taste of Country Nights interview, "and who knows, maybe I can convince him to come out and play a guitar solo with me or something." When he was working on this song, Jon Nite wasn't sure if it was being written for Urban or Florida Georgia Line. It was not until later that he found out Hubbard was working on solo material. "The whole time I was laughing because I felt like I was writing for the song," he recalled to Billboard. "Keith would be like, 'This would be great for Tyler' when Tyler was in the bathroom. And then Tyler would be like, 'This would be great for Keith' when Keith was in the bathroom.'" When they finished writing, Urban said to Hubbard, "I think we just wrote your first single," giving clarity about which artist would keep "Dancin' In The Country." The song's music video features former pro football player, actor and TV host Terry Crews (Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Everybody Hates Chris, The Expendables) as the leader of a motorcycle gang who enters a bar and finds himself in a dance-off. "We knew we kind of wanted to kind of go big on this 'Dancin' In The Country' video, and we had a really cool treatment, a cool concept that sort of required an iconic actor, if you will, an iconic face – somebody that would stand out and bring this story to life and really do it justice," said Hubbard. "So, we started a list, me and the team, sort of dream people and at the top of the list was Terry Crews." Terry Crews has featured in several music videos, often in the role of a humorous and energetic character. His other appearances include: 2003 "Down" by Blink-182 2015 "These Walls" by Kendrick Lamar 2017 "Swish Swish" by Katy Perry 2018 "Pressure" by Muse 2018 "Algorithm" by Muse 2019 "Stay High" by Brittany Howard

[Verse 1]
Them neon lights
Look good on you, so good on you
But we ain't got
No room to move, no room to move
We need some space and I know a place
Outside of town where it don't ever close down
No, we never close down

[Pre-Chorus]
Yeah, we can two-step
Put your boots on, baby, we can do that
Girl, cut a little loose, you can move that
Move that, aw, yeah

[Chorus]
I'll take you dancin' in the country, Levi's in them low beams
Spin you in some red dirt, sweep you off of both feet
Out here where the sun sets, Silverado backbeat
You'll never wanna go home and never wanna not be
Dancin' in the country
Dancin' in the country

[Verse 2]
Yeah, it goes left, right, left
You makin' me wanna sway
You makin' me wanna play
Some Alabama and Jackson
Got you 'round my neck
You makin' me wanna stay
You makin' me wanna lay
You down here in the pasture
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[Pre-Chorus]
Yeah, we can two-step
Put your boots on, baby, we can do that
Girl, cut a little loose, you can move that
Move that, aw, yeah

[Chorus]
I'll take you dancin' in the country, Levi's in them low beams
Spin you in some red dirt, sweep you off of both feet
Out here where the sun sets, Silverado backbeat
You'll never wanna go home and never wanna not be
Dancin' in the country
Dancin' in the country
Oh, yeah

[Bridge]
I know you feel that heat
Watermelon summer
Get them Luccheses
Stompin' like the thunder, yeah

[Pre-Chorus]
We can two-step
Put your boots on, baby, we can do that
Girl, cut a little loose, you can move that (Woo)
Move that, aw, yeah
[Chorus]
I'll take you dancin' in the country, Levi's in them low beams
Spin you in some red dirt, sweep you off of both feet (Oh, yeah)
Out here where the sun sets, Silverado backbeat
You'll never wanna go home and never wanna not be
Dancin' in the country (Don't stop, don't stop, keep it movin')
Dancin' in the country (Don't stop, don't stop, keep it movin')
Dancin' in the country (Don't stop, don't stop, keep it movin')
Oh, yeah
Dancin' in the country (Don't stop, don't stop, keep it movin')
Oh, dancin' in the country (Let's go)