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Brett Young | Friday Night Takeover

Brett Young | Friday Night Takeover

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From the joys of being a "girl dad" to handling the attention of female fans, Brett Young tackled it all with Rob + Holly during the Friday Night Takeover. The singer is just days away from his new album, '2.0,' arriving everywhere, and he tapped in to talk to the dynamic duo about it all.

Fresh off a busy trip to CMA Fest, Rob +Holly shared how packed Young's album release party at the Nashville Audacy Sound Space was, at full capacity with fans hoping to catch a glimpse of the singer. "The whole time I thought, 'I wonder what Brett's wife thinks about all this with all these girls?'" asks Holly. "Did she ever say anything about all this attention that you'll get from the females?"

"She's as level-headed and realistic as you can be about being the wife to somebody who gets as much attention as we do, being an artist in Country music," smiles Brett. "The one thing that has never changed from me playing little bars and restaurants in LA, cover gigs to now is like, it's not that she's worried anything would ever happen. She doesn't feel like she's like sharing me, but when she picks up on maybe somebody suffers from the delusion that they may have a chance or something may happen, and she sees that, bugs the crap out of her, like she wants to go say something."

After admitting there's a lot of eyerolls from his wife and daughters in his house, Rob asks "was there any eyerolls when she saw the shirtless album cover? Cause that's gonna attract the girls even more, man."

"Yeah, I don't know that that would have been her first choice for the album cover," Young says of the '2.0' art. "But you gotta do what you gotta do."

Shifting to his song, "Drink with You," Young reveals that he wrote the song "a little bit over 10 years ago in 2015," and that it was initially shelved because he felt it was best suited as a single and he was concerned about song overlap on previous albums. "The interesting thing for me is I finally put a song about drinking out almost a year and a half sober, so there's a little irony to that one." He elaborates, "I just wasn't serving me and I have young children, but still, I find it funny that we're talking about drinking and calling our ex, and I'm sober now."

To hear more from Brett about being a "girl dad" and the making of his album 2.0, listen to the full interview above.

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