Shaboozey recently joined Rob + Holly for the Friday Night Takeover, diving into some "Good News" with the duo, unpacking his sense of style, and giving us a look into the making of his massive hit, "A Bar Song (Tipsy)."
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"I can write a whole song in my head. Not a whole song, but I'll have the idea, which is to me the most important part," Shaboozey shares. "For like two weeks prior to that I was already kind of walking around thinking about, 'man, I wanna take a 2000 song and turn it into a Country song.' I was playing around with just different ideas, maybe 'In The Club' 50 Cent, who knows, I don't know I had a like a Petey Pablo song in my head. I had so many different songs in my head, like maybe there was a T-Pain song in there, 'Buy U a Drank,' maybe, right?"
While making tweaks to his album, Shaboozey brought up his idea and began listening to tracks from the era in the studio. "I don't know how 'Tipsy' got brought up and we were like, 'Oh. This is the song. We gotta do this song.'"
After firing off phrases around his producer's bedroom, the song came together in just an hour. "We recorded it and it was supposed to be a demo, but it was just like the magic of it. We just did it."
To hear more from Shaboozey about his career, vintage clothing finds, and more, listen to the full conversation with Rob + Holly above.