{"id":321147,"date":"2025-10-21T12:26:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T12:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/321147\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T12:26:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T12:26:14","slug":"dan-shay-cover-taylor-swifts-back-to-december-listen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/321147\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan + Shay Cover Taylor Swift&#8217;s &#8216;Back to December&#8217;: LISTEN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The duo called the ballad \u201cone of our favorite songs of all time\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/dan-shay\/\" id=\"auto-tag_dan-shay\" data-tag=\"dan-shay\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dan + Shay<\/a> are accepting their Swiftie fate, and dropping a cover of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/speak-now-taylors-version-review-1234783042\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Speak Now<\/a> favorite! Over the weekend, the country duo released their rendition of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/taylor-swift\/\" id=\"auto-tag_taylor-swift\" data-tag=\"taylor-swift\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Taylor Swift<\/a>\u2018s \u201cBack to December,\u201d weeks after sharing a clip of them performing the song during a soundcheck.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cWhat started as an impromptu soundcheck cover of one of our favorite @taylorswift songs turned into the quickest recording-to-release turnaround in our almost 13 year career,\u201d the band <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DP4s0sykfgb\/\">wrote<\/a> in an Instagram post. \u201cHuge thanks to our fans who encouraged us to get in the studio and make a full version, and to everyone on our team who worked like crazy to help us make it happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe pair asked fans for their help in \u201cspreading the word\u201d about the song, sharing that they didn\u2019t have time for a proper rollout, but were very excited to release the recording (which arrived just in time for Swift\u2019s<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/taylor-swift-the-life-of-a-showgirl-album-review-1235439733\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> The Life of a Showgirl <\/a>buzz).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cBack To December + fall weather go together like 2026 + a @danandshay world tour,\u201d joked Dan Smyers in an Instagram comment on Monday, teasing that they may perform the cover on the road.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tEarlier this month, the duo shared a clip of the two of them playing a small snippet of the song, which immediately gained traction from fans. \u201cSuch a great song,\u201d Smyers and Shay Mooney wrote on Instagram at the time. They later posted a video on their way to record the \u201cBack To December\u201d cover, calling it \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DPogILmEeJ0\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">one of our favorite songs of all time<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe new musical offering is the band\u2019s first release since their It\u2019s Officially Christmas double album, which dropped last year. The duo\u2019s last non-holiday record arrived in 2023, Bigger Houses.<\/p>\n<p>\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The duo called the ballad \u201cone of our favorite songs of all time\u201d Dan + Shay are accepting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":321148,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[160798,171,975,3571,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-321147","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-dan-shay","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-music","11":"tag-taylor-swift","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115412152179334827","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}