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The Incredible Story Of The Day That Walker Hayes’ “Fancy Like” Was Written · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. You figure, if you're
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Speaker 1: a songwriter, you can crank out one of the biggest
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Speaker 1: country crossover hits in years. That's pretty good day. But
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Speaker 1: what's most remarkab about Walker Hayes and his crew dreaming
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Speaker 1: up Fancy Like is that they had already crowned that
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Speaker 1: day particularly awesome no matter how their session went, and
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Speaker 1: that may be why the magic happened. Writer Josh Jenkins
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Speaker 1: recounted the top notch Day two Songwriter Universe, saying, we
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Speaker 1: showed up and spent the first hour talking about God, life, heartache,
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Speaker 1: and redemption. To be honest, it was really beautiful. We
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Speaker 1: even ended up praying before we wrote, and I thought,
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Speaker 1: I don't even know if we're going to write a
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Speaker 1: song today, but I don't care because it's powerful in
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Speaker 1: this room. We shared what we were going through in life,
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Speaker 1: where we've been and all that stuff. Then Walker says, like, man,
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Speaker 1: I want something fun. Let's do something fun safe to
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Speaker 1: say success. Fancy Like is out now. That's direct from Hollywood.