Kane Brown planned to ask Selena Gomez to collaborate on new album | 103.5 WEZL

Kane Brown has a new album High Road out today so he stopped by The Bobby Bones Show to talk about the new project and his life lately.

It’s been two years since Brown released an album, and High Road contains 18 songs. Although he says it’s one of his favorite albums he’s worked on because of all the time that went into it, he still thinks it was a bit rushed. He really likes releasing singles more because he feels his fans want new music faster, instead of waiting and getting it all at once. “The back seat leads” had spent 5 years touring Nashville, but when Brown heard it, he felt like he wrote it. An addition to the new album was his collaboration with Khalid “Rescue”, the album was already supposed to be delivered when the song was written.Body Talk“, Brown would initially ask Selena Gomez to go on the song with him, but when his wife Katelyn heard it, she told him she wanted to kill it and wanted to sing the female part. When Brown wrote “Haunted,” he was in a hotel room that had a safety deposit box and everything in the room felt haunted, so he decided to write a song about being haunted and it turned into a song about depression. He sent it to Jelly Roll, who loved the song and wanted to collaborate with him on it.Brown has another collaboration on the album Brad Paisley. Brown had posted a clip of “Things we quit” on Instagram and fans commented saying they heard Paisley on it, so Brown sent it over to him and Paisley not only cut it but put a solo on it. Lastly, there’s a cover of “Stay” from Sugarland on this new album, Brown shared that it was his mother’s favorite song at the time. He always wanted to sing it and it stuck in his head so he rewrote it for this album.

Brown also talked about some other projects and the stories behind them. with “Like I love country music,” Brown loved it when he first heard it, but after it was produced, he wasn’t a fan. So he sat on that song for 2 years before he re-recorded the demo and fell in love with it a second time, that is when they changed the production on it and it was released. A song that Brown hasn’t released yet is called “Be A Boy” which he thinks should be Song of the Year when it’s finally out and it was meant to be to be on his new album, but he felt not that he did it justice, so it was pulled from the album so far extra vulnerable.

Outside of his new album, Brown will be shooting a new movie with one of his good friends. He hasn’t taken any acting lessons or coaching though, he’s just “let it go”. He also recently sang at the New Year’s Eve show in Nashville and admitted it was a pretty miserable experience. It was freezing outside and he had to perform at random times for over an hour since it was on live TV. He mainly felt bad for the fans because there was no alcohol involved, so it was super cold outside and no one had alcohol. Brown spent some time in Nashville for the holidays where he ran into the food box at a Christmas event. Lunchbox had come on the show and apologized for blowing up Brown’s seat and possibly letting the fans know Brown was there. However, Brown had a different perspective, saying it was all a perfectly normal conversation and that Lunchbox had nothing to apologize for from that meeting.