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I want you to imagine just for a second, releasing a song so massive that it literally, it breaks the ceiling of its own genre. Oh yeah, like totally shatters it. Picture a track that becomes the first ever country song to hit Diamond certification. And for anyone who doesn't track industry plaques, Diamond means 10 million copies sold.

They want acoustic instruments, they want narrative storytelling, and they want unpolished, authentic vocals. Joey Moi came in and essentially turned them into a rock band with polished pop -style tracking. Shouldn't that have killed their career in Nashville before it even started. How did they survive that inevitable backlash.

• Picture a track that becomes the first ever country song to hit Diamond certification
• Global pop superstars will never see in their entire lifetime
• That contradiction basically changed music history
• Which is such a fascinating origin point when you consider the aggressively party -heavy anthems they became famous for just a few years later