Dan Wilson On "White Horse" With Chris Stapleton & More | CMA Awards 2024 - video Dailymotion

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Dan Wilson caught up with Billboard's Tetris Kelly at the CMA Awards 2024.

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00:00At the CMA Awards, hanging out with Dan Wilson. How are you feeling tonight, man?

00:03I'm excited. I'm getting kind of nervous and excited now.

00:06I mean, you got to be really excited. Song of the Year is a big one.

00:09And then for White Horse, that is 10 years old.

00:11So, like, how does that feel to have a song come back around like that a decade later?

00:15A decade later, it was like, you know, eventually if you write a lot of songs,

00:19you kind of say goodbye to a lot of them and say, OK, that's never going to happen.

00:23So when I heard the version, I was like, wait a minute, this is a great, this is a great,

00:27you know, rendition, let's say.

00:32And then when I watched it slowly climb the charts to number one and then be sort of

00:38continue being so huge, it's just sort of a crazy surprise.

00:41And Chris is such an amazing guy and such a talented guy.

00:44So how did that come about? Like, did you guys talk ahead of the time

00:46or did you just kind of see it blow up?

00:48Well, we had we've written a bunch of songs since we wrote White Horse

00:53and various things have happened to those songs.

00:56And I never really asked him about White Horse.

00:58I don't really follow up.

01:00I don't say, hey, you're sleeping on that one song, you know, what's wrong?

01:03Like, come on, that's a hit.

01:04Like, I don't say that.

01:06So, but, yeah, so it actually kind of caught me completely by surprise.

01:10That's so cool.

01:11And you've obviously worked with so many amazingly talented artists.

01:13So when you talk about, like, Taylor Swift or Adele,

01:16and you get to see them do these big, massive tours in Germany, in the Air Store.

01:19How does that feel to see your music go that far on those huge stages?

01:22To be at a gig with tens of thousands of people

01:27and they're all singing along to a song that I co-wrote is unbelievable.

01:30Like, it's super thrilling and it feels like,

01:34it feels like, oh, this is really connecting with people.

01:37Like, something important is happening here.

01:39And honestly, usually my motivations on the day of writing

01:43is just like how to make something sound cooler

01:45or how to make something that doesn't sound like other things, you know?

01:49Like, it's a lot more basic and just artistic.

01:53And then to see that something might connect on a huge level

01:55with a lot of people is so beautiful.

01:58I'm definitely connected with a lot of those Swift songs, let you know that.

02:01And then also, you know, Christmas is around the corner.

02:03So I'm asking everybody,

02:04what's a Christmas song that you love that gets you ready for the season?

02:07Oh, man, I like a whole bunch of Christmas songs.

02:09I really like, I really like some of the super classics,

02:13like Little Town of Bethlehem.

02:14Oh, you're going, okay, getting in there.

02:16The Lutheran stuff.

02:18And I really like Mariah Carey, All I Want for Christmas is You.

02:23I don't know the real title of that one.

02:24That's it.

02:25All I Want for Christmas is You.

02:26Super into that.

02:26Hot 100 number one song.

02:28I love that song.

02:28And also, I don't know, that's really hard to write a song

02:33that breaks into that small list of great Christmas songs.

02:37Well, now you got a job to do.

02:38Oh, shoot.

02:40He's going to come up with a Christmas hit song now.

Dan Wilson On "White Horse" With Chris Stapleton & More | CMA Awards 2024

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