Maddie & Tae dropped a new album Love & Light, they stopped by The Bobby Bones Show to talk all about it and life lately.
The title track on the new project actually started as a "sneaky little diss track," which then involved into a happy, upbeat song. Maddie shared their song "Only Jesus Knows" was written about not being able to have boundaries. She has always loved people with no boundaries, but in doing so, she has been let down by a lot of people. Her husband Jonah Font responded to a situation around one of her people letting her down by saying "Only Jesus will love someone like that," and it inspired this particular track. Tae's husband Josh Kerr also wrote some of the songs on this new album, but it is also the first time he produced one of their records. Before Tae was dating Kerr, there was a crossroad moment which she had to choose between him being her boyfriend or him producing their album. Tae fell madly in love with him and wanted him to be her boyfriend, but she didn't want there to be a crossover so he didn't produce any of their albums. Now that they have babies together, she wanted them to make a record together so he finally got the chance to produce Love & Light.
"Kissing Cowboys" is one of the songs off the project that's been making waves. They originally just had the verse to the song and didn't know how it was going to pan out. Their co-writers on it had such a busy schedule, so it took them forever to get back together to finish writing the song. In the writing session they were thinking about their fans and how so many of them are single, so they wanted to write this song as an anthem for those fans. This particular song is one they wish they had as an anthem when they were single girls.
The girls have several songs on their albums that they never get to play live, majority of them are deep cuts so it's likely fans won't ever hear some of them live. They also admitted if a crowd sucks, they won't do an encore. They said it rarely happens, but there have been a handful of times where they didn't come back out. They also noted that encores are so stressful, it's the one time the crowd can tell something is being set up to happen. Maddie's been training for their live shows by running on the treadmill while singing the first 6 songs of their set, it's helped her because those first songs have such high energy.
When they're not on the road, Maddie's husband loves marvel movies. He likes to go see them in theaters, and she used to always go with him, but she's not a fan at all. Now that they have their baby, it's been her "easy out" to not see the movies. Tae admitted that she goes to the movie theater once a week just to get movie popcorn and leave. She has her own refill bucket that she uses, and Maddie confirmed it. She also admitted she's the person who eats beef jerky and pork rinds on planes, so nothing phases her.