Slow Down Summer - Commentary

We were actually all in Montana on a writing trip, and it was like

October, I think, and we really didn't know what to write. We were

Kinda half fly-fishin', half tryna write songs, and we were in the

Living room and I noticed that obviously the leaves were changing

And someone said, "I wish summer would slow down." And as a

Songwriter, you hear words like that and you're like, "Maybe we

Should try to write that." And we kinda just related it to an

Emotion that I think a lot of us have been through of just getting

Out of high school or getting out of college, dating somebody, and

Knowin' you got three months to maybe solidify this relationship or

It's not gonna work. And I just hadn't put a song like that out in

A long time that kinda had that tension of love in it, really since

A song called "Marry Me" a couple records ago. And I just love the

Sentiment of the song, I love the arrangement, the production, and

I feel like the music video really helped describe what that emotion

Was. And I just thought it was a really neat first single to this

Record, and it's been really cool seein' the reaction of it as well