Singer/songwriter Scotty McCreery calls his first album in five years, Seasons Change, his most personal yet.
“Making [this album] was totally different than any album I've made before. I was much more in control and had so much more say than I've had before, and was just really making this a personal project,” he told iHeartRadio.
“I wrote every song on it, which was different than any album I've made before and it was just really telling my life stories. If you listen to this record front to back, you're definitely gonna know a lot more about me, my friends back home, my fiancée and just my life in general.”
The title is reflective of where McCreery is in his life right now. “I'm getting married this year, so a lot of awesome changes there. But also, as an artist, I went through a lot of change in the last few years, good and bad, and coming out of it now,” he explained. “I had my first No. 1 single, and a new album that I'm proud of.”
McCreery got engaged last September to his longtime girlfriend Gabi Dugal in the North Carolina mountains. McCreery's newest single, "This Is It," is inspired by the special moment and that day.
“It's a love song for Gabi, and it's just laying out my plan at the time for the engagement,” said McCreery. “And luckily everything did go to plan. We've got a spot up in the mountains that we love to hike to. It's Little Lost Cove Cliff trail up in North Carolina behind Grandfather Mountain, and we stumbled upon it by accident one day.
“And now every time I go back to the mountains, we go to that spot and it's just a beautiful place, and we sit there for it seems like hours. And me and her just talk about life and all the crazy, deep topics you talk about. I knew from the moment that we went there the first time, that'd be where I'd proposed.”
Original article by Nicole Mastrogiannis at iHeartRadio