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By Maxim Mower
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Player bonuses of $171,000, $7 billion advertising slots, the chance to call yourself the best NFL team in North America - these are just a few of the things up for grabs this weekend when the Philadelphia Eagle go head-to-head with the reigning champions, the Kansas City Chiefs, in the Super Bowl LIX in New Orleans, Louisiana.
However, for Zach Bryan's loyal fanbase, all that has just been thrown out of the window - because for his listeners, only one thing matters this Sunday, February: that the Eagles win.
The Oklahoma singer-songwriter has taken to Instagram to confirm he'll release another brand new song, ‘Dear Miss’, on Monday, February 10th if his beloved Eagles triumph.
Interestingly, Zach Bryan has also light-heartedly hinted that he might team up with his good buddy, Shane Gillis, for a pop-up show while the duo are in New Orleans this weekend.
Bryan shared, “IF THE BIRDS WIN THE BOWL DEAR MISS IS OUT THE NEXT DAY SEE YALL IN NOLA SHANE GILLIS N ME MIGHT DO A POP UP N GET ROWDY SOMEWHERE LOVE U GUYS...TAUNTING”. Gillis - a fellow Eagles fan - joined Bryan during his Philadelphia show last August for the country star's now-iconic ‘Revival’ finale.
It comes after the ‘High Road’ crooner's decision to drop the long-teased ‘Blue Jean Baby’ in honour of the Philadelphia Eagles’ victory over the Washington Commanders last month.
In tandem with this surprise revelation, Zach Bryan has shared a tantalising new snippet of ‘Dear Miss’, which the ‘Something in the Orange’ crooner first teased over a year ago. On the uptempo clip, Bryan addresses a lover, “She was raised up proper and I was raised up / With a poor working boy's heart / The way the light is beaming on her smiling cheeks this evening / Is the finest of the world's fine art”.
It must be highlighted that, although the Super Bowl is always difficult to predict, the Philadelphia Eagles have undoubtedly travelled to New Orleans as the underdogs, with the Kansas City Chiefs looking to make it three consecutive wins.
Nonetheless, we're hoping that even in the Philadelphia Eagles don't pull off a victory on Sunday, February 9th, Zach Bryan might still treat us to the studio version of ‘Dear Miss’.
It seems Zach Bryan isn't planning on including ‘Blue Jean Baby’ or ‘Dear Miss’ on his forthcoming With Heaven On Top EP, which Bryan confirmed is coming “sooner than not” earlier in the week. Given the fact that both ‘Blue Jean Baby’ and ‘Dear Miss’ have been unreleased fan-favourites for some time now, it appears Bryan is simply deciding to gift listeners these long-awaited tracks as standalone drops.
With Heaven On Top is, however, expected to include more recent demos such as ‘Always Willin‘, ‘Santa Fe’, ‘Skin’, ‘River Road Drive’ and the title-track, with collaborators such as Grumpy, Hannah Lynn Cohen, Keenan O’Meara and Ana Monwah Lei set to feature.
The new EP will serve as a precursor to the country hitmaker's The Great American Bar Scene follow-up, which is believed to be titled Motorbreath. Zach Bryan shared a Matthew McConaughey-voiced clip of the introduction to a new documentary about the creation of the project, which is billed as Bryan's “final major label album”.
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