Maddie and Tae’s third release from their Start Here LP “Shut Up and Fish” was inspired by a fishing trip the duo took when they were 16.
“We were 16,” Dye tells Rolling Stone Country. “This was the first summer that we actually got to hang out a lot. One day we were just really bored: ‘We love to fish, so let’s go fishing.’ We’d been texting these guys, ‘Do you want to go fishing with us?’ We literally thought it was just fishing, because they had the fishing poles, which they didn’t even know how to use, come to find out. So we get there, and they come dressed up in like white v-necks and coral shorts. Just the typical city boy with their Sperry [boat shoes] and stuff. So we’re like, ‘You know we’re going fishing, right?’ … Maddie and I take it very seriously because we wanna catch something. We didn’t just go there to mess around. We didn’t catch anything that day, because all the boys wanted to do was talk and bust a move. . . You’d better do some flirting with the fish so they’ll come and bite my hook.”
