Adam Mac is premiering the music video for “Mud Off Your Boots”The tune has a line dance to go along with it, taught at Camp Boogie”My strikes are this visceral form of physique shaking and uncontrollable form of motion,” jokes the nation artist
Adam Mac doesn’t think about himself a dancer.
“It’s considered one of my greatest regrets that I by no means talked my mother into getting me dance lessons rising up,” laughs Mac, 34, in a latest interview with PEOPLE. “Good Lord, I might use them now.”
Granted, the LGBTQ+ nation artist does have some candy strikes.
“My strikes are this visceral form of physique shaking and uncontrollable form of motion,” jokes Mac, who lately introduced his engagement to longtime love Lee Pfund. “I’ve no form of rhythm apart from what comes from in my soul.” He laughs, including, “I might have actually used that eight-count coaching if I am being sincere.”
Adam Mac.
Ford Fairchild
Nonetheless, the queen from Kentucky does exhibit a hearty quantity of strikes within the music video for his new addicting single “Mud Off Your Boots,” premiering completely on PEOPLE.
“We had one dance rehearsal earlier than the music video, and I felt like a fish out of water, in there with all these skilled dancers,” says Mac of people who joined him at “Camp Boogie” within the joyous music video directed by Ford Fairchild and Robby Stevens. “But it surely turned out properly and I am pleased with myself for pushing myself.”
Adam Mac.
Ford Fairchild
Mac teased the tune on TikTok again in Might, and since then, “Mud Off Your Boots” has went viral with over 1.3 million views.
“At first, I assumed I used to be going to only tease it and I’d most likely need to publish just a few movies earlier than anyone ever sees something or earlier than it will get any traction,” remembers Mac. “However then, the primary video I posted is the video that took off. That video was from a efficiency I did at Whiskey Jam right here in Nashville, which was truly my first Whiskey Jam efficiency ever. And so, I simply threw the observe excessive of it and subsequent factor I do know, my account was going nuts.”
The electrifying efficiency was even shared by Meghan Trainor.
“She is the precise queen of TikTok,” he raves. “Meghan and I truly know one another from once I first moved to city 12 years in the past. We met by means of some mutual pals once I was 22 years previous, and the subsequent factor you already know, she launched ‘All About That Bass’ and turns into a worldwide pop star. I have never talked to her in years. So, once I noticed that she reposted that, it was a blast from my previous. The lady I used to go to events with in West Nashville reposted my video. It was so loopy.”
Adam Mac.
Ford Fairchild
The instant love for “Mud Off Your Boots” additionally got here from what Mac refers to a “rabid line dance neighborhood” on-line, all of whom appear awfully desirous to give you their very own line dance to the infectious tune.
“It is going to be a complete factor,” Mac explains with fun. “I need everyone to make it their very own. I need folks to only take it and add some flare and do issues I might by no means do, as a result of that’s the pleasure that I am getting from all of this. That’s the way in which to do it.”
However the finish of the day, Mac says he hopes “Mud Off Your Boots” is a tune that continues to make use of the mere thought of music to unite all.
“It is purported to be a tune that you simply take heed to, and also you simply really feel good,” says Mac of the tune he wrote alongside Sonia Leigh and Jason Mater. “It’s a tune that may take away you from all the loopy, chaotic s— that is happening in our world at the moment and simply provide you with a second to launch and have enjoyable and dance and shake your ass.”
Adam Mac.
Ford Fairchild
It was Mac that was most likely shaking his ass lately when he heard “My Church” hitmaker Maren Morris had come out as bisexual in a recent Instagram post.
“My coronary heart actually exploded for her,” says Mac, who opened for Morris final 12 months in Chicago. “It made me so completely happy. I imply, she has been the most important ally, and so now for her to be part of the household simply feels so proper. I’m so completely happy for her. I simply hope that she finds all the things in life that she deserves as a result of she’s so unbelievable.”
