Makin’ Tracks: Dan + Shay’s ‘I Should Probably…’ Goes Out On a Creative Limb

When Dan + Shay peeked out from a lengthy period of coronavirus-induced self-isolation, the duo turned plenty of heads.
“I Should Probably Go to Bed,” a song they completed after a tour postponement provided weeks of downtime, defies the norms of their core genre. It uses an unusual-for-country chord to bend the melody just before the chorus, it stacks at least 20 — maybe more than 30 — tracks of voices to create a Queen-like harmonic structure, it closes with the bridge