Right out of the box, Chris Lane is riding the wave of success with his lead single, âFix,â from his debut album, sitting at the No. 2 spot on the Billboard Country Airplay chart.
âI am so excited, I canât believe it,â Chris tells Nash Country Daily. âItâs so cool to see people showing up night after night and singing their hearts out. For me to be able to hold the microphone out and to let people sing, thatâs a dream. I never imagined that. Itâs so cool.â
Whatâs cool is that after riding high off the success of âFix,â Chris is ready to release his debut album, Girl Problems, on Aug. 5. Noticing a common theme among his many songs on the album, Chris chose the title after careful thought.
âI started listening to the songs back and looking at the song titles,â says Chris. âI have one song thatâs like my party anthem song, itâs called âSaturday Night,â but the rest of the songs had a very similar theme, it was about all kinds of girl problems. I thought, âWell, Iâm going to get some funny questions naming it this but it seems perfect. So I was inviting that in.â
Invitation accepted. I ask the obvious question: Are you currently having girl problems? âLuckily, well I shouldnât say luckily, but Iâm not having good girl problems, Iâm not having bad girl problems, I guess I just have no girl problems,â Chris obliges. âIâm single and Iâm not necessarily looking at this point. Iâm just having fun on the road and really concentrating on my career. I worked so hard to get to this point I just want to keep it going.â
As for the next single that will âkeep it going,â the Texas native is undecided. âWe are gonna wait on âFixâ to see what happens there, but I think itâs going to be a song called âFor Her.â Either that or a song called âLet Me Love You.'â
Either way, we have Girl no problems with Chris Lane.
GET TO KNOW CHRIS LANE
You have a twin brother, Cory, whoâs older?
I am by one minute.
Is it true what they say about twins, you can feel the others pain or that you know what the other is thinking?
I donât necessarily feel his pain, but yes, it is weird how much alike we think. We say the same thing at the same time all the time and that is really weird to me.
Your original love was baseball. What happened there?
Yeah, that was my first love, itâs what I grew up doing my entire life. That was my dream after college was to play professionally. My twin brother he got drafted to go play but decided not to do that. Me, I had too many knee surgeries that nobody was going to waste their money on me. At this point, as bummed out as I was after college that it didnât work out, I am glad that it didnât because I wouldnât be doing this. The Lord always has a way of working things out for the best, thatâs for sure.
Favorite Football Team?
Carolina Panthers. I am a diehard and I mean an embarrassingly diehard Carolina Panthers fan.
Were you devastated you lost the 2016 Superbowl?
I cried. I was that upset. I was very mad.
Favorite Basketball Team?
I donât want to be the band wagon guy, but I love the [Golden State] Warriors because Iâm a big fan of Steph [Curry]. He went to Davidson college right down the road from where I was going âUNC Charlotte. I had four years to see him play. And to see him doing so good âI root for the Warriors. I guess at heart I have to be a Charlotte Bobcats fan, but theyâre not doing too good, nor have they ever been.
Favorite social media outlet â facebook/instagram/snapchat/twitter etc.?
At first it was Instagram and now Iâm all about Snapchat. Last night I hadâI think it was a squirrel and I couldnât stop sending videos of this squirrel because it gave you a funny face and a funny voice at the same time. I was addicted, I couldnât stop it.
You can follow Chris at Iamclane on Snapchat.
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