New music is here from Chris Young! The Tennessee native dropped two tracks, “Looking For You” and “All Dogs Go To Heaven.” Both songs are from Young’s forthcoming new album.

“Looking For You,” Young’s new single, was inspired by how many relationships — including some Young has been in — really begin.

“This actually just came from a place of, sometimes you’re looking for love and can’t find it,” Young recently explained to Everything Nash and other outlets, during a virtual media event. “And then sometimes you’re like, ‘I give up,’ and it just smacks you in the face like a freight train out of nowhere. And I think a lot of people have been through that before where they just see somebody walk in, even if they weren’t looking for anyone, they just find someone and it’s like, ‘This is perfect.’ And so that was kind of the genesis of the idea of this song.”

Young has already written several songs for his next project, but as soon as he finished “Looking For You,” he, and everyone else on his team, knew it was the perfect first single to introduce his next set of tunes.

“Looking For You’ is the one that everybody would say, ‘That’s the first single,'” Young shares. “I mean, the label, friends, family, everybody. Other writers that I played it for, in one listen, they got to the end of that chorus and they’re like. ‘All right, I get it.’ So that doesn’t mean it’s going to work as well as I want it to. But I just think this is a great song and I want it to be out there and breathe and be the very first thing people get from the new record.”

Young is also releasing “All Dogs Go To Heaven,” inspired by his own five-year-old German Shepherd, Porter, who was a gift to Young by his sister, Dot, in 2017.

“I’m not going to talk too much about him because I already did one of these interviews where I started tearing up and looked like an idiot,” Young says with a laugh. “But I met this dog when he was basically a baked potato size animal and he weighs 115 pounds. So I love this dog. He was a Christmas present from my little sister. He was a surprise. And he is now a 115-pound tank of a German Shepherd. I think just regardless of whether you have a big dog, small dog, whatever pet of any kind, you can kind of get the point of ‘All Dogs Go To Heaven,’ because they’re probably not going to outlive us.

“I think everybody doesn’t want to think about that,” he adds. “But that’s going to be something you’re going to have to deal with at some point. And it’s just the idea of, they’ll be waiting on you when you get up there.”

Both “Looking For You” and “All Dogs Go To Heaven” can be found at ChrisYoungCountry.com.

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