00:00You have had what a year. I mean, fresh off your debut. How has it felt to, you know, be here at the CMAs?
00:05It feels awesome. I'm just trying to keep up with her.
00:07No.
00:07But it's been a really fun year, and just getting to put out a record and tour a bunch and, you know, see a bunch of people out on the road. It's been awesome.
00:15Yeah, and I mean, making incredible friends along the way.
00:17Exactly. This is the best year right here.
00:19I love you, Coop. Seriously. Like, I have watched your career absolutely explode, and for you to actually have your debut album out now,
00:28which is, is it like 26 songs?
00:31Yeah, just 20. You're selling me a little high, but maybe the next one will be 26.
00:3520 songs. 20 songs. Still a large album for a debut. Like, how did you feel?
00:41Did you just feel like every single one of these has to be on the record? Like, were you convicted with every single one of them?
00:47Yeah. Because, you know, it's a lot of, like, life and family stuff. A lot of stories about what I'm going through.
00:51And then I had to get my just crazy, you know, off-the-wall stuff in there. I had to throw a couple sea shanties on there, as we do.
00:57So, you know, every song has a purpose.
01:00You have to, because every Cooper Allen fan needs something to just throw their hands up to in the middle of the crowd, swing their shirts around.
01:08I don't know if you've ever seen one of his shows.
01:09Swing shirts around?
01:10They are crazy.
01:11Yeah, just dudes.
01:11His shows are crazy.
01:13A lot of shirtless dudes.
01:14Your target demographic, yes.
01:16Okay, Coop, you have dance-offs. You bring people up on stage, and they have dance-offs.
01:20Really? I need to get to one of these shows.
01:23That's when the shirtless dudes usually come out.
01:25There is a reason why Cooper Allen sells thousands, thousands of tickets by himself.
01:32So we're going to need to see, for all of our friends at Billboard, your best dance moves, since you're making people get up on stage and show their dance moves.
01:39We're going to need to see it.
01:40I wasn't prepared for this.
01:41Okay, here we go.
01:42I usually do the worm, but I'm not going to do that.
01:43Okay, no worm. Just give us one.
01:46I usually kind of like a little, like a little, you know, you kind of flat-lay.
01:48Oh, I've seen that one.
01:49You kind of start flying a little bit, and then sort of picks up.
01:52Okay, do we call that the bird?
01:54Yeah, you know, the eagle, really.
01:55The eagle.
01:56We love that.
01:57You have a huge year.
01:58Your beautiful wife, Hallie, whom I love so much.
02:01Hi, baby.
02:02Come talk to us.
02:03Oh, my gosh.
02:04Please.
02:04Hi, sweetheart.
02:05I love you.
02:06I love you so much.
02:07You look beautiful.
02:08So do you.
02:09You look stunning.
02:10How are you?
02:11I mean, how has it been interrupted?
02:12You're the shortest pregnant person you've ever seen, right?
02:14Truly.
02:15Flowing.
02:15Period.
02:16Hal, how are you feeling?
02:17I feel good.
02:18Baby's coming.
02:19In a couple weeks.
02:20Yeah.
02:20A couple weeks?
02:22I know.
02:22Oh, my gosh.
02:23I feel like I just found out yesterday.
02:24Same.
02:25Time flies.
02:26It flew by really fast.
02:26I love that.
02:27I mean, how has it been to be able to, like, grow your family, grow careers together?
02:32Just up, on the up, all of you together.
02:35It's been so much fun.
02:36It's been, I feel like this year was so fast.
02:38Like, it just flew by.
02:40So, pregnancy-wise, it's been great.
02:42And then, he's been great.
02:44So, yeah.
02:44It's been a great year.
02:46So, you guys don't spend a lot of time at home.
02:48I know that.
02:49Because you guys are constantly touring and you're on the road with him most of the time.
02:53So, when you guys do get home and you have time to decorate for Christmas or Thanksgiving,
02:59for Christmas, are you doing it before or after Thanksgiving?
03:02Oh, the tree is up.
03:03The tree is getting up.
03:03Okay.
03:04The tree is getting up.
03:05I figured.
03:05I feel like I could have told.
03:07Yeah.
03:08Not like, that wasn't entirely the plan, but the tree has been up.
03:12He came home and was like, wait, wait, wait.
03:14What happened?
03:15The holiday spirit gets you.
03:16It's October 30th.
03:16What are we doing?
03:17It was, like, Halloween.
03:18And he's like, why is the tree up?
03:20I'm like, oh, my gosh.
03:21You did that.
03:22I expect nothing less.
03:22You can't control when the bug gets you.
03:24I know.
03:25I expect nothing less.
03:26You guys have so much fun tonight, Coop.
03:27Next year, you're going to have a huge nomination.
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