When Rascal Flatts asked Jonas Brothers about duetting on one of their hits, they passed.
But it was only because they had a better idea.
“We were puttin’ this record together,” Jay Demarcus explains, “and one of the people we reached out to were the Jonas Brothers about doing one of our songs. And they said they were thrilled that we asked, but instead of doing one of our songs, they had written a song recently with [Dan + Shay‘s] Shay Mooney that they wanted to throw in the hat.”
“And I loved the song when I first heard it,” he adds. “It seemed to fit what we do and it’s a really great collaboration.”
“I Dare You” is the only original song on Life is A Highway: Refueled Duets, which finds artists like Jason Aldean, Carly Pearce, Blake Shelton, Jordan Davis, Backstreet Boys and Kelly Clarkson helping recreate the trio’s hits. It arrives June 6.