Maddie & Tae Score Pair of Radio Disney Awards Nods
Favorite Country Artist + Favorite Country Song Nominations for “Fly”
Nashville, TN – With the Country Music Association’s Video of the Year award for the wildly viral, gender-flipping “Girl In A Country Song” and Academy of Country Music nominations for Vocal Duo and New Vocal Duo or Group of the Year, Maddie & Tae are now making an impact on Radio Disney. The Country platinum blonds’ roots-strong, high-powered acoustic sound received two nominations – Favorite Country Artist and Favorite Country Song – for their Top 10, GOLD-certified “Fly.” “We wrote that song so we wouldn’t give up when we were so far away from home and our families,” says mandolin-playing Maddie Marlow. “When you’re young songs really matter, and when the folks voting on the Radio Disney Awards recognize a song like ‘Fly,’ it feels like... well, like we’re not the only ones who needed that song!” “This is awesome,’ gushed hard rhythm guitarist Tae Dye. “Radio Disney is such a special place, with such a special group of listeners... They’re kind of the reason Maddie and I really started writing songs: no one was writing about our lives. So to be nominated for Favorite Country Artist, knowing that’s not really what y’all are about... I can’t tell you what that means to us! ‘Cause we want everyone who listens to us to feel like they can go climb mountains, kick butt and make their dreams come true, too.” With “Shut Up & Fish” scaling the Country charts, the Sugarland, Texan and Ada, Oklahoman have quickly evolved into Country music’s girl-power pair. Like Loretta Lynn, Patty Loveless and the Dixie Chicks before them, Maddie & Tae represent truth-telling young women who are feminine and can more than stand up for themselves. With the 32-million VEVO-viewed, 2014 Nashville Scene National Country Critics Poll Single of the Year “Girl In A Country Song” and the 10 million VEVO-viewed and 2015 NPR Songs We Love “Fly,” Maddie & Tae’s songs culled from their lives have become a reflection of millions of others. “We write what we know and what we’ve lived,” Dye says. “We wrote most of these songs because had to get something off our chests, to remind ourselves dreams are worth believing in, even not to be scared. It still amazes me when people come up and tell us the story of how their life fits in our song... But it’s the best feeling ever.” “And when it’s Radio Disney,” Marlow continues. “All the amazing music from all over the different kinds? Just to be part of that is awesome, but to be singled out as one of their nominees?! I remember being little, and thinking about how I wanted to be a singer from the ‘I Hope You Dance’ video; it would be wild if someone out there hearing us feels the same way.”
