Adam Mac Offers the Line Dance of Summer time with ‘Mud Off Your Boots’ (Unique)theinsiderinsight

Adam Mac doesn’t take into account himself a dancer.

“It’s one in all my largest regrets that I by no means talked my mother into getting me dance lessons rising up,” laughs Mac, 34, in a latest interview with PEOPLE. “Good Lord, I might use them now.”

Granted, the LGBTQ+ nation artist does have some candy strikes.

“My strikes are this visceral sort of physique shaking and uncontrollable sort of motion,” jokes Mac, who just lately introduced his engagement to longtime love Lee Pfund. “I’ve no sort of rhythm apart from what comes from in my soul.” He laughs, including, “I might have actually used that eight-count coaching if I am being trustworthy.”

However, the queen from Kentucky does exhibit a hearty quantity of strikes within the music video for his new addicting single “Mud Off Your Boots,” premiering completely on PEOPLE. 

“We had one dance rehearsal earlier than the music video, and I felt like a fish out of water, in there with all these skilled dancers,” says Mac of people who joined him at “Camp Boogie” within the joyous music video directed by Ford Fairchild and Robby Stevens. “Nevertheless it turned out nicely and I am pleased with myself for pushing myself.”

Mac teased the tune on TikTok again in Might, and since then, “Mud Off Your Boots” has went viral with over 1.3 million views. 

“At first, I assumed I used to be going to only tease it and I’d in all probability should submit a number of movies earlier than anyone ever sees something or earlier than it will get any traction,” remembers Mac. “However then, the primary video I posted is the video that took off. That video was from a efficiency I did at Whiskey Jam right here in Nashville, which was truly my first Whiskey Jam efficiency ever. And so, I simply threw the monitor excessive of it and subsequent factor I do know, my account was going nuts.”

The electrifying efficiency was even shared by Meghan Trainor. 

“She is the precise queen of TikTok,” he raves. “Meghan and I truly know one another from after I first moved to city 12 years in the past. We met via some mutual associates after I was 22 years outdated, and the subsequent factor you understand, she launched ‘All About That Bass’ and turns into a worldwide pop star. I have never talked to her in years. So, after I noticed that she reposted that, it was a blast from my previous. The woman I used to go to events with in West Nashville reposted my video. It was so loopy.”

The rapid love for “Mud Off Your Boots” additionally got here from what Mac refers to a “rabid line dance neighborhood” on-line, all of whom appear awfully desperate to provide you with their very own line dance to the infectious tune.

“It may be an entire factor,” Mac explains with amusing. “I would like everyone to make it their very own. I would like individuals to only take it and add some flare and do issues I might by no means do, as a result of that’s the pleasure that I am getting from all of this. That’s the best way to do it.”

However the finish of the day, Mac says he hopes “Mud Off Your Boots” is a tune that continues to make use of the mere concept of music to unite all.

“It is imagined to be a tune that you just hearken to, and also you simply really feel good,” says Mac of the tune he wrote alongside Sonia Leigh and Jason Mater. “It’s a tune that may take away you from the entire loopy, chaotic s— that is occurring in our world at this time and simply offer you a second to launch and have enjoyable and dance and shake your ass.”

It was Mac that was in all probability shaking his ass just lately when he heard “My Church” hitmaker Maren Morris had come out as bisexual in a recent Instagram post. 

“My coronary heart actually exploded for her,” says Mac, who opened for Morris final 12 months in Chicago. “It made me so completely happy. I imply, she has been the most important ally, and so now for her to be part of the household simply feels so proper. I’m so completely happy for her. I simply hope that she finds every thing in life that she deserves as a result of she’s so unimaginable.”