Dan + Shay Perform ‘How Not To’ on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’

Dan + Shay headed out to the Los Angeles sunshine to perform their new radio single, “How Not To,” on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Wednesday night (Sept. 28).

The country duo brought the energetic audience a stellar full-band rendition of the track that is the follow-up song to their huge romantic hit, “From the Ground Up.” While “How Not To” remains on the topic of following love, it’s all about the blatant familiarity of a love and how being with that significant other becomes almost like second nature to the constant routines of one’s day-to-day life.

While the guys performed on stage, they played their instant grat video of the single, which features a couple dancing in a contemporary manner with one another around a hollow studio. Just as the song describes, their motions within the routine always find their way back to each other and represent the habitual feeling of a relationship.

“How Not To” comes off of Dan + Shay’s sophomore release, Obsessed, and was written by Adam Hambrick, Paul DiGiovanni and Kevin Bard. Although the duo didn’t come up with the song themselves, it still struck them in a way that they knew they had to take it on for their second album.

“We’d written a hundred songs for the album,” the duo’s Dan Smyers recently told SLN. “There was this one song I wasn’t totally sure about. I texted a buddy at like 7:30 in the morning. I was like, ‘Hey man, you got anything awesome? Change my mind. Blow us away.’ He sent me four songs, and ‘How Not To’ was one of them. I was like, ‘We’ve got to record this. Can we record it?’ Luckily, they were all excited about it and they said yes.”

Check out Dan + Shay’s performance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! and be sure to listen for “How Not To” on country radio now.