Dan + Shay didn't actually co-write their new song "Lying" with Bill Withers (the late soul legend died at the end of March 2020), but attentive listeners will hear something familiar and attributable to him in the melody.
Dan Smyers and Shay Mooney co-wrote "Lying" with Andy Albert and Jordan Reynolds. But that jazzy piano line throughout the country duo's new song — produced by Smyers — is an interpolation of Withers' classic hit "Lean on Me."
"I don't miss you in my bed / I don't hear you in my head / I don't love you, I'm not cryin' / And I swear, I'm not lyin'," Dan + Shay profess in harmony in the chorus. The verses double down on the message that this song's narrator is all the way over his ex ... but listen a little more and all their bombastic professions might leave you feeling a bit dubious.