Dan and Shay’s new album “Young” is different from their usual wedding songs.

The lead single, “Say So,” is about suicide prevention.

It honors their late mentor, Ben Vaughn, who died by suicide a year earlier.

Dan Smyers said he was not sure at first if they should write about this subject.

The song came together naturally in the studio.

Smyers said they owed it to Vaughn and to the community.

He also noted that they started work on the song on what would have been Vaughn’s 50th birthday.

He called that more than a coincidence.

The album is about their own lives and is more emotionally open than their past work.

Smyers said men often do not share their feelings well, and he included himself in that.

The duo wrote and threw away an entire album before they chose these 10 tracks.

The final collection has more religious themes, such as the single “Her, The Kids and Jesus.”

Other songs cover grief and love in different ways.

“Dogs in Our Twenties” is about a first pet.

“The Old Guys” features Cody Johnson and gives a love song a new twist.

Smyers said the two singers’ voices meet in the middle.

Mooney said the album has a song for everybody, whatever they are going through.