Are you getting pitched a lot of things people think is a Rascal Flatts song?
DeMarcus: It can be good and bad. It’s hit or miss. Sometimes people try to guess where you’re going — and it’s something you’ve already done before, and you don’t really necessarily want to backtrack and do that kind of thing again. And then it can be really good. Somebody will write something that sounds really, really different until we hear it done like we would do it. Most of the new album is so optimistic, and then you get to the song, “Holes.” Rooney: We wanted that little bump in the road for you. That’s one of those songs that was an acoustic demo from this guy, John … DeMarcus: Mayer? LeVox: Yeah, John Mayer? Rooney: It was John White, actually. I know him well. He co-wrote this song [with Gregory Becker]. … He sat at his house and did this acoustic, droning thing in an open guitar tuning and just had this vibe to it that was so unique. I think sometimes we’d rather take the things that are completely unique … that we wouldn’t have necessarily ever have thought of ours
