Meanwhile we'll head over to the Mid-American Stage with Spencer Crandall.
SPENCER CRANDALL: Iowa State Fair, how we doing?
♪ It's a small town ♪ ♪ What did you expect ♪
Hi.
I'm Spencer Crandall.
I am a country music artist from Denver, Colorado and have been in Nashville, Tennessee for
a few years now.
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My sound is like if Justin timberlake made a country album.
I would say Frankensteins all my influences.
This is the dream right here.
Little country music, the sun is going down.
I take from hip hop, EDM, pop music and obviously country music is kind of where I live so country
storytelling, country instrumentation but pulls no punches and unapologetic about Frankensteining
other genres in there.
I write a lot of love songs.
When love songs don't work out you get breakup songs.
Don't worry.
This is a breakup song that the kids say slapped.
When it comes to song writing I pull from my real life.
I think it's the most interesting, most authentic.
I want to tell my story and what actually happened.
Something translates when it's your story.
So that's real important to me.
♪ Trying to tell my friends ♪
♪ Now I have to call my mom say the trip is off go to Colorado for the weekend ♪
♪ We just bought a couch so what do we do now ♪
♪ Now that we know we can't work this out ♪
♪ Can we go from being in love back to friends or is this I guess I'll see you around ♪
♪ What do we what do we what do we do now ♪
♪ If I see you out sometime can I come say hi or do I walk by ♪
♪ Can I send a birthday text ♪
♪ Which one of us goes and what do we what do we what do we do now ♪
♪ Now that we know we can't work this out ♪
I wrote "Things I Can't Say" with my buddy Josh and Julie, and Julie is featured on the
song.
We wanted to tell this story because everybody's been here.
I'm thinking the words I love you.
But I don't want to scare this person away because this feels really, really early.
So what are the things I can and can't say and we wrote the whole chorus, these are the
things I can't say.
I love you.
I want to be with you.
So another song that really changed my life, I put it on TikTok, "Hey, check out this song,"
and a few million streams later here we are and it's been an incredible ride
♪ See us in a ranch house with a pine ♪ ♪ A couple kids with your baby blues ♪
♪ But I love you is on the tip of my tongue and I want you to want me to be the one ♪
♪ And I almost tell you every night when we're getting off Face Time ♪
The Iowa State Fair is massive.
I had no idea how big it was.
We were just driving by seeing horses and agricultural set-ups.
It's pretty impressive.
♪ You know I want to babe I'll add it to the list of things I can't say ♪
Iowa State Fair, how we feeling?
[Cheers and Applause]