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August 30, 2019. taylorhanson Instagram has a clip of him playing a song on piano captioned X7 (https://www.instagram.com/p/B1z3sRhhI58)
September 2, 2019. “This Week: Day Three” 1:25 video featuring a clip of “Only Love”
September 5, 2019 “Our Favorite People” newsletter shows song sheet with “Against the World” listed as the song
September 12, 2019 “Announcement coming any day now” newsletter mentioned 2 new song titles – Fearless and Don’t Ever Change
November 28, 2019 “Happy Turkey Day & Songs” FUTY contains video of Annalie and Against the World which will be played on the Wintry Mix tour
November 30, 2019 – Vancouver Setlist contained – Don’t Ever Change, Better Man (Zac solo), Serious Woman (Taylor solo), as well as Battle Cry which is unknown if it is on Against the World or not. Serious Woman lyrics were included in a Hanson Day Gallery photo a couple years back.
Decemeber 3, 2019 – Annalie made its way to the setlist in Vegas. Zac sang a new solo song called “One” Isaac did Missing, Needing, Wanting You which he debuted at BTTI 2018 during his solo set.
December 17, 2019 – Against the World made its debut in the setlist in Royal Oak, MI.
February 14, 2020 – Newsletter “Happy Valentines Day” had a lyric from Only Love “Only love is gonna save us now”
February 2020 – Instagram posts https://www.instagram.com/p/B8urGkxlLF0/ Isaac playing afro fusion refurb goodness
February 2020 – Instagram post https://www.instagram.com/p/B8uCV9gl01c/ “and so we record” guitar parts for Annalie
March 20, 2021 – Instagram post https://www.instagram.com/p/CMoEdcnDZlf/ B3 jam – only love
Taylor laying down final key parts at 3CG studios
Notes from Reporter Interviews:
Kongos are on the album with a clap track (Atlantic City)
One is about us (the band) and challenges we’ve been through but can also be taken in many ways – politics, marriage (Denver)
One is a little about us, a little about the world (Vancouver)
Fearless can’t really be played live – 40 string parts – maybe should have been on String Theory or maybe was inspired by it (Vancouver)
Against the World is about what it says and about what it sounds like (Vancouver)
5/6/2021 – “album” will be released as 7 tracks – 1 each month starting with Annalie and then Don’t Ever Change. Other tracks include: Fearless, Stronger, One, Against the World and Only Love.
