Austin Mahone Talks About His Latest Single ‘Kuntry,’ New Album ‘Lone Star Story’ & More | Billboard News

Austin Mahone talks about his latest single “Kuntry,” why he wanted to step into the country music genre, his new album Lone Star Story, his early start on YouTube, and more!

Austin Mahone:
Where the boys from the South, where we’re known to do it big, ridin’ dirty, on that 281 With that bass in my truck, hear me coming.

Rania Aniftos:
Yeah. Oh my god. That’s exactly what I wanted.

Austin Mahone:
Hey, I’m Austin Mahone and you’re watching Billboard News

Rania Aniftos:
Hi everybody, it’s Rania Aniftos with Billboard News and I’m here with the one and only Austin Mahone.

Raina Aniftos:
Really exciting to speak to you today because you are in your country era.

Rania Aniftos:
Tell me a bit about ‘Lone Star Story’ and kind of the inspiration behind it.

Austin Mahone:
‘Lone Star Story’ is an album that I started at the beginning of the pandemic. So it’s definitely been a long time coming. It didn’t really necessarily take me three years to finish it. But just because like everyone was like, so like, separated, and I wasn’t trying to finish it on Zoom. That’s just kind of weird. Like, my album deserves more than that. So in the meantime, I came out here for a little bit, started, my TikTok, you know, getting my socials going. And then I moved back to Miami. And now it’s finally coming out. So definitely a surreal feeling. But it feels very nice to be going back to Texas and tapping into my roots and kind of showing that side of myself to the rest of the world.

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