Кантри хөгжмийн од Рассел Дикерсон цахим сүлжээнд вирус болсон бичлэгээс үүдэлтэйгээр реппер Фетти Уаптай хамтран “BOOTS” синглээ гаргалаа.
Кантри дуучин Рассел Дикерсон өөрийн эхнэрийн нийтэлсэн, реппер Фетти Уапын дуу хоолойг дуурайсан бичлэг 35 сая гаруй үзэлт авсны дараа реппертэй хамтран ажиллах санаа төржээ. Уг бичлэг цахим сүлжээнд хүчтэй тархсаны ачаар тэрээр өмнө нь хэд хэдэн уран бүтээлчид санал болгоод бүтэмжгүй байсан “BOOTS” дуугаа Фетти Уаптай хамтран бүтээх боломж нээгдсэн байна. Дикерсон дууны үйл явцыг хэт төлөвлөхөөс илүүтэйгээр чөлөөт урсгалаар, хөгжилтэй байдлаар бүтээхийг эрхэмлэдэг бөгөөд энэхүү хамтын ажиллагаа нь түүний хувьд санаанд оромгүй амжилт болжээ.
Тэрээр “RUSSELLMANIA TOUR 2026” аялан тоглолтынхоо хүрээнд мэргэжлийн бөхийн шоуны элементүүдийг тайзны засалт болон үзүүлбэртээ ашиглаж байна. Тоглолтын оршил хэсэг болон тайзны эффектүүд нь “WrestleMania”-г санагдуулам байхаар зохион байгуулагдсан бөгөөд тоглолтын туршид өөрийнх нь дүрийг бүтээсэн маскот оролцуулж байгаа аж. Дикерсон энэхүү тоглолтоо кантри хөгжим болон бөхийн спортын дурсамжийг хослуулсан өвөрмөц үзүүлбэр болно гэдгийг онцолсон юм.
Уран бүтээлээс гадна тэрээр зуны амралтаараа Hershey’s брэндтэй хамтран “S’mores” амттан бэлтгэх уламжлалыг сурталчилж байна. Дикерсон амттанг бэлтгэхдээ маршмэллоуг гал дээр түлэлгүйгээр удаан хугацаанд зөөлрүүлж, шоколадтай төгс хослуулахыг илүүд үздэгээ хуваалцжээ. Түүний үзэж буйгаар аливаа зүйлийг яаралгүй, зөв цагт нь гүйцэлдүүлэх нь дуу хөгжим болон амттан бэлтгэх аль алинд нь чухал зарчим юм.
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Russell Dickerson didn’t set out to make a song with Fetty Wap, he was just having a little fun at home.
The country star’s wife posted a video doing an impressively spot-on impression of Fetty Wap’s signature “1738” sound, and the internet did what the internet does best: It ran with it. The video quickly went viral, surpassing 35 million views, and Dickerson suddenly found himself with an opportunity he couldn’t have planned for.
“I didn’t know that it was gonna be like the most viral thing ever,” Dickerson told Men’s Journal in an exclusive interview.
“Me singing Fetty Wap, that’s normal to me, but apparently groundbreaking to the world.”
It was funny. It was unexpected. And, perhaps most importantly, it gave Dickerson an idea.
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He already had a song called “BOOTS” that he’d been working on, and he’d previously pitched it to a few artists without finding the right fit. After the Fetty Wap video took off, however, Dickerson started wondering if the rapper himself might be the answer.
So he asked his followers.
“Do you think Fetty Wap should hop on this song with me?” Dickerson posted, encouraging fans to tag the rapper. Then something that usually only happens in the fantasy world of social media actually happened.
“I posted a teaser of the song and was just like, tag him, tag him, tag him,” Dickerson says. “Our people started talking to each other, and the next thing I knew, I woke up one morning with like a Fetty Wap song in my email. It was insane.”
And just like that, a joke became a collaboration.
Russell Dickerson Is Letting Himself Have More Fun With Music
The story behind “BOOTS” is fitting for Dickerson because, as he explains it, the song itself came together because he and his collaborators weren’t trying to make it into something it wasn’t.
Dickerson wrote the song with country artist Dylan Marlowe, and the two moved quickly. Dickerson estimates they had the song mostly figured out in somewhere around 30 minutes to an hour.
Marlowe even stepped away from the room briefly, only to return and find that the chorus was essentially finished.
“We had the chorus like done pretty much,” Dickerson says. “It was just like the B-double-O-T-S, S-U-N-D-R-E-double-L. We were just vibing on that and just like how fun it was to make this record.”
That word — fun — comes up repeatedly when Dickerson talks about “BOOTS.”
The song blends country with hip-hop, but Dickerson says the genre combination wasn’t the result of some elaborate attempt to reinvent himself. It was simply what happened when he and his collaborators followed an idea they liked.
That’s increasingly how he wants to approach songwriting.
“I feel like a lot of songwriting you can get so in your head on trying to write a good song instead of just like, blah, and just let it happen,” he says.
Dickerson has even developed a philosophy around it.
“I’ll tell [people] in songwriting sessions, ‘Don’t try to overwrite this,'” he says. “If a chorus is super simple and super singing and whatever, catchy, I don’t know, whatever it is, just don’t try to squeeze the magic out because you’re just gonna choke it out.”
It’s an especially appropriate philosophy for a song that ended up with Fetty Wap on it.
Had Dickerson tried too hard to engineer the perfect collaboration from the beginning, “BOOTS” might have ended up sounding very different. Instead, he let the song exist, had some fun with it, and eventually watched a completely unrelated TikTok open the door to the collaboration he actually wanted.
Dickerson is also a longtime Fetty Wap fan, which made the whole thing even more surreal.
“Thank God, because I’m such a bigger fan of Fetty Wap than anybody else we’d send it to,” he says.
Not a bad way for a viral joke to turn out.
RUSSELLMANIA Is Bringing Wrestling Nostalgia to Country Music
That same sense of fun is making its way onto the stage during Dickerson’s RUSSELLMANIA TOUR 2026. The name isn’t just a clever play on his own name. Dickerson has leaned fully into the wrestling concept, promising “absolute mayhem every night.”
The show opens with a wrestling-inspired production complete with video, screens, smoke, and other nods to the spectacle of WrestleMania.
“We made it all like a WrestleMania intro with the video and the screens and the smoke,” Dickerson says.
And because no wrestling-inspired concert would be complete without a larger-than-life version of the star himself, Dickerson even has a mascot.
“We have a mascot that comes out,” he says. “He’s like this jacked tank-top mascot of me.”
The wrestling theme is woven throughout the show, but Dickerson isn’t turning his concert into a wrestling match. It’s still very much a Russell Dickerson concert, just with plenty of nostalgia and spectacle layered on top.
The concept feels particularly timely as wrestling nostalgia continues to find its way back into pop culture, including through a younger generation discovering the trends that millennials have already lived through once.
Dickerson is amused by the resurgence.
“Even from fashion to baggy pants and flatbill hats,” he says. “I’m like, what do you think we’ve been wearing since eighth grade, bro?”
Russell Dickerson on National S’mores Day
Dickerson’s summer plans aren’t limited to music.
In honor of National S’mores Day, Dickerson is partnering with Hershey’s to encourage fans to reconnect around one of summer’s simplest traditions: making s’mores.
The campaign is also asking fans to settle an important question once and for all: Are you Camp Toasty or Camp Gooey?
Dickerson doesn’t hesitate.
“I’m Team Gooey,” he says.
But this isn’t a casual allegiance. Dickerson has a very specific method for achieving the perfect s’more, and it involves patience.
“The longer the waiting, the sweeter the s’more,” he says. “I want to work for that mallow. I want it to sit in there. I want it to really get gooey.”
In fact, Dickerson is firmly against setting the marshmallow on fire.
“I don’t want it to touch the flame. I don’t want it to be on fire. That ruins it to me,” he says.
Instead, he wants the marshmallow slowly cooked until it becomes soft enough to meld with the Hershey’s chocolate.
“I want it whole, mushy all the way through,” he says. “Once it hits that Hershey’s chocolate, I want it to just all just melt together and run down my face.”
It’s a surprisingly passionate position on marshmallow preparation, but Dickerson stands by it. He even compares the process to cooking a good steak: You have to take your time.
That philosophy actually sounds a lot like his approach to songwriting.
Don’t force it. Don’t overthink it. Give it time to become what it’s supposed to be.
Whether that’s a song, a concert, or a s’more, Dickerson seems perfectly comfortable letting the good stuff happen naturally.
