“And then, that restaurant would bring back the Oreo shake out of retirement, basically in response to the power of the song. “It’s crazy to me that, 20-plus years later, we would have six kids and one in Heaven and I would be singing a song about a restaurant chain that was dear to me and literally saying exactly what I used to order off the menu,” he admits explains. And I guarantee you that I had a Bourbon Street steak, and I know I had an Oreo shake, and I probably did use my dad's credit card that I'd stolen.” “I guarantee you that within the first two weeks of our relationship, we went to an Applebee's. “I had just turned 17 when we met,” remembers the Alabama native. The rest is history.”įeatured on Hayes' newest EP, Country Stuff, the song “Fancy Like” is deeply rooted within Hayes’ own story, as it was in the booths of Applebee’s that his love for his wife Laney began.

“This was, hands down, the most uncalculated, expecting-nothing-in-return move I've ever made in my career,” says Hayes, who opens the new Applebee's ad featuring his song by starting the TikTok dance routine he and daughter Lela made up.

Apple bee commercial dance