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\n\tIn the year and a half since Vincent Mason<\/a> scored a breakthrough with \u201cHell Is a Dance Floor,\u201d he has found himself in more than a few conversations concerning country music\u2019s next superstar. The Georgia native has played prime opening slots for Luke Bryan and Miranda Lambert, made his Grand Ole Opry<\/a> debut, and landed a major-label deal with Interscope Records, who last week released Mason\u2019s 14-track debut album, There I Go<\/em>.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cIt\u2019s me kind of letting the dream win,\u201d Mason says of the album. \u201cThis record ended up being a story of me learning to have success, and what it takes to start that \u2014\u00a0this battle between what I\u2019ve known and what I want to do.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tMason, who turns 25 on Monday, first picked up a guitar as a high school student in Roswell, Georgia, and started taking music seriously when the pandemic forced him home from college at Ole Miss and he began writing songs to pass the time. Two years later, he wrote and released \u201cHell Is a Dance Floor.\u201d More than 120 million streams and an RIAA gold certification later, the song is now the cornerstone of Mason\u2019s burgeoning career, and he sees There I Go<\/em> as his story of learning the ropes as he goes.<\/p>\n