Luke Combs is in his easter-egg-hiding era.
Back in July, Luke Combs premiered a new song and accompanying music video for “Back in the Saddle,” which features NASCAR legends Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Richard Petty. The song, which was written by Luke alongside frequent collaborators Jonathan Singleton and The Brothers Hunt, finds the country superstar getting back to doing what he does best: Manufacturing anthemic, high-energy, stadium-filling country songs.
It’s undoubtedly a Luke Combs hit, and it feels like it’s been too long since we’ve seen Luke Combs… well, “Back in the Saddle.” His concept album Fathers & Sons was great and all, but he even admits that it was a project that he did more for himself. With his newest single, he’s getting back to his roots, and something tells me we could be in for an all-time album from the country star.
That something? Oh, it was Luke Combs himself:
“I’ve been spending the last couple of weeks working on what my next record looks like and as it begins to take shape I can honestly say I’ve never felt better about one at this stage. It’s early on but I really do think it could wind up being the best record I’ve ever made.”
The first taste we got of “best record” Luke Combs has ever made is “Back in the Saddle,” and the music video that went with it was stellar. When you get a pair of icons like Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Richard Petty together for a music video, it’s honestly hard to mess up. And it’s actually important to note the appearance of those two legends in the “Back in the Saddle” video, because apparently they distracted us from an easter egg that the country star hid in plain sight.
Thanks to “Vevo Footnotes,” which for those of you who are old enough to remember seems like a modern day version of VH1’s Pop Up Video, we now know that Luke Combs purposefully placed something in the music video for his fans to see. Armed with hindsight, it’s wild that no one seemed to notice what was plastered all over the flag stand that Luke Combs spends much of the video stationed in.
That is the easter egg that Combs pointed out, and he suggests that it could be very important to something else later on down the road:
“Daytona 499. Go back and watch the video and you’ll see what I mean. And one day it will make sense. That’s all I can say for now.”
How did we all miss that?
Some might have read it and thought it was just a throwaway joke. But Luke Combs is here to tell us that “Daytona 499” will “one day make sense.” I went back and scanned through all of the songs that the country artist crowdsourced and none of them were named “Daytona 499.” That was my first guess… and I suppose Combs will keep us all guessing until he actually reveals the meaning of “Daytona 499.”
Feel free to scan through the music video below for clues and let us know what you think:
“Back in the Saddle”
