Det er ikke overraskende at se Tennessee repræsenteret af en country sanger. Tyler er oprindelig fra Alabama men bor nu i country musikkens hovedstad Nashville. Han er en 'up and coming' stjerne med 70 millioner streams, har været på omfattende turneer og har haft sin debut i Grand Ole' Opry. Han arbejdede tidligere som brandmand.

American Song Contest
Tyler deltog i den tredje delfinale i American Song Contest og kvalificerede sig til semifinalerne via juryens stemmer. Han deltog i den anden semifinale, hvorfra han kvalificerede sig til finalen via juryens stemmer.

I finalen blev Tennessee og Tyler Braden sammenlagt nummer 10, efter at blevet nummer ti i tv-seernes afstemning og nummer 2 hos juryen.

Seventeen

We were twenty-two, downed the bottle of wine on a Letterman coat
Sneaking out late every Sunday night with nowhere to go
And I thought I knew everything there was to know
But she showed me how wrong I could be our first night alone
And we were seventeen

We were digging down deep and howling at the moon
Caught somewhere between a little too late and way too soon
And we were seventeen

We were a four dollar pack of Marlboro Reds in a hand-me-down Ford
Spent every last dime we had seeing what there for on the floor would do
And everything we found just left us looking for more
And they said, "Don't worry son, no one knows what it is they're looking for
When you're seventeen"

We were digging down deep and howling at the moon
Caught somewhere between a little too late and way too soon
We were wanting something more but clinging to our roots
You were an angel in a sundress, I was a devil in boots
And we were seventeen
Oh, we were seventeen

I got that letter in the mail on the first of March
Taking me halfway across the country, man, it nearly tore my heart in two
Wondering if what we thought we had could make it that far
Made me say, "I thought that life wasn't supposed to be this hard
When you're seventeen"
Oh, you're seventeen

Hey
Oh, you're seventeen


Opdateret d. 17.5.2022