Darryl Worley’s new single “You Still Got It” is a bit less serious than some of his past hits like “I Miss My Friend” and “Have You Forgotten,” and that’s by design.

“The cool thing for me is, it doesn’t have any polarizing political messages,” the singer said in a new interview with Examiner.com. “It’s lighter than I normally do, it has a real summertime feel. It sort of makes you want to go shagging on the boulevard.”

“You Still Got It” is the first single from an upcoming album titled One Time Around. Worley said he avoided any overt political statements with the album; his last major radio release, “Keep the Change,” encountered resistance after some radio programmers felt it attacked President Obama.

“At the end of the day that’s not my job, to decide whether that song should or should not be played on the radio,” he asserted. “My job is to make good music that everybody loves.

“I just want to enjoy this while it lasts, and I want it to be fun for myself and for other people,” Worley added. “I’m tired of defending some opinion I might have. This [new project] is fun, and I can already tell the difference in not having such a heavy subject matter. So I think I made the right decision.”

Worley is enthusiastic about the new album, his first under a new deal with Tenacity Records/Crazytown Records. “It’s just a heavy duty project,” he stated. “There’s never been another time when I could say that everything on this album could be a single, and I’m saying it now.”

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