What would you say to young Black women and girls looking to make it in country music? You know, I have been pursuing country music for a very, very long time, and I wasn’t really making any true progress. To be perfectly honest, I was pandering to an audience and just trying to be accepted in a genre that I don’t think was going to ever accept me. And I had to stop that way of thinking and realize that the only way that I can make it in this industry is by holding the door open for other Black women, for other women and people of color and other marginalized people. There’s power in numbers, right? If you look at the country charts right now, it’s almost all men, which is a huge issue for me. I just want to open doors, burn down that “good old boys’” town, and make it more of an inclusive genre, because so many people would love it if they were given the chance to be able to sing it.
For the last three years, I’ve played this song for people, and, you know, some people wouldn’t even call me back. The majority of people who weren’t Black were like, “This is really powerful, but I need to sit with it for a minute.” So it wasn’t like they didn’t appreciate the song, but they were trying to process what it was saying. It wasn’t until we were in a pandemic, seeing the horrible killings of Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor and George Floyd…I think it just caused everybody to stop and have no choice but to face it. I put the song on my Instagram as a way to be like, “Hey, I see you, I know what you’re going through” to the little bit of a following that I had, and it’s just gone from there. It’s insane to me that I had no plan, I had no marketing, anything, and it went from that to me being nominated for a Grammy, and then singing at the Grammys. My mind is blown.
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