When Jennifer Nettles sings, she sings with incredible passion and emotion and she says, “The first place that music and story blended was in church for me. One, it was the first place that I heard live music. I mean there was always music in my house. My mom had the radio on a ton, and she was a young mom, and so Top 40 radio was on there a lot. And then my grandparents – they were big into country radio. So country radio was on a lot there. But in terms of being moved in a certain way and feeling how music speaks together with story, that was in church for me.”
Church was the first place Jennifer heard and saw other people sing besides her family, and she says, “It was the first place that I had a context and a reference for watching people sing something about which they felt convicted. And I think that, for me, became really the litmus, to the extent that if I don’t believe it, if I don’t believe in what I’m singing, it’s not going to come off as authentic to a listener, because it’s not authentic to me.”
Jennifer definitely sings her brand new single, “Hey Heartbreak,” about kicking heartbreak to the curb, with conviction.
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Jennifer Nettles – moved by music :53
“The first place that music and story blended was in church for me. One, it was the first place that I heard live music. I mean there was always music in my house. My mom had the radio on a ton, and she was a young mom, and so Top 40 radio was on there a lot. And then my grandparents – they were big into country radio. So country radio was on a lot there. But in terms of being moved in a certain way and feeling how music speaks together with story, that was in church for me. The first time, it was the first place I heard live music, people singing other than my family. And it was the first place that I had a context and a reference for watching people sing something about which they felt convicted. And I think that, for me, became really the litmus, to the extent that if I don’t believe it, if I don’t believe in what I’m singing, it’s not going to come off as authentic to a listener, because it’s not authentic to me.”