When Sugarland returned from their five-year hiatus to start making music together again, as their first single off their new album explained, a lot of the dynamic and the chemistry between them was “Still the Same.”  But Kristian Bush explains there was one major difference from their previous time working together.  “The biggest significant change is that Jennifer’s a mom now,” he says, “and parenting screws with all your priorities, in the best possible way. So we have those conversations now where we didn’t have those before, you know, at the beginning of all this. Mine are teenagers now. I think mine could actually babysit for hers.”

Jennifer agrees that outside of her role as a mother, which she didn’t have five years ago, everything else between them, and the magic that makes them Sugarland was still there.  “We were very pleased to find, we didn’t know when we first walked back in the room together for the first time to write, we didn’t know, in terms of what that energy and what that flow was going to feel like. And luckily it was very much, especially in terms of the creative language that we have with each other, was very much right there, which inspired ‘Still the Same’.”

From that initial song that summed up who they were as a duo coming back together, they wrote their entire Still the Same album, with the exception of their current single, “Babe,” which was co-written by Taylor Swift and Pat Monahan of Train.

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Kristian Bush – “The biggest significant change is that Jennifer’s a mom now, and parenting screws with all your priorities, in the best possible way. So we have those conversations now where we didn’t have those before, you know, at the beginning of all this. Mine are teenagers now. I think mine could actually babysit for hers.”

Jennifer Nettles – “That’s what we’re hoping.  And then also, too, we were very pleased to find, we didn’t know when we first walked back in the room together for the first time to write, we didn’t know, in terms of what that energy and what that flow was going to feel like. And luckily it was very much, especially in terms of the creative language that we have with each other, was very much right there, which inspired ‘Still the Same’.”