{"id":1318594,"date":"2020-03-06T09:00:56","date_gmt":"2020-03-06T16:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1818815"},"modified":"2020-03-06T09:00:56","modified_gmt":"2020-03-06T16:00:56","slug":"mickey-guyton-tells-cmt-about-what-are-you-gonna-tell-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/mickey-guyton-tells-cmt-about-what-are-you-gonna-tell-her\/","title":{"rendered":"Mickey Guyton Tells CMT About \u201cWhat Are You Gonna Tell Her?\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"byline\"> by <span class=\"author\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/author\/cmtcomstaff\/\" title=\"Posts by CMT.com Staff\" rel=\"author\">CMT.com Staff<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"date\"><br \/>\n11m ago<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/artists\/mickey-guyton\">Mickey Guyton<\/a> is making a statement with her brand new single, \u201cWhat Are You Gonna Tell Her?\u201d During a visit with <em>CMT Hot 20 Countdown<\/em>, she shares the story behind the song, the sisterhood of songwriting, and the experience of singing it for the first time.<\/p>\n<p><em>CMT Hot 20 Countdown<\/em> airs at 9\/8c Saturday and Sunday mornings.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CMT: For those who haven\u2019t had the privilege to hear \u201cWhat Are You Gonna Tell Her\u201d yet, how would you describe this song? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>MG: This song is a call to action. We are all so obviously very much so aware of the problems with the lack of women being played on country radio and just getting played period in country music and getting signed, whether it\u2019s publishers or anything. It\u2019s a really, really hard position to be in. And I\u2019ve been dealing with so many issues as being a woman for so long and I wanted to write about it. <\/p>\n<p>A 15-year-old little girl hit me up on Instagram and she was like, \u201cI\u2019m moving to Nashville I\u2019m gonna go to Belmont and what do I have to look forward to as a country music singer?\u201d I didn\u2019t have anything to tell her. And that\u2019s a big problem. I wanted to write about it. I wrote the song about changing things so our daughters can be whomever they want to be. <\/p>\n<p>As kids, we\u2019re told that we can be whatever we want to be when we grow up. And as women, when we grow up, we realize we can\u2019t be everything that we want to be when we grow up. And it needs to change.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5ZH60hHgims?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5ZH60hHgims?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\t<\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>I imagine these are all things that you sing about, many things you\u2019ve dealt with in real life. Was it difficult putting that in on paper? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Absolutely. When I was writing \u201cWhat Are You Going to Tell Her?\u201d I cried throughout the entire writing session. I cried when I recorded it because it was so true to me. And it\u2019s so true to everyone. And this is everyone\u2019s problem. It\u2019s your problem as much as it is my problem. <\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve got to fix this because I might have a daughter one day. And I don\u2019t want her to go through what I went through. Not everybody\u2019s strong enough to go through what I went through. And that\u2019s why I\u2019ve changed my frame of mind. I want to fight for women. My music is fighting for women. And this song is that. <\/p>\n<p><strong>I\u2019d say in some ways it\u2019s even broader than that because you touch on race morality, sexuality. Why is it important to have this conversation about really any group that\u2019s marginalized? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Just being an African-American woman and not always feeling like my voice should be heard and can be heard, I know what it feels like to be discriminated against. I can\u2019t imagine that that\u2019s any different for someone who is gay or someone who is white, black, whatever. We all go through something like that in our lifetime. <\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve been excluded from a lot of things in my life and I don\u2019t want that to happen to anybody else because it is really, really hard for me. It took a lot of therapy to even get over that and I\u2019m still not over it. So I just want to be the person that can fight for people that can\u2019t necessarily fend for themselves. <\/p>\n<div class=\"photo\" id=\"43938bfb\">\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;img&quot;}\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/03\/Mickey-Guyton-Next-Women-event-1583435775.jpg?quality=0.85&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/03\/Mickey-Guyton-Next-Women-event-1583435775.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=481 481w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/03\/Mickey-Guyton-Next-Women-event-1583435775.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=660 660w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/03\/Mickey-Guyton-Next-Women-event-1583435775.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=768 768w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/03\/Mickey-Guyton-Next-Women-event-1583435775.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=980 980w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/03\/Mickey-Guyton-Next-Women-event-1583435775.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=1200 1200w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/03\/Mickey-Guyton-Next-Women-event-1583435775.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=1500 1500w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/03\/Mickey-Guyton-Next-Women-event-1583435775.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=1800 1800w\" title=\"2019 CMT Next Women Of Country Event\" class=\" js-srcset-img shortcode-image portrait p3x4\" alt><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"photocredit\"> Danielle Del Valle\/Getty Images <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>You said this song is a call to action. What response do you want listeners to get when they hear it? Is it small changes they\u2019re making in their own lives? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Absolutely. When I wrote this song, it\u2019s basically a question. And when you ask, what are you going to tell your daughter? What are you going to tell your son? What are you gonna tell your black son when he\u2019s growing up \u2014 is he going to have the same opportunities as everyone else? That\u2019s probably not the case. So if we\u2019re all asking that question and we don\u2019t have the answers, that means that we all need to work together to find the answers. <\/p>\n<p><strong>And you just debuted this song at Country Radio Seminar. Tell us about that experience. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I knew that there was a lot weighing on me when I walked out there to sing the song. But I realized that I\u2019m seeing the song for every woman. Every woman that was out in that audience has been through exactly what I\u2019ve been through. I know they have. It may be a different cast, but it\u2019s all the same. <\/p>\n<p>I was singing that for them because I know that they can see a little bit of themselves in me. And it was a really, truly beautiful, powerful moment. And when people stood up for me at the end, it was just like I felt like I could stand there and receive it because we were all there in there together.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JqLs34PQ00c?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JqLs34PQ00c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\t<\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Do you have any ideas for making a music video? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yes. I really want it to be polarizing. And I really want it to be directed by a woman because I wrote this song with all women. It was produced by a woman. It was mixed by a woman. I want something that\u2019s cinematic and that really shows the struggles that we go through as women. <\/p>\n<p><strong>You mentioned the songwriters on this song. Talk about the power when you are in that songwriting room because you have a knack for these powerful songs. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With these women, we have a sisterhood that\u2019s kind of unspoken. But we as soon as we get in the room, we\u2019re very comfortable with each other. But what\u2019s also crazy is like every time I\u2019m in the room with them, something is going on in my life that is so what the song needs to be written about that day. \u2026 <\/p>\n<p>I feel so comfortable with them that I\u2019m able to completely let my guard down and be honest. And that\u2019s what songwriting is, is honesty. That\u2019s what country music is, is honesty. I can be honest with these women about exactly how I\u2019m feeling and then we can put those words to paper or our iPhones or Androids. Whatever.<\/p>\n<div class=\"photo\" id=\"f0d87560\">\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;img&quot;}\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/06\/RD1_5798-1560199663.jpg?quality=0.85&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/06\/RD1_5798-1560199663.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=481 481w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/06\/RD1_5798-1560199663.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=660 660w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/06\/RD1_5798-1560199663.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=768 768w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/06\/RD1_5798-1560199663.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=980 980w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/06\/RD1_5798-1560199663.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=1200 1200w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/06\/RD1_5798-1560199663.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=1500 1500w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/06\/RD1_5798-1560199663.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=1800 1800w\" title=\"glaad + Ty Herndon Present The Concert For Love &amp; Acceptance\" class=\" js-srcset-img shortcode-image \" alt><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>I want to ask about the vocal on \u201cWhat Are You Going to Tell Her?\u201d. Is it true it\u2019s the original track from the writing session?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the original track from the writing session. I walked into our session that day just really having a hard time. The beginning of the year is always kind of hard for me because it\u2019s like another year has passed and you\u2019re trying to figure out how to get momentum. But I was also seeing that there is such a lack of women on radio in country music. I was seeing so many women that I care about so much working their butts off to just get a chance. Blowing out their voices, ruining their hair from all of the hairspray in the heat, and not able to eat properly and worried all of the time. <\/p>\n<p>And it\u2019s heartbreaking. It\u2019s really, really heartbreaking to see people that I love just trying to get a shot and not being able to. So when I went in that session, I was upset about that and I was upset about the message that I\u2019d gotten from that 15-year-old girl who wanted some advice on what she needed to do, and I didn\u2019t have anything for her. <\/p>\n<p>So it was literally me just sitting there like, \u201cWhat are we supposed to do?\u201d One of the writers has two daughters and I was like, \u201cVictoria, what are you gonna tell your daughters? What are you gonna tell them?\u201d Then the song just came, just like that. It\u2019s having honest conversations with people that I trust and love. Then we\u2019re able to write really beautiful material. <\/p>\n<p><strong>And that authenticity really comes through on the vocals. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Absolutely. We wrote the song and I was so emotional about it. I didn\u2019t want to sing it that day. I was like, \u201cCan we just come back?\u201d And they\u2019re all like, \u201cNo, you\u2019ve got to sing it now.\u201d I had flown in from California that day. I\u2019d woken up at like 3 a.m. Los Angeles time to be there for this write. So I was exhausted. I was weary. I was upset. And that came through in that song because it was raw, real emotion.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1818815\/mickey-guyton-tells-cmt-about-what-are-you-gonna-tell-her\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by CMT.com Staff 11m ago Mickey Guyton is making a statement with her brand new single, \u201cWhat Are You Gonna Tell Her?\u201d During a visit with CMT Hot 20 Countdown, she shares the story behind the song, the sisterhood of songwriting, and the experience of singing it for the first time. 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