HunterGirl was not having one of her best days.
“You know when you just overthink your whole life in the space of five minutes?” recalls HunterGirl, 25, during an interview with PEOPLE. “That was me.”
Granted, on this particular day a few years ago, the sweet singer from Tennessee had already been pursuing a career in country music in Music City for a long time with little to no success. And while the girl with the ever-present smile began to question the path her life seems to have taken, HunterGirl says she decided to write only one more songs.
“I started thinking, ‘What if this isn’t about me?'” recalls HunterGirl, who started writing songs when she was 9 and moved to Nashville when she was 18.
“If I give up, I will let everyone down. I’m not just letting myself down. I’m letting go of all those people who believed in me since I was a child. I’m letting mom and dad down. It was that exact moment where I said to myself, if I give up on this, so many other people will lose too. And that perspective struck me.”
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HunterGirl went and wrote the chorus of her new single “Ain’t About You” in minutes.
“I called it my 45-minute conversation with Jesus,” HunterGirl says of the emotional writing session. “I just poured everything from my head. Everything was completely unfiltered and I didn’t think. I was really just trying to get everything out.”
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A week later, HunterGirl auditioned for American Idol, and everything changed. In 2022, she placed second on the 20th season of the long-running singing competition show, and has since released songs such as “Redbird,” “Hometown Out of Me” and “Lonely Outta You” while also getting to share the stage with artists such as Luke Bryan, Josh Turner and Luke Combs.
But while her career took off, HunterGirl kept “Ain’t About You” mostly to herself. That is, until the beginning of this year.
“I didn’t show this song to anyone with a record label until six months ago,” HunterGirl explains of the enlightening song she’s working on as a sole writer. “I didn’t show it to anyone. I said, ‘Nobody’s going to hear this song.’ I didn’t even upload it or put it anywhere in the box that you’re supposed to put your songs in.”
But when her label boss overheard her playing the song during a writer’s block in the office, the path to “Ain’t About You” began to develop.
“I just hope that anyone who listens to this song is filled with hope and thinks about life a little differently,” he tells PEOPLE. “I know we all get caught in our heads so many times during the day and night. Just a moment to think, ‘What if what we do shouldn’t be about us, it should be about everyone else?'”
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“Ain’t About You” is now set to hit radio on October 23rd, marking HunterGirl’s official debut radio single.
“Releasing a song is really important to me right now because I want people to know me and know my story,” HunterGirl concludes. “Everyone wants to succeed where they want to so fast. I am truly blessed for that time [for this song] he was the way he was because he was perfect for everything that had happened so far.”
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