Reyna Roberts is getting used to being understood, so it’s no surprise that she’s already secretly wondering if the title of her debut album might strike a chord with some people.
“I want to make sure people know it even though it’s called Bad Girl Bible: Vol. 1I does love God,” Roberts emphasized during an interview with PEOPLE. “This is my art, dedicated to Him, because without Him I wouldn’t have songs. I wouldn’t have talent. I wouldn’t have anything.”
It’s another example of the many dichotomies that make up a raven-haired vixen with a bad-girl vibe who’s only had one serious boyfriend, still doesn’t have a driver’s license, and may have one of the sweetest hearts in the country. music, music.
“I feel like I was able to capture all the elements of me, but also make sure the country element is still there,” says Roberts of Bad Girl Bible: Vol. 1. “You’ve got hip-hop, you’ve got pop, and then you’ve got traces of rock in it, but it doesn’t feel disjointed all over the place. At least I’m doing my best to make sure of that.”
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Certainly, it’s an album that has gone through its own creative twists and turns, with Roberts, 26, challenged to discover for herself the true point of view from which this album should have come.
“I wanted to create this fictional timeline of this character that changes over time,” explains Roberts, who has spent the past few years sharing the stage with artists such as Reba McEntire, Jamey Johnson and Luke Combs. “But by the end of the album, it wasn’t just a character anymore. It was actually me in my life. I stepped into it. And all those stories became real.”
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One of those very real moments comes on “Death of Me,” a haunting song Roberts co-wrote with songwriters AJ Pruis and Liz Rose.
“Literally, we went to her house on the beach in Florida,” Roberts reflects on working with Rose. “I’ve never been to Florida sooner!”
Roberts shows another side of her personality on the intriguing song “Miranda”.
“I feel like that poem i that character encapsulates everything that I want people to see me as—this badass, this outlaw, this person who’s fearless,” Roberts says of the song she wrote with Kendall Brower and David Mescon earlier this year, which ended up being inspired by a certain Miss Miranda Lambert. “I know there are certain lines in country music that we have to be aware of. With ‘Miranda’ I can express my badass outlaw side.”
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And there’s her new single “One Way Street.”
“I wrote it about two years ago,” Roberts explains of the song, which she co-wrote with Natalie Stovall and Aaron Wagner and finished recording at The General Sound Studio.
“I fell in love the most with one of my closest friends. The feelings weren’t reciprocated though. He just wanted to be a good friend. The song became a really cool way to explain the feeling of being stuck and going down a path where it’s not the right path, but you still you go that way hoping that it will be the end you want it to be.”
And her end? What does Roberts want it to look like?
“My goal is to have the kind of love where I’ve been married for 30 years,” she laughs. “I think that’s valuable and that’s what I want. I was always very shy though.”
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