Nashville, TN (October 3, 2013) – Mercury Records recording artist Jennifer Nettles will exclusively premiere the video for her new single “That Girl” at LiveNation.com today at 3pm ET/12pm PT for 24 hours. Nettles plays the lead role in the video which was shot in New York City and directed by Philip Andelman (Beyonce, Jay-Z, Taylor Swift). The video can be viewed at http://bit.ly/ThatGirlJNettles.
Nettles who wrote “That Girl” with fellow Georgian Butch Walker didn’t plan to write the song from the perspective of Dolly Parton’s “Jolene.” The song about a woman who is bamboozled into getting involved with another woman’s man evolved through the writing process and in the end could be called The Ballad of Jolene.
“That Girl” is the title track of Nettles’ highly anticipated debut solo album to be released in early 2014. The album was produced by Rick Rubin and recorded at the famous Shangri-La Studios in Malibu, California.
AUDIO: Jennifer Nettles explains why her new single, “That Girl,” kind of turned into an answer song to Dolly Parton’s “Jolene.”
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DownloadJennifer Nettles (That Girl) 2 OC: …Dolly Parton’s ‘Jolene.’ :42
“Initially, it wasn’t about ‘Jolene.’ It was just about a character. And as the song evolved, I said ‘This is Jolene. This is from her perspective. Wouldn’t that be interesting to hear that, because all we hear is Dolly’s perspective of saying ‘Please don’t take my man,’ which is why then once we realized that, we put that line in there ‘I’m not the scarlet devil/I don’t want to take your man.’ I was so excited to have that connection in that way, and that it happened so organically and wasn’t intentional. That it was a story that is super classic, and yet telling it was its own story and an answer to a super legendary song, which is of course Dolly Parton’s ‘Jolene.’”
