Mickey Guyton's New Song 'Black Like Me': Listen
has released “Black Like Me,” an intimate new piano ballad that chronicles her journey of navigating American life, and the country music industry, as a black woman.
Guyton co-wrote the song with co-producer Nathan Chapman, Emma Davidson-Dillon, and Fraser Churchill. The song’s plaintive chorus puts a fine point on racial inequality in the United States: “It’s a hard life on easy street/just white painted picket fences far as you can see,” Guyton sings. “If you think we live in the land of the free/you should try to be black like me.”after its release. “He put it on my heart to write it.
The 36-year-old Texas native has released a string of singles ahead of her long-awaited debut studio album, which throughout the decade has been delayed by a struggle between Guyton and her record label, Capitol Nashville, over how to present her as an artist. “They ended up messing with my artistry because I was trying to fit into this mold I thought that they wanted,” sheearlier this year. Eventually, she says, “my whole frame of thinking went from me just singing about my relationships to then just singing about being a black woman in country music.”titled “A Conversation on Being African-American in the Nashville Music Industry,” presented by Middle Tennessee State University .
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