How Does Lady A Singer Balance Music and Family? Only By God’s Grace
Movieguide® Contributor
Lady A (formerly Lady Antebellum) artist Hillary Scott sat down with Olympian Shawn Johnson East and her husband Andrew to share how she balances her busy life as a band member, solo artist and mom of three.
“There have definitely been years where we’ve better communicated or not communicated as well with one another in our needs,” Scott said of being a band member of Lady A, “but I would say right now, I mean thankfully our families are our most important priority, and all three of us are in agreement to that. I think the way that that, you know, shows itself might be different and the way that it’s communicated might be different just because we all come from such different backgrounds, but we all agree that the healthier our family is the healthier we will be and the healthier the band will be.”
“So you know sometimes you have to push through and have some hard conversations ‘cause the timing doesn’t always match up for all three, but by the grace of God, it’s been really a sweet season of just being able to say you know here’s what I need, and everyone’s been really flexible to compromise,” she said. “I think that’s one thing that being a part of a band taught me before getting married is just how powerful and important learning how to compromise is because you’re not always going to see it the same.”
As busy parents who often have to spend time away from their kids, the Easts and Scott agree that their children show them when they need them and even communicate that at young ages. So, they try to listen to what their children need and what God wants for their families.
“I think my compass is really feeling like my husband and I are at peace in where we feel God wants us to be as a family,” Scott said, “and the decisions kind of get made out from that.”
After Scott had her eldest child, she and her husband suffered a miscarriage in 2015.
Out of her grief, she wrote “Thy Will.” It’s part of her 2016 faith-based album, Love Remains, which she recorded with her family.
She told GOOD MORNING AMERICA that at the time she was “experiencing everything that comes with a miscarriage. So it was my most raw place that I could’ve ever been when this song truly poured out of me.”
She told the Easts that it was “written from deepest place of pain and grief…but it’s kind of I look around, and it’s everywhere — like things to write about…and I love that process, bringing a story to life, going into a room like this with nothing and walking out with you know a three and a half minute song that sometimes just makes you feel good and sometimes makes you cry, tells a story. It’s one of the best parts of life to me.”
Some of the song’s lyrics read:
I know you’re good
But this don’t feel good right now
And I know you think
Of things I could never think about
It’s hard to count it all joy
Distracted by the noise
Just trying to make sense
Of all your promises
Sometimes I gotta stop
Remember that you’re God
And I am not
So
Thy will be done
Scott previously shared that as an only child who homeschooled for a time, she often felt alone. But she knew she always had a friend in Jesus.
Movieguide® reported:
“I feel like, you know, [as] an only child for 14 years, he was my friend,” Scott said of her relationship with Jesus as a child.
“When I think back on that story, I just am so overwhelmed with gratitude of just how chosen I felt in that moment by Jesus and how I never — whether it was the people around me but specifically his presence through those especially those early years — he was my friend,” she continued…
“I’m just thinking about all these different kind of moments throughout my childhood and just imagining him there because he was,” Scott explained. “I think there was a balm of just feeling nurtured, feeling like I wasn’t alone. That, I think, is what pulls up the emotion in me that could make me cry.”
