Lauren Daigle Reveals Heart Behind New Album: ‘God in Every Moment’
By Movieguide® Contributor
After the COVID-19 shutdowns and restrictions, the need for connection with other people and God inspired Lauren Daigle’s new self-titled album.
For example, the idea for the song “These Are The Days” came after her manager told her that she would get to perform her first concert since the pandemic ended.
“And I said, ‘Well, I’m gonna have to have new music in order for that to happen. I gotta get on with it. And I’m gonna write a song specifically for that show. Because it was the first call that we had gotten out of the pandemic,” Daigle told Zane Lowe in an Apple Music interview.
She went on to say, “[W]hat it said to me is ‘You are free. We can do this again. Yeah, you’re going to be on stage. We’re going to be able to sing, like you’re gonna have the audience, like the world is waking back up.’”
Daigle recently posted the video to the upbeat number showing her, along with others, dancing in celebration.
“These are the days we’ve been waiting for!! This one was SO special to film and is an explosion of exactly what I wanted this song to convey – color, joy, and hope! Now go watch it and dance around!” she captioned her Instagram post.
Another song that came out of the pandemic was Daigle’s hit “Thank God I Do.” The singer revealed the mental toll the lockdowns took her.
“That was the two years of… that was ‘Thank God I Do,’ like the panic associated with ‘Did I let this thing become bigger inside of me…that I can’t handle these times? Like I can’t handle this difficulty.’ This thing being on stage, being in front of people, I got so accustomed to that level of interaction where it’s like, you have 15,000 people in front of you,” the Louisiana native said.
Like many during the COVID lockdowns, Daigle faced anxiety and depression, as Movieguide® previously reported:
In an interview with Christian Headlines, she shared: “COVID impacted everybody in multiple ways. But for me, it was the epitome of devastation. I was on this world tour that was going to be the biggest tour of my life at that time. And we got the phone call, and everything had to just be shut down. And I remember going home and thinking, ‘Okay, they said this will last a couple of weeks, this will be good, it’ll be a reset.’ And little did I know the world was going to be sitting for a hot minute. And the pain of that and just such disappointment was really hard to overcome.”
Daigle’s prayer for her most recent album, with an extended version coming out in September, is for miracles and the presence of God for listeners.
“I want …the kindness of God to come in. I want them to feel that in the room, when they walk in, when they hear or when they’re playing it over the speakers, like when they’re listening to the radio when they’re listening to the album CD, whatever. Yeah, just the impartation of God in every moment.” Daigle told Lauree Austin on the K-Love podcast.
The 31-year-old singer cited an example of one such miraculous encounter a fan had that involved her earlier hit “How Can It Be.”
“[T]his girl was going to complete suicide. And she said that as she’s… in the very act, the radio turned on. And it was, I think it was ‘How Can It Be?,” Daigle recalled. “That’s the type of miracles I’m talking about. We’re like, even outside of the natural…God comes and meets people in ways that are, beyond what we would even imagine it. She didn’t even have the radio on; it just turned on. And that, that moment I take with me everywhere.”
