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Lauren Daigle Shares Heart Behind Song, ‘New’: ‘I Love That it Brings Joy’

Lauren Daigle Shares Heart Behind Song, ‘New’: ‘I Love That it Brings Joy’

By Movieguide® Contributor

Christian artist Lauren Daigle recently shared the incredible true story that inspired her song, “New.”

“I was writing with this girl — her name is Natalie Hemby,” Daigle said in May. “Love her. She really helped breathe life into this record and helped me understand writing systems and patterns and things that I didn’t know still existed, which was really beautiful, just like writing from the heart in such a pure way.”

“But she had this friend and she came in with the song title. She was like, ‘I have this idea about a song called “New,”‘ and I said, ‘Okay what’s the point?’ And she said there’s this friend that she had back in the day. She was addicted to drugs, left her home, all the things. Her dad would write her all the time and say, ‘You are free to come home whenever. You are free to come home. You are loved you are free to come home whenever you want.’”

So, one day the young woman did return home. And she became a completely different person.

“She went to rehab,” Daigle said. “She got clean, everything, and my friend ended up meeting her years and years later, and she said, ‘Girl…I don’t even know the old you. I just know this new version, but that’s the only version I know.’ And she said, ‘Lauren, to look at my friend and think that that was ever a part of her life is wild.”

“I can’t believe that would be a reality of hers at some point because of how much God has changed her and set her free, and so that was the genesis of the song was that story and then weaving it in, we were like let’s make it something that’s like fun, that people can, you know, in all different walks of life can relate to,” Daigle said. “…It was kind of the idea storytelling element that we brought into it.”

Some of the song’s lyrics read:

Old habits die

When you wanna live

I don’t see the old you

I just see the new

God put you in my life

For such a time as this

I don’t see the old you

I just see the new

Daigle is very proud of the song. She loves the energy and happiness that it brings.

“I love that it brings joy into a scenario of God can really breathe anything that feels old, still, dry, weary, into this into newness of life,” she said.

Last month, Daigle received K-Love Award nominations for the Female Artist of the Year and the Artist of the Year awards. She also performed a song with Ellie Holcomb at the awards.

Movieguide® reported on Daigle on Tuesday:

The singer also shared that many artists strive for success, but having a heart of humility is what true success looks like.

“There is so much pressure on so many different artists and so many people to sustain charts and do this, do that. And the truth of the matter is: humility is the thing that is so rewarding and so fulfilling, and it just…allows you to have longevity in this career and life and [have] joy in it,” she told CBN News.


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