Ruthie Collins wears her broken heart on her sleeve with “Hypocrite,” a power ballad that mixes honest lyrics, pedal steel guitar, and a meteoric chorus into its own brand of country music. She wrote the song while living in a 1973 Airstream trailer, parked in the driveway of fellow road warrior Natalie Stovall (Runaway June). “A relationship I really didn’t want to end was clearly slipping away from me, and even though I was trying to pretend I was ok with it all, I was a complete wreck on the inside,” she remembers. “I texted Natalie and asked her if she could come out to the Airstream to finish it with me. I just felt like I needed my best friend; I couldn’t get through it alone.”
Featuring background vocals from Stovall and production from Brandon Hood, “Hypocrite” showcases Ruthie Collins at her best, blurring the lines between country storytelling and pop/rock dynamics.
“‘Hypocrite’ is about that thing we all do: pretend we’re totally ok when the sky is actually falling down all around us,” she explains. “In this song, I’m admitting to the person I’m singing to that I feel like a complete fraud — that not only do I not have it all together, I’m totally still in the thick of all of the hurt. I hope ‘Hypocrite’ lets people know that even though we’re all trying our best to keep it together, there’s so much freedom in owning your emotions — in moving through them instead of blocking them — and that there is true healing and love on the other side.”
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