Premiere | Mabilene: The Other Side
It’s hard when friendships end. It may be even harder when those friends happen to also be your bandmates. Navigating the difficult waters after the 2016 election highlighted the differences between friends, families and even coworkers. Jenny Weaver (Mabilene) and her band found themselves not being able to manage differences they’d successfully dealt with for years. Like so many others during this time, Mabilene found herself anxious about the future of our country and what harm our collective actions were doing to us as humans. After months of contemplation and the unfortunate end of the band, Mabilene penned the song we are premiering today, “The Other Side.”
She had this to say about the song, “I woke up at 3am and couldn’t get back to sleep. I grabbed my phone and wrote a bunch of lyrics into the notes app. The themes which had been looping in my head for months had crystallized. “The Other Side” is both an invitation and a call to action. I sing this song in the spirit of Woody Guthrie who used songwriting to transform the political into the sing-a-long. In a landscape where it seems women are meant to stay in their lane and sing about their love life while looking young and hot, I’m joining trailblazing friends and (s)heroes who are stepping outside of our fear, standing in values and leading with love.”
Today, we’ve got the exclusive premiere of, “The Other Side,” which happens to be the title track from Mabilene’s upcoming album. You can find the new single on your favorite streaming service on Friday the 29th.
