SHAYLEN - To Tell You The Truth - Nashville Harbor Records & Entertainment

Laying the groundwork of her path into country music with over 100 million collective streams, Shaylen has created a substantial amount of buzz while positioning herself to easily earn the coveted tag as one to watch.

Following recent singles “Let Me Let You” and “Been There Before,” a pairing with Noah Hicks on the very well-received “Second Time Around,” and an invitation to make her Grand Ole Opry debut on Oct. 5, 2024, the genres hottest new riser now begins her next chapter with brand-new single, “To Tell You The Truth.”

Her first release since signing with Nashville Harbor Records & Entertainment, the song co-written by Shaylen, Lindsay Rimes, Conor Matthews, and Seth Ennis carries a true-to-life honesty into the trenches of the heartbroken lyrics, touching the unbalanced emotional facets within a disguise of the stone-cold truth.

Instantly setting a fractured, “I moved on” tone, she floats the tilts of her crisply shined vocals over a breezy waltz-infused vibe that intriguingly flows juxtaposition to the undertone of the lyric, outlining the facade throughout the opening verse by lamenting that if her ex were to walk into the bar that she’s at tonight then she’d dance with a random guy and fake a smile and laugh just to try to enrage jealously.

However, on the back of the line “I’m doing better than I’ve ever been,” she leans past the fleeting lie to strike the chorus with a heartfelt confession that exposes the truth of how she’s really doing despite the brave-faced façade she shows on the outside.

“To tell you the truth I’m going crazy

To tell you the truth I miss you baby

Still got a key under the mat

Still got your picture on my dash

I sleep in your t-shirt, wake up crying

I’m getting pretty damn good at lying

If I’m being honest I still love you

But tell me what good would it do

To tell you the truth”

As the second verse reveals the heartbreak catalyst in that he left her for another girl, Shaylen expertly exposes the reason as to why she’s carrying so much pain in her heartbreak, enhancing then her crying out as she ties the emotional strands together in the bridge by asking, “Why do I still want you every time I wake up?”

“I wanted to convey how it feels when you’re at the most vulnerable stage of a breakup where part of you doesn’t want to tell the person you miss them while the other part wants to risk it all and call them, even though they broke your heart,” Shaylen shares.

(Review Written By: Jeffrey Kurtis/ Artwork c/o  Nashville Harbor Records & Entertainmen)