Jennifer Nettles' 'That Girl' Offers Up a Response to Dolly Parton's 'Jolene'
. The album's title is still under wraps, as is the exact release date (it's said to be sometime in early 2014). However, one thing we do know for sure is that the album's first single is "That Girl," and it's finally hitting the airwaves and iTunes yesterday (Aug. 20). "I wrote that with Butch Walker, he brought the idea over," Nettles said of "That Girl" during an interview with Radio.com late last week in New York. The basic idea of the song, she continued, is of a woman "who had been tricked, bamboozled if you will" by a man she had been seeing, who didn't let on that "he had someone else in the picture. But when she finds that out, she says, 'Oh no, I'm gonna call her and tell her that you're being that guy, because I don't want to be that girl with that stigma.'" Nettle says, though, that as she and Walker were putting the song together, something clicked. "I looked at him [Butch] and said, 'This should really be called "The Ballad of Jolene" in parentheses," referring to the classic Dolly Parton song "Jolene," which is about a woman pleading to another�whose name is Jolene, and whom the narrator sees as glamorous and alluring�to not steal her man away from her. "All we hear from Dolly is her one perspective as the narrator," Nettles explained. "But what if Jolene doesn't want to take her man just because she can? We never know. And I thought that would be so interesting to tell that other part of the story." More including a video of Dolly's song. Radio.com is an official news provider for antiMusic.com.
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