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Ginny Owens

Rocketown Records

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Beautiful


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"Oh You call me beautiful, Say You've loved me all along, And You've always held the keys to unlock my soul, But I didn't know, Now I can finally start to live, Take those chances I have missed, Things will be so different, Now that I know You call me beautiful."
Call Me Beautiful - Ginny Owens


Music Quotient

Not too long ago, we got to interview Ginny Owens and find out what she has been up to lately...


MQ: You have a new album out, 'Beautiful' - that's also the name of one of the songs on the album. Can you tell us a little bit about it?

GO: I think one of the things that - I don't know, I think there are a lot of things that I've kind of learned later on in life or come to understand a little bit later on in my life. A huge part of that has been the visual part of the world. Maybe it's because I've been so busy learning other things growing up, but kind of my awareness of how important the visual is. How that what people see is kind of the standard, you know, for everything. What we see in each other, what we see around us, defines what we think. I guess maybe I knew that in theory, but it's only been in the last few years that I've started to experience that and understand what that means. Specifically, just in the last couple of years being in the music business I have really become much more aware of how important the visual is - how stimulated and motivated people are by what they see and how way too important it is how someone appears on the outside. So, I think kind of in becoming even more aware in just a few years of hearing things like, 'Oh, you should fix your hair a different way' or 'You should go get a tan' or 'You should work out'. Just so many things - I thought, 'What in the world?' I don't know. I certainly want people to give me an honest opinion and yet I Ginny Owens and the music business began to realize at that seemed to be far more important than the music on many levels. So, I think 'Call Me Beautiful' for me is a redefining of my standards, and a redefining of where my value comes from. That song ended up being sort of my redefining of what is important. Just kind of saying, 'Who defines me' or 'Who gives me my value' and just realizing that it can not come from the visual standards that the world sets. It can't come from what other people say or think. My confidence can not be placed in how others would define me. It's a very hard thing to try to understand something that I will probably always be grappling with. But definitely I think in the past couple of years I have started to understand the discipline of believing there is something else - someone else's opinion that matters far more.

MQ: Sort of along that same page, do you think there is a message that your music conveys to the youth culture.

GO: I hope so. I hope that it is a message that is not only encouraging but maybe challenges people to think about things they have never considered before. Whether that be considering faith in God or whether it be just even the idea of believing something else about ourselves other than what the world has told us. You know, maybe it's even as simple as that - especially with teenagers - I hope that maybe I can encourage them to think of some things that they haven't thought of.

MQ: How would you describe your music to someone who is not familiar with it?

Ginny Owens describes her music

GO: I grew up listening to a lot of R & B and soul music. When I got to college I listened to lots of folk and acoustic music and even some rock stuff. So, I would say my music is obviously very piano driven but it's 'singer/songwriter' with some R & B ... and soul thrown in for good measure.

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