Emily Ann Roberts isn’t holding back with her latest releases. Today, the powerhouse vocalist drops her brand new single “The Fence,” a bold and emotionally charged track that paints a vivid story that hit straight to the heart. The release follows the debut of the official music video for her striking tune, “Scratching Out A Living.”
Sitting down with Country Now, Roberts takes a deep dive into the two songs that, despite their contrasting energies, each carry a powerful message of female empowerment.
Penned by Roberts with Jessi Alexander and Paul Sikes, “The Fence” offers a tender portrayal of a woman who’s faced with the difficult decision of ending her relationship. While she describes him as being the “good man on the porch” who looks perfect on paper, there’s something telling her he’s not the one for her.
Of the intentions behind the song, Roberts shares, “This song takes you right into that place of kind of deciding, am I going to stick it out and see if this is right, or am I going to leave and move on? And it breaks my heart to sing it, but I hope that people can relate to it and it’ll take ’em back to those moments. That is probably my favorite thing about what I get to do is getting to transport people to those moments in their life, whether it be a happy moment, whether it be a sad moment, and it makes you think and it takes you back and it makes you feel something.”
Talk About Your New Single, “The Fence,” and what you hope listeners take away from this story.
So I wrote ‘The Fence’ with Jessi Alexander and Paul Sikes, and it was actually Paul’s idea that he brought into the write that day. And it just absolutely broke my heart as soon as he said it. I have been there in my life where you’re in a relationship with somebody and on paper everything looks perfect, and you think to yourself, this man is going to make an incredible husband, but for whatever reason your heart’s just not in it. And I think that those breakups hurt the absolute worst. It’s easy to break up when you hate somebody. You never want to talk to ’em again. You never want to see ’em again. That’s pretty easy. But when you break up and you know that the other person is a great person and you don’t have anything against them and you wish ’em all the best, but they’re just not the one for you, I think those really, really hurt…I’m just honored that I get to make music that can hopefully make people feel something. And I really think they will when they hear this song.
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