Skylar Laine Debuts Original Song – “Settle Down” (VIDEO)!

By On 11/16/2012 · 32 Comments · In Skylar Laine

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Skylar Laine appeared at the Christmas At Graceland lighting ceremony today in Memphis, flipping the switch with several children who are patients at St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital to light up Graceland with holiday cheer. She also performed “White Christmas”, “Blue Christmas”, and “Winter Wonderland” before debuting an original song called “Settle Down” she cowrote with Chris DeStefano (who cowrote Carrie Underwood’s “Good Girl” and Scotty McCreery’s “Better Than That”) and Anne Preven.

“Settle Down” has an early Miranda Lambert vibe going but doesn’t sound much like anything Miranda’s released lately. Skylar sings about seeing everybody from her small town getting married and having kids but feeling like she has to leave town and pursue her dreams for now. But don’t worry, she tells her mama and daddy, one day she’ll want to come back home and “settle down.”

“Settle Down” (ORIGINAL SONG!)

“White Christmas”

“Blue Christmas”

“Winter Wonderland”

Earlier in the day, Skylar sat down at the WREG News3 studios in Memphis for an interview and performance of “White Christmas”. During the interview she discussed her American Idol experience and also talked new music, saying that her album plans were moving slowly but she was working her way to the point of being able to record and release a full record. Skylar is signed with 19 Management, who has connected her to several country hitmakers including Nathan Chapman, Brett James, Luke Laird, Hillary Lindsey, Jeremy Stover, and Chris Tompkins.

Interview

 

Skylar performs “White Christmas”

 

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  • merkureye

    There is no delicate way to put it . . . Skylar’s shouty and flat vocal performance on her original song was wretched.  Hopefully this disaster was caused by the cold weather and will not recur in the future. As far as the song itself, it is decent.

  • songsungblue

    That’s how I feel. There’s something so authentic about her.  The others I feel are deeply meh, but something really true shines in Skylar. 

  • dd999

    I like Skylar’s  new song. I think the lyrics are really good and with a full band behind her and recorded in a studio where just the right sound is produced, I think she has a good song there, and I find with Skylar, she always puts a lot of feeling into her songs, like when she sang “Wind Beneath My Wings” on Idol, JLO was wiping away tears. She certainly has powerful vocals.

  • http://twitter.com/Free_in_march El oh El

    Its my personal favorite. It reminds me of Jackson 5 for some reason.

  • Valarie

    I really like the song. It needs more music behind it than the plunka-plunka guitarist could provide. I give Skyler extra credit for performing with cars and trucks zooming by.

  • http://twitter.com/raya4 raya

    I just watched this for the first time and I think I like the song.  The problem here is that she’s just completely overpowering the one guitarist or whoever behind here.  As a few others have said, if she were performing this on a stage with full instrumentation and etc., the whole thing would sound completely different.  Though Skylar does shout a bit too much for my tastes at times.

  • DB987

    nvm

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