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Lauren Jenkins Reckons With Personal Frailty In Video For “No Saint”

One of 2019โ€™s more anticipated releases in the borderless world of country music is the debut offering from Lauren Jenkins called No Saint.

A native of Texas who grew up in the Carolinas, Jenkins has been road-dogging her music since her mid-teens. In 2014, she signed to Big Machine Records, released an EP called The Nashville Sessions a few years later, and since then has been fine-tuning her proper debut.

Today, Jenkins unveiled the video for the albumโ€™s title track, a tune she co-wrote with Ingrid Andress.

โ€œIt took all night and a few bottles of wine, but there was this incredible feeling of closure as the sun came up and the song was finished,โ€ Jenkins said of the writing process. โ€œIย was exhausted from staying up all night writing, crying and laughing, but I also felt a sense of peace because I just said everything I needed to say โ€ฆ I think at the end of the day, we are all a little damaged, a little broken โ€” and we all make mistakes. Iย wroteย โ€˜No Saintโ€™ย to shed light on the darkness and to remind myself that itโ€™s okay that Iโ€™m not perfect.โ€

No Saint will be released on March 15. Watch the video below.