“A few,” says the Texan with a smile as big as the Lone Star state itself. “I’m really not confessing anything bad or anything like that. It’s more of a diary than anything. A nice girl is somebody who is always going to be happy, and you’ll never see them any way other than that. You’re not going to see them sad or angry-=---just happy. Nobody is just happy all the time, never. The album covers every range of emotions, happy, sad, and mean---all of that,” she says, adding that she is glad the public is taking to the new music as they have.
Her most recent single, “Best Song Ever*,” has been getting a ton of airplay on both radio as well as the video channels. “It’s such a fun little ditty,” she says of the song. “It’s just a fun, roll-down-the-windows kind of song. I think that’s kind of why it’s worked. We released it in the wintertime, when people usually try to release ballads.
Making the video was a neat experience for Katie, as well. She said this particular video definitely set itself apart from her previous work. “It was so much fun. It was very different. A lot of it was on CGI and green screen, so it was weird having to act and pretend there were things there. It was a learning experience.”
She likens her performance in the video to that of a weather announcer on TV, saying that “When they’re pointing to this or that on the map, they can’t see anything. They obviously know what they are doing, but they can’t see anything when they are pointing, so that was a little bit different."
Over the past five years or so, Armiger has carved out a reputation as being one of the hardest working young ladies in the business today. She says that it has been fun learning as she goes, but if she had the opportunity to do things different, would she?
“Oh, yes,” she says. “First, please have your publicist tell you what an event like the Country Radio Seminar is about before you came” She recalls that before her first major industry function, there wasn’t much time to figure things out.
“I met my publicist that week for the first time. I had never done an interview before, never. To just be thrown into that, and not have had any clue, I wish that I would have at least known a little bit.”
Still, she insists that there’s nothing wrong with on-the-job training. “You don’t learn sitting on the sidelines or sitting with somebody. You learn by just jumping into the interview and doing that. Some are going to be bad, but you learn from it.”
* Editor's Note: Katie's next single, a brand new song, "I Do But Do I" was released shortly after this interview.
And, she’s definitely the better for it these days. For more on Katie, log on to Her Website!
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