<p><a href="http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/magazine-feature/7751676/little-big-town-interview-cover-story">Today&#8217;s cover of</a> <strong><em>Billboard </em></strong>features <strong><a title="Little Big Town" href="https://countrymusicontour.com/new-little-big-town-tour-dates/">Little Big Town</a></strong>. Kimberly Schlapman, Phillip Sweet, and Karen Fairchild and Jimi Westbrook open up about how divided they believe our country is, what it means to be a woman in country music, their hit song &#8220;Girl Crush&#8221;, and more.</p>
<p><img class="size-medium wp-image-34365 aligncenter" src="http://www.countrymusicnewsblog.com/wp-content/uploads/From-our-friends-at-Billboard-400x284.jpg" alt="Country Music News from our friends at Billboard!" width="400" height="284" />Fairchild on how our country is divided:</p>
<p><strong>“There’s probably not a house in America that’s not divided right now, disagreeing about things going on in the country,”</strong> she says. <strong>“If you can’t learn to look across the table and go, ‘I love you and I totally disagree with you, but hey, let’s have a glass of wine…’”</strong></p>
<p>On their hit song &#8220;Girl Crush&#8221;:<br />
<strong>“We were secretly hoping people would use their brain power a little better and listen to the whole song, as opposed to just shut it off after they hear this one thing,”</strong> says Sweet. It wasn’t even the allusion to same-sex attraction that had the group concerned ahead of the single’s release: The song is a ballad with a 6/8 time signature. <strong>“Just the sheer tempo was controversial”</strong></p>
<p>Fairchild on being a woman in country music:<br />
<strong>“Being Southern doesn’t mean you’re stupid,”</strong> says Fairchild, who was born in Gary, Ind., but like the rest of her bandmates has spent most of her life below the Mason-Dixon line. <strong>“And being a woman in country music doesn’t mean that you’re simpleminded. You can be a complex, powerful businesswoman &#8212; and there’s a lot of that in this business. We have a lot of role models.”</strong></p>
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