Katie Pruitt Normalizes Love in ‘Loving Her’ [Fresh Vid]

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Katie Pruitt "Loving Her" from the forthcoming album Expectations, out 2/21/20 on Rounder Records

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Directed by: Andy Pollitt

Edited by: Andy Pollitt and Bella Mazzola

Thank you:

Nashville Pride/ Good Neighbor Festivals

Jack Davis

Sam Parker

Everyone who shared their personal story for the making of this video

LYRICS:

If loving her’s a sin I don't wanna go to heaven

No there's nothing else up there I could need

And if I’m sinnin' every day guess I’ll sin all seven

If I can still have her by the end of the week

Ooh ooh

And if loving her's a drug then I wanna be addicted

Why would I get clean when the high's this good

She says I’m the only one who can hit it

And all the other druggies just wish they could

Hey wish they could

You see I used to be ashamed

To write a song that said her name

Cause I was too afraid

Of what they all might say

But if loving her is wrong

And it's not right to write this song

Then I’m still not gonna stop

And you can turn the damn thing off

If loving her's a choice she's all I’m gonna choose

No way you could sway me in another's favor

Some people choose Buddha or Jesus or booze

But her body's my temple and her soul is my savior

Ooh ooh

Chorus

If loving her hurts I’ll keep on hurtin'

If it means staying true to who I am

You may not agree but like me you're learning

That people don't like what they don't understand

No people don't like what they don't understand

And you can shake your head

You can clench your fist

You can judge, hold a grudge

You can just be pissed

You can say it's wrong

You can say a prayer

But while you're doing that I’ll be over there

Loving her

Oh loving her

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Outstanding songsmith Katie Pruitt hit this year’s AmericanaFest at full speed, perhaps getting an extra boost from the announcement that her debut LP Expectations would be released via Rounder Records in February. Hangovers be damned, Pruitt and her band delivered a dynamite set at The High Watt on Sept. 13. A brief break in the show included some background on her song “Loving Her,” a standout in a catalog filled with examples of purposeful boldness. 

She explained that she had an extra-difficult time coming to terms with being a gay woman, since she grew up in a conservative Catholic family. Some of her earliest songs were about girls, but she changed the pronouns to avoid suspicion. As she grew up and moved away from the Atlanta suburbs, she grew increasingly uncomfortable with that decision.

“I realized I wanted to stop hiding that,” she said, “because it’s doing a disservice to everyone who’s going through the same thing as me — just to make myself more comfortable, or just to make other people more comfortable. This song is called ‘Loving Her,’ and it’s about being proud of being different. At the end of the day, we’re all the fucking same, that’s the funny part about it.”

“Loving Her” aims Pruitt's focus toward how much she loves her partner — showing how their relationship is built on the same quality things underlying most relationships. Oct. 11 is National Coming Out Day, which makes it an extra appropriate time for Pruitt to release the music video for the song, directed by Andy Pollitt. There’s a little bit of footage of Pruitt playing the song in someone’s backyard, and there’s a good bit of footage from the Nashville Pride parade and festival.

Pruitt’s current tour doesn’t have any local dates, but expect her to be back in town to celebrate around the release of Expectations, which is set for Feb. 21. Keep an eye on her website for updates and preorder information.

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