Their debut CD Barlow Girl, brings songs about issues that young woman face today. Drawing from their own journals and journeys, the lyrics speak of things like self-image, loneliness and trusting God. "Everybody is going through the same stuff," says Alyssa. "That's why we love that God has allowed us to use music as a platform to get our ministry out. We have an opportunity to say that we're real, we struggle with these things, we fell here, but God has lifted us up. We have never written a song that said 'We learned this, here you go.' We're still going through this. Our songs still help us!"
Behind the Songs
On My Own: Becca: We based the song around a line that says, How did I manage to mess up one more time? We can all relate to the feeling of, "God we try so hard but it seems like no matter what we do, we're messing up again." Being "good Christian girls" we always felt like we had the "right" answers for everything, and as we have gotten older, we realize the "right" answers are not going to help us. They don't change your heart or make you a better person - our only hope is in God changing our hearts.Pedestal: Lauren: This song touches on how we put celebrities up on pedestals. On the surface, they seem perfect so we look up to them in almost every way. God really showed us that He put that need inside us for Him, because He is the perfect person who will not fall.
Harder Than the First Time: Lauren: During the breaks at a big Christian conference we were attending, we would run back to our hotel, get the guitar and go out out the pool, where we'd work on this song every day. It's a song about our love relationship with God, and how we've fallen in love harder than we did the first time.
You Led Me: Alyssa: While we were on our way back to Nashville to finish the record, we were sitting in the back of the van in prayer of inspiration for a new song. This song was an answered prayer where God delivered us from a dark time in our lives.
Superstar: Lauren: This song is from a time when God began to question our motives as a band. He had asked, "What if I don't want you to be a star? But, if you are and I do allow you into that position are you going to start holding onto that, or can you be content in knowing that I called you to shine like stars, no matter where I put you?"
Clothes: Becca: About a year and a half ago, we had just seen a movie and we were upset about the immodest clothing that actresses wore. We wanted to, in a creative way, not a condemning way, speak up about that issue.
