ION INDIE MAGAZINE January 2016, Volume 20 | Page 9

JP: Last night, I posted the video for “Nightingale” to my daughter’s Facebook wall. It’s
kind of different…something about it made me feel like she could connect to it, and
she did. Can you tell me a li le bit about the song and how the video concept came
about?
JC: Well, it should connect with young girls a li le bit. at’s the whole basis of it. Growing
up, you’re raised to think if you’re perfect, and you’re perfectly dressed and you’re perfectly a
princess type…then Prince Charming is going to come over, pick you up and sweep you off
your feet…and live happily ever a er. e whole “fairy tale” thing that we were taught
growing up, teaches us some things that are really, really terrible things to teach. One,
expectations…it teaches us what we should expect from our partner. ose expectations are
unreasonable and unrealistic. It also teaches you to be so consumed with yourself, your
appearance--what you wear and how you speak and how you carry yourself. You’re taught to
act like princesses. Once you do that, you’re gonna be happy forever. Once I got older, I just
kinda realized how demented that was, and how it really sets girls up for disappointment in all
areas, not with just the people they meet, but with themselves. Basically, that is why I wrote
the song about that…about not really believing all the fairy tale hype, but to be realistic. e
video is just a concept of that. It has a lot of hidden things in that video. For instance, our girl,
the bird in the cage and being tied down and being chased, but she’s stuck and can’t go
anywhere. e nal scene is some thing the director didn’t wanna lm. I thought it was a very
powerful video…a very powerful song.
JP: What can a person expect when they go to a Jasmine Cain show?
JC: Really high energy. We’re just a three piece band, so we have to put on a be er show. We
have to put everything into it. We don’t have extra members lling up the stage and we don’t
use any tracks. What comes off of the stage belongs to us and us alone.
JP: You said something a few minutes ago about “looks”. Do you think the mainstream
music industry is more interested in looks and gimmicks or talent and music?
JC: De nitely looks and gimmicks at this point. I think people are ge ing sick of it quickly. I
think eventually it’s gonna go back. e CMAs are a perfect example of things going back. In
Country music it’s been looks and gimmicks all along. en along comes CHRIS
STAPLETON…Chris has been writing songs for the stars that have the looks and gimmicks
for years and now he’s nally ge ing his go. When he got a chance to open his mouth and
sing, everybody was like, “God, who is this person?” is is the real person. is is the person
behind all the looks and gimmicks. is is the person that makes all of their careers possible
with the songs. I think it’s changing.