If I'm Being Honest Lauren Watkins

• 1 Pulling Weeds 03:19
• 2 Heartbreakaholic 03:07
• 3 Convenient 03:15
• 4 Main Street 03:15
• 5 Daydreams 03:54
• 6 Better Love Next Time 03:03
• 7 Sunshine & Daisies 03:26
• 8 KOA 02:48
• 9 How's Your Mama 'N Them 03:34
• 10 What I Think About You 02:26
• 11 Prayer List 03:02
• 12 Curtains 03:21
• Total Runtime 38:30

Info for If I'm Being Honest

Songstress Lauren Atkins releases her third album, If I’m Being Honest today.

The 12-song collection was produced by Will Bundy and Joey Moi and includes the previously released, “Convenient,” a serendipitous bar run-in with a familiar face, and “Heartbreakaholic,” an honest track about old habits. Coming to terms with her “Daydreams,” changing with age, pretending her relationship is perfect on “Sunshine and Daisies,” and closing with the clever love song “Curtains.” All Country News calls her, “one of country music’s most promising young storytellers.”

“I’ve always thought that if you look past the heartbreak, there’s something so hopeful about a goodbye,” shares Watkins. “It almost always means there’s something better out there that you just can’t see yet. That’s what I wanted ‘Better Love Next Time’ to feel like. There’s a time and a place to be sad and cry about it, but this is the moment to get back in the saddle and do all the fun, healthy things that come with moving on. It genuinely makes me smile every time I sing it, and I hope it does that for people too. I needed this when I was going through breakups, so I just wrote one myself!”

“Better Love Next Time” continues a summer of new music from Watkins, following May’s “Heartbreakaholic” and June’s “Convenient.” The three tracks begin to sketch the world of If I’m Being Honest, a project that finds Watkins sharpening the honest, detail-rich writing that has long set her apart.

The newly announced record follows Watkins’ 2024 debut, The Heartbroken Record, a 17-track introduction to her lyrical truth-telling and old-school instincts, and 2025’s In A Perfect World, a 10-song collection that found the Nashville native evolving as the idea of home came into focus. Where her debut leaned into heartbreak with a rebel edge, In A Perfect World captured a season of growth and self-discovery. On If I’m Being Honest, Watkins will carry both sides forward, pairing the bite of her earliest writing with a more plainspoken look at where life has taken her since.

Lauren Watkins

Lauren Watkins
Drenched in authenticity and rife with barstool charm with an addictive, Tennessee limestone gravel in her voice, Nashville-born and bred songbird Lauren Watkins writes, breathes, and lives country music. The 24-year-old original grew up on the outskirts of Guitar Town, mesmerized by a jukebox rotation of country music, from outlaws like Willie Nelson and Sheryl Crow to chart-toppers Eric Church, Miranda Lambert, and Chris Stapleton. Moving back after four years at Ole Miss, Watkins’ unyielding, turn-on-a-dime lyricism quickly caught the attention of GRAMMY-nominated multi-hyphenate Nicolle Galyon, who signed her to publishing and recording contracts with Songs & Daughters / Big Loud Records almost instantly. Honing in on a sound that’s both reverent of the genre’s roots and in lockstep with where it's headed next, she introduced her take on country music with 17-track, full-length debut The Heartbroken Record, out now, the full-circle companion to previous EP releases Introducing: Lauren Watkins and Introducing: The Heartbreak. Watkins is touring fairs and festivals all summer before opening stadiums for Morgan Wallen internationally, theaters for Maddie & Tae, and dance halls for Corey Kent this fall. She’s previously toured with ERNEST, Conner Smith, Jameson Rodgers, Austin Snell, and Lily Rose.

This album contains no booklet.