RaeLynn Revisits Her Teen Years in Video for ‘Funny Girl’ (Exclusive)

RaeLynn appears again at her teenager years within the video for “Funny Girl””I always felt loved and accepted. I just felt like the odd man out sometimes,” the rustic big name tells PEOPLERaeLynn can be hitting the street with Kane Brown this summer season

When RaeLynn appears at her daughter Daisy Rae, she sees herself.

“She’s a spitfire,” the singer-songwriter tells PEOPLE in a contemporary interview. “She’s 2½ and already ruling the house. And I did not expect it to happen this quick, but here we are.”

It’s a slight snapshot of the heavy age that RaeLynn, 30, is recently dwelling.

“They always say you don’t know true love until you have a child,” the “God Made Girls” hitmaker says. “And now that I am a mom, I always wonder, what did I even do with my life beforehand? Right after I had my daughter, nothing else mattered in the world. It all has a different purpose now because it’s all with her in mind.”

RaeLynn says she has additionally beloved staring at her husband Josh Davis excel as a dad. “He’s such a perfect girl dad,” she says. “I’m so glad we had a girl first.”

In flip, the track of RaeLynn has additionally grown and matured and located a unutilized function, because the singer/songwriter says she is continuously fascinated about  educating probably the most courses she appears ahead to educating her modest woman sooner or later. Tug as an example her flow unmarried, “Funny Girl.”

“When you are that girl sitting in the backseat trying to figure out who you are a little bit in your awkward stage, you wonder if this life is possible,” says RaeLynn, who won’t simplest head out on a order of stadium excursion dates with Kane Brown this moment, but additionally embark on her very personal Humorous Lady Excursion 2024 throughout the United States.  “And it truly is, but at the time you don’t really feel that. It’s not that you don’t believe it. It’s just that you don’t know if that it’s ever going to be you.”

Surely, she says she will be able to keep in mind the ones awkward phases in her personal age. 

“I was the life of the party, but I wouldn’t say I was the cutest chick,” recalls RaeLynn. “But I had a lot of style. I was in sixth grade and Anne Hathaway was on the cover of Vogue and she had a cool pixie haircut, and I really wanted that haircut. Well, I get this haircut and I ended up looking like Kate Gosselin! My favorite thing about it is I looked in the mirror and was like, ‘Hell yeah, this is awesome.'”

She laughs on the reminiscence. “I was to an extent popular, but it was because I was just a big talker and I just was always just having fun,” she explains. “You have the quintessential popular girls that are the hot ones. I wasn’t never one of those girls. I always hung out with the weird outcast kids because that’s where I fit in. But we were popular in our own right because we were just the funny ones.”

It’s this tale that not directly leads the way in which within the track video for “Funny Girl,” premiering solely on PEOPLE. 

“[Video director] Acacia Evans and I went backward and forward, and nearest she simply known as me one life and mentioned, ‘Pay attention, I don’t suppose this tune wishes anything however to inform the tale of a humorous woman and to turn the awkwardness of that humorous woman,'” RaeLynn says. “When I see the girl in the video putting in her contacts and having to wear her glasses, that was me. I wear Coke-bottle glasses. I’m negative 5.5 in both eyes. I can’t think without my glasses.”

She says it used to be additionally notable to her to turn that the “funny girls” occasionally is also the awkward ones, however maximum evolve into one thing much more stunning.

“The video shows the pain, but also there’s so much beauty,” RaeLynn explains. “In the video, the main character might be the one wearing the glasses and getting her makeup done, but she is still accepted, and she is still loved. She’s just different. I always felt loved and accepted. I just felt like the odd man out sometimes. When we were doing those performance shots, it felt very full-circle for me because I felt like this is exactly the story.”

She concludes, “That is precisely what I pictured once I wrote this tune.”