Pamela Hopkins Unleashes Defiant Country Anthem “Me Being Me”

Pamela Hopkins has never been one to play it safe. The Arkansas native, celebrated for her powerhouse vocals and unwavering candor, returns with a thunderous new single that dares anyone to look away. “Me Being Me,” the latest release from her critically acclaimed album Lord Knows I Ain’t No Saint, is more than just a country song, it’s a fiery declaration of identity, a defiant celebration of self, and a heartfelt tribute to one of her earliest songwriting champions.

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The single, already turning heads across the country circuit, is lifted from Hopkins’ Arkansas Country Music Awards-nominated and International Singer Songwriters Association-nominated album, a body of work that brims with grit, guts, and unapologetic truth-telling. And “Me Being Me” may just be the most personal offering yet.

Penned by Nashville hitmakers Vickie McGehee, D. Vincent Williams, and the late Jim Femino, the track tears down the idea of fitting into anyone else’s mold. “If you don’t like what you see / I don’t know what you want me to tell you, darlin’ / That’s just me / Me being me,” Hopkins belts in the chorus, laying bare her message with the kind of vocal authority that demands attention.

But beyond the foot-stomping instrumentation and fearless lyrics lies a song stitched with deep emotional roots. Hopkins first encountered the track in an unlikely setting—a hospital room in Nashville, where Jim Femino was recovering and still championing the music he loved.

“Jim was in the hospital the day we were supposed to meet,” Hopkins shares. “I offered to bring him anything he needed, and we just sat there, talking about music. He pulled out his laptop and played me ‘Me Being Me’ from his hospital bed. I knew right then it was mine.”

Though she initially recorded the song for her debut project, Hopkins waited until now to release it, feeling, at last, that her voice and spirit fully matched the song’s weight.

“This one always hit home for me,” she says. “The title of my album actually comes from a line in this song. Jim passed away before we ever got to co-write, like we planned. But I’m proud to carry a piece of him in this release.”

With its blend of southern sass and heartfelt storytelling, “Me Being Me” exemplifies everything fans have come to expect from Pamela Hopkins unfiltered emotion, raw strength, and a refusal to back down. Whether performing on international stages or for U.S. troops across the globe, from Alaska to Australia, Hopkins continues to blaze a trail defined not by trends, but by truth.

And if you don’t like it? Well, as she puts it, that’s just her. Being her.