The host of HLN's "Morning Express with Robin Meade" spoke to CNN about her debut country album, "Brand New Day."
"If you listen to the words to 'Dirty Laundry' now," Meade (continued), "It is still really contemporary, even though it's an old song. When I listen to the words, it makes me think of what types of stories have gripped us. The past month or so has been all about this Casey Anthony trial and people wanting justice for a little girl whose life was ended way too soon and looking at the way the trial started and the way she threw her family under the bus and if that's not dirty laundry, I don't know what is.
"And the same with the Anthony Weiner scandal; I (think) we all are attracted -- I don't want to say to dirty laundry per se, but we are attracted to the human condition and what happens to other people. It's like, there are fewer soap operas -- if there are any -- on in the afternoons anymore and so it's almost like these types of stories have become our own soap opera viewing. It's not like we, as viewers, want people to lose; but I think we want to look at stories and go: 'Oh my gosh! I hope things get better for them' or you go 'Thank goodness my family's not that dysfunctional!' or, 'See, I am normal! I knew it!' So I think in many different ways, 'Dirty Laundry' is the perfect song."
The track also features the vocal stylings of a (group) Meade lovingly refers to as the Dirty Laundry Choir.
"Kix Brooks of Brooks and Dunn came in on a day he'd (rather) have been golfing, I'm sure," Meade said. "He did background vocals on the line: 'Kick 'em when they're up, kick 'em when they're down.' Also, Bo Bice is singing in the choir and a number of other people."
