who is the girl that sings with toby mac
Hollyn Hollyn started her music recording career in 2013, with her appearance on season 12 of American Idol, where she made it to the Hollywood week rounds before she was eliminated.[8] Hollyn appeared on tobyMac's This Is Not a Test album, where she was featured on "Backseat Driver" and "Light Shine Bright". She also appeared in Funky Jesus Music by TobyMac. [9]The song has charted on two Billboard magazine charts Christian Songs at No. 29,[10] and Christian Digital Songs at No. 16.[11] Her first extended play, Hollyn, was released on October 16, 2015, from Gotee Records.[12][13][14] The song, "Alone", charted on the Billboard magazine Christian Airplay chart at No. 11 & No. 3 on the Christian Top 40. ,[15] This extended play charted at No. 10 on the Billboard magazine Christian Albums chart. She released a single called "Love With Your Life" on July 14, 2016.[16] On February 10, 2017, Hollyn released her debut album, One-Way Conversations.[17] She released her single "Hola!" on September 15, 2017.[18]
Cinnamon Girl The lyrics have the singer daydreaming for a girl to love, singing that he waits "between shows" for his lover.[6] Young has claimed that he wrote the song "for a city girl on peeling pavement coming at me through Phil Ochs' eyes playing finger cymbals. It was hard to explain to my wife."[4] The city girl playing finger cymbals is a reference to folk singer Jean Ray.[6] Music critic Johnny Rogan described the lyrics as "exotic and allusive without really saying anything at all."[4] Critic Toby Creswell describes the lyrics as "cryptic love lyrics" noting that they are sung "over the crunching power of Crazy Horse."[2] Critic John Mendelsohn felt the song conveyed a message of "desperation begetting brutal vindictiveness," hinted at by the "almost impenetrably subjective words" but carried strongly by the sound of Crazy Horse's "heavy, sinister accompaniment."[2] Introducing the song at a performance associated with Writer's Week at Whittier College (California) in April, 2015, Los Lobos co-founder Louie Perez said that when he first heard "Cinnamon Girl", he was sure it was about a Mexican girl.[7]