Jamie O’Neal is back with new music! The singer just dropped “Wreck Me,” which she wrote with  Rachele Lynae and Hannah Bethel. The song is from Jamie’s upcoming Sometimes album, a mix of new songs and some reimagined versions of some of her previous hits, including “There Is No Arizona” and “Somebody’s Hero.”

Jamie has been producing and writing with other artists, which is how “Wreck Me” was created.

“I’ve met young artists that I was working with producing,” Jamie told Everything Nash. “I’m just like, ‘If you’re not going to cut this song, can I cut this song?’ The day we wrote it, I loved it, especially the title. I just felt really close to the song. I liked the idea of saying, ‘No matter what happens, even if he breaks my heart, even if I’m a wreck walking away from this, go ahead and do it.'”

Jamie’s debut single was “There Is No Arizona,” released 20 years ago, and quickly making Jamie one of the leading ladies in country music, in a time when female artists dominated the airwaves.

“I feel very fortunate, because I think right now it is much harder to break through,” Jamie acknowledged. “Back then I think the label was spending more money on breaking artists. And now they’re kind of hoping that it happens by itself without spending all that money. They did everything for me. They built the website and everything. Now it is so DIY,  I’m sure they don’t do that.”

Jamie doesn’t have a specific date when Sometimes will be released, but she has had to adjust how she finishes the album, due to COVID-19.

“I have to just try to keep myself in the moment,” Jamie said. “I feel like the Serenity Prayer works for me. After going to Al-Anon for years, due to a family member,  I accept the things I cannot change. I think you can really get even more fearful about what may or may not happen. But you could do that about so many different things. Not just the pandemic, but that’s definitely made it worse.

“I’m working on the album right now and we have deadlines for things that have to be turned in, or things that we’ve done,” she added. “So I just focus day to day on the things that have to be done.”

When choosing the songs on Sometimes, Jamie thought of the ones her fans loved the most, and still love 20 years later.

“I just picked the most popular ones that everybody knows,” Jamie shared. “I have a couple of others that I probably could have done, and I’ll do those down the road.  I want to do some recordings of songs I’ve had cut by outside artists as well. I picked the ones that I love and that everybody seems to really connect with.”

“Wreck Me” is available for purchase at iTunes.

Photo Credit: Courtesy of Adkins Publicity / Angela Talley