Emerging Play It Again Music songstress Faith Hopkins has released her latest track, “Makes Him A Man,” available now. Listen here.
“‘Makes Him a Man’ is about the qualities in a man that truly matter to a woman,” Hopkins explains. “The song is a celebration of how a man’s treatment of a woman is what really defines him as a man. I wrote this song with Kyle Clark, Andrew Stoelzing, Conner Moye, and Evan Cline, and we wanted to capture the laid-back, slow-burning romance in songs like Jason Aldean’s ‘You Make It Easy’ and Ariana Grande and Justin Bieber’s ‘Stuck with U,’ and give it a feel-good vibe with a smooth 6/8 tempo. ‘Makes Him a Man’ celebrates a good man—whether you have one or are still waiting for one to come along.”
“Makes Him A Man” follows Hopkins’s release of “Am I The Only One?,” which arrived earlier this year. Country Swag lauded the “raw and vulnerable” track, noting that it feels “like a song straight out of a diary entry” and “a coming of age movie in a song.” Last year, the singer introduced her debut tracks, including “Making Me” and “Oops (There Goes My Heart).” Holler called the latter “a giant overflowing cup of deliciously catchy country pop…for anyone who wished Sabrina Carpenter hadn’t stopped at ‘Slim Pickins’ and had made a whole album of country songs, Faith Hopkins is lining up to make it a reality.”
Raised in Huntington Beach, California, Hopkins’s upbringing was a bit more beach than country, but she was always drawn to the immersive storytelling and steadfast values woven into country music songs. Born with a voice that’s equally delicate and powerful, she grew up singing around her house and through a program at her high school called the Academy of Performing Arts. Hopkins eventually put pen to paper, tapping into elements of some of her favorite artists to create original music; her love of girl’s girl jams from artists like Kelsea Ballerini and Sabrina Carpenter, the captivating storytelling of hitmakers like Nora Jones and Sara Bareilles, and the lilting and breathy vocals of Lennon Stella and Sasha Sloan inspire the music she creates today.
After falling in love with Nashville on a trip with her mom during high school, she decided to enroll in Belmont University. In the following years, she finetuned her stories and sound, eventually earning her way onto stages at writers’ rounds. Recently, she became part of the Song Suffragettes, an all-female country music singer-songwriter showcase that takes place each week at the Listening Room – the same cafe where she first fell in love with Nashville. She quickly gained the attention of industry leaders in town with her playful and vibrant take on pop-infused country, and in 2024, signed with hit songwriter Dallas Davidson’s Play It Again Music.
