Jana Kramer

Jana Kramer loves to love. It gets her in trouble sometimes, but that’s okay, because she maintains that love is something she will never, ever give up on. And her latest single “I’ve Done Love” gets to the messy heart of how love can be as addictive as any drug. The song--written by Nashville’s finest, Nicolle Gaylon, Shane McAnally and Josh Osborne--artfully parallels the ups and downs of love with the ups and downs of the hard stuff. You can take hits, wake up hungover, go on midnight binges, and get your fix in a back alley even if you’ve never touched a drug. Near the end of the song, Kramer asks the question, “I’ve done love, or has it done me?” “Man, even with my experiences with domestic abuse and failed marriages, I still believe in love. I believe that love is the most powerful thing,” Kramer says. So when Gaylon texted Kramer her demo of the song, after they’d shared a long lunch in Nashville getting to know each other, it was love at first listen. “Nicolle said she thought I’d really connect to it. And in the first five seconds, I kept thinking, ‘Yep, yep, yep.’ Every sentiment in the song is me. I’ve never done a drug and I’ve never been drunk, but I have done love. Over and over and over again I've done it. It’s been the best and worst times of my life,” she says about what she considers to be the most authentic song she has ever put her voice on. “It is 100 percent who I am and what I’m about. I’ll always choose love, no matter what. I wanted to make sure my next song was one that said, ’This is who I am, this is where I’m at in my life, and this is my song,’” she said, adding that she is sure this is that song. Gaylon worked with Kramer to produce “I’ve Done Love,” which is the first step in Kramer’s next steps as an independent artist. Two years ago, when her second album thirty one was released, Kramer recalls being very proud of the music she’d made. Once it was done, though, she was thrilled be able to turn all of her attention toward her family when her daughter Jolie was born on Jan. 31, 2016.