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I was wanting to make everybody around me feel comfortable, making them feel unthreatened because I was in that space.

And in doing so, I was the one who was constantly uncomfortable for a very long time.

Welcome to Switched On Pop. I'm songwriter Charlie Harding.

Today I speak with country artist Mickey Geiten who after a decade of fits and starts trying to make a career in country music has finally, in recent months, broken through with songs that use her experiences of rejection, exclusion, and racism as inspiration.

I speak with her about her recent breakout songs. What are you going to tell her and black like me, as well as what it took for her to make it onto one of country music's most beloved stages.

I hope you'll be as mesmerized by her music and inspired by her story as I was in this conversation.

My name is Mickey Geiten. I am an African American female country singer. Yes, that's right.

So just the other night you had a historic moment. You were the first African American solo female artist to perform at the Academy of Country Music Awards.

And you were accompanied by Keith Urban on a song of yours with a really powerful message called, What Are You Going To Tell Her?

Can you tell me the story of that song? Absolutely. So for people that don't really know what's happening in country music, there has just been some major discrepancies when it comes to women being played on country radio.

You can actually look at the charts even right now and you can see that there's only one woman in a duet in the top 20 on country radio.

And this has been going on for a very, very long time. And I've been dealing with those frustrations just as a black woman in country music and to see it happening to other white women in country music has just been really, really hard.

So the inspiration of what are you going to tell her was kind of inspired by that.

She thinks life is fair. God hears every prayer and everyone gets there ever after.

Followed by that there isn't equality here. No matter what you say, no matter how much you try to fight it, the proof is in the numbers.

You can study it, you can research it. It's all there for you to see.

I'm thinking to myself, if you have a daughter, if you have a sister, if you have a mother, a grandmother, what have they gone through to get through life, whether it's in their jobs, whether it's in life period, like you're going to be in a war.

Life period, like the oppression of women is a real pandemic that still is happening today.

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