LeAnn Rimes photo courtesy of Curb Records
June 21, 2007 — LeAnn Rimes describes her new single "Nothing Better to Do," which she wrote with her husband, Dean Sheremet, and Blair Daly, as an autobiography of her alter ego.
"I grew up in a small, backwoods kind of town in Mississippi," she tells The Tennessean. "Literally, there was a shop across the street that only sold bait and bullets. We kind of wrote the song about what might have happened if I never got out. It's a part of my personality that people don't usually see. It's fun to be able to come out through the music."
LeAnn shot the video for "Nothing Better to Do" at the old Tennessee State Penitentiary, which closed in 1992 after nearly 100 years in operation, and co-directed it with David McClister, while Dean choreographed the production.
"I have very specific ideas now of what I want," Rimes said. "It was so much fun. We worked for 22 hours one day and shot it on Death Row in a cell next to the electric chair. It was kind of creepy, but very cool."