Tenille Arts releases Don’t Ruin Flowers
By Alan Shipston for Country Music News International Magazine
Dreamcatcher Artists recently announced a partnership with ONErpm for Tenille Arts’ next album, first single and music video to be released worldwide. Don’t Ruin Flowers begins with acoustic guitar playing through the lush ballad while a sparse piano and haunting single notes from an electric guitar allow Tenille’s clear voice to tell the story of a love that is lost but trying to find it’s way back into her life with flowers. Arts playfully sings, “Wild ones are for dashboards, slow drives on a Sunday, Tulips are for backyards, garden at my mom’s place, Roses are for Valentines, daisies are for checkout lines.” As the second verse continues with the simmering chord progression, Arts leans into, “Tale as old as time, I know what you’re gonna do, But boy they ain’t a Band-Aid, can’t cover up the truth, So don’t you go and make a stop, At the local flower shop.” The image portrays the Canadian songstress as having reached the end and pleading, “Just don’t show up to my place and fill up a vase, with a halfway hearted apology, have your pick, you can choose, just don’t ruin flowers for me.”
“Don’t Ruin Flowers came at a time when I thought I had written every feeling of a breakup, and then this one hit me with a mix of sadness and strength,” said Tenille. “I think protecting beautiful things in your life is so important and flowers became the physical representation of that for me at a time when someone in my life was using flowers in place of apologies.” The moving theme of heartbreak, Don’t Ruin Flowers was written by Tenille with Ryan Kohn and Lydia Sutherland with Kohn also producing the session. The official music video was directed and shot by Joey Brodnax in Spring Hill, Tennessee. Coming off of a world tour, where she opened for Luke Bryan, Walker Hayes and her own headline tour backed by AEG in the UK, Tenille has been writing for her next project. The full-length album announcement is planned for summer 2026. Her Somebody Like That single made history as the first, and still the only, number one country song written, produced and performed by all females. She brings forward a double platinum record, two gold records and has amassed nearly one billion global streams.
Born and raised in the small prairie town of Weyburn, Saskatchewan, Tenille Arts picked up the guitar and penned her first song at age thirteen and has been performing nonstop ever since. Her critically-acclaimed 2020 album, Love, Heartbreak, & Everything In Between, yielded her first chart topping single, Somebody Like That, which is certified double platinum. Her Girl To Girl album was released in 2021 and the single, Back Then, Right Now was her first to be released simultaneously in Canada and the U.S. Tenille Art’s 2024 14-song album, To Be Honest, leads with the stunning single, So Do I, written by Demi Lovato, Sasha Sloan, Laura Veltz and King Henry. Tenille was nominated by the ACM Awards for the 2022 New Female Artist of the Year, the iHeartRadio Music Awards as Best New Country Artist, the CMT Music Awards for Female Video and Breakthrough Video of the Year and she won the Music Row Award for Breakthrough Artist of the Year as well as the AIMP 2022 Rising Artist-Writer of the Year Award. She has made an unprecedented three appearances performing original songs on the top-rated ABC TV show The Bachelor and has performed on the TODAY Show, Kelly Clarkson Show and more.