“Growing up, I didn’t see a lot of people—in fact, anybody—doing what I’m doing today,” country singer Brittney Spencer says, commenting on the traditional lack of Black faces in country. “I didn’t realize until my adult years that that sort of image has shaped what I thought I could do in the world, who I could be in the world, and knowing that if maybe even one person is seeing what I’m doing today, they might decide a lot quicker than I did that they can actually go for something that’s really on their heart.” For Apple Music’s 2022 Juneteenth celebration, which features Freedom Songs, an exclusive collection of covers and originals, Spencer cooked up “More Than Perfect,” a song focused on inner beauty. “It’s about not putting so much weight and stock into appearance as if it could ever tell the full story of who a person is,” she says. “An artful display of fashion and tattoos—which I have—and makeup and filters and all these things, it will never tell you about someone’s character, their dreams, their aspirations, the things they care about, the people they care for. It’ll never tell you the whole story because it just simply can’t.”