It Happens All The Time

Megan Hilty’s debut album, It Happens All the Time, presents a different side of the beloved star of the hit musical TV drama series, Smash. With It Happens All the Time, Megan reveals facets of her personality that even her fans have yet to see. “I want to show a different side of me because it’s the first thing I’ve ever done that’s just me and not attached to any character or story line,” says Hilty. The repertoire is a big step beyond both the musical theater world where Hilty initially found fame, as Glinda in Wicked and Doralee Rhodes in 9 to 5: The Musical, and especially her TV character Ivy Lynn in the Golden Globe® nominated series, Smash, on which she sings the Grammy® nominated song “Let Me Be Your Star.”

For Hilty, the key to her debut album was finding songs that she could identify with. “I was looking for lyrics I could connect with. I always feel that there has to be a point to what I’m singing instead of it just being a pretty sound.” Produced by Grammy®-winners Andy Zulla and Jimmy Hogarth, It Happens All the Time features Hilty’s fresh interpretations of songs by contemporary songwriters Aimee Mann, Sara Barielles, Bruno Mars and Damien Rice. The album also features new songs by Hogarth (Amy Winehouse, Duffy), Wayne Hector (James Morrison, One Direction), Glen Ballard (Alanis Morrisette, Wilson Phillips), Ne-Yo and Carrie Underwood.