Country singer-songwriter Carly Pearce sits down with Kelleigh Bannen on Today’s Country Radio on Apple Music Country to talk about her new album ‘hummingbird.' She talks about having something to prove on the new album, moving on from her very public divorce with fellow country star Michael Ray, and shares a message for all the single ladies.
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Carly Pearce Talks To Apple Music About Releasing Her Previous Album ’29: Written In Stone’ During A Time When Her Relationship Status Was In The Spotlight…
I wrote that album under the impression that it was never going to be released. And what I mean by that is I knew that I had to write about what was going on. I had lost my producer. Obviously, I was going through a very public divorce. I needed to get that off my chest, but I did not think that that was commercially what would fit into the fences of our genre. So when it came out for the first time, I felt like people were like, “Oh, she's really writing about her life.”
Carly Pearce Talks To Apple Music About How Her New Album ‘hummingbird’ Isn’t Full Of Songs About Her Divorce With Fellow Country Star Michael Ray…
These songs are not all reflective of that relationship. I didn't want to be defined by that because I have moved on. And you carry pieces of people and experiences with you, but I'm not defined by that. And I was scared because there's so much weight that went with that, good and bad. And so it was like when I started writing, I felt like I had something to prove, that I was more than that.
Carly Pearce Tells Apple Music She Hopes Her Story Will Help Change The Conversation About The Expectations Put On Women When It Comes To Relationships…
I'm trying to break the stigma of what society tells you at a girl in her thirties should have. Just because I'm not married again or I haven't quite figured out love does not make me any less of a woman or any less of a person. Somehow, again, I'm always like, what are you teaching me? What are you showing me? And I feel like during that season, it was my duty as a human being, I feel like, and one of my found purposes was to show you don't have to stay in something just because society tells you that you should…And so now it's like I have so many girls around my age that are like, “I'm single in my thirties and you make me feel like it's okay.”
Carly Pearce Talks To Apple Music About Her New Song “Truck On Fire”…
I wrote this with Charles Kelley of Lady A and Justin Ebach and it was so fun. I feel like sad songs and sass have always been two things that I've really gravitated towards and I got to really let loose on this album with that. I really wanted to write something that just gave girls an anthem to just feel powerful. And don't we all have all these crazy dreams in our head of burning down the thing that said human that hurt us loves the most.
