Carly Pearce co-wrote her latest single, “I Hope Your Happy Now,” with Luke Combs, Jonathan Singleton and Randy Montana, and while it was inspired by a relationship she had to end after she realized she wasn’t in love anymore, there’s a certain beauty to the song. Carly says, “What makes it so beautiful is this is my apology to this person.”
The artwork for the song shows a broken heart being held together by a few stitches, and Carly says, “I actually was pretty emotional at first when I saw the artwork of the heart and listening to the song because I genuinely didn’t mean to hurt this person and I genuinely hope the best for them and I genuinely hope that they’re happy now.”
As a songwriter, Carly often chronicles her life and deals with her emotions through her songwriting, but because this song involves someone whose heart she broke, Carly says, “I will never exploit their name or poke fun at them in the way that I did the guy that hurt me [in ‘Every Little Thing.’]. But this is a genuine feeling that I think he probably knew would eventually come out in some way in my music, because that’s what we do as songwriters.”
In addition to expressing her own feelings through “I Hope You’re Happy Now,” which she sings with Lee Brice, who expresses the guy’s perspective in the song, Carly says, “I feel like what I went through so many people go through and what Lee is singing about so many people got through.”
Carly’s sophomore album, featuring “I Hope You’re Happy Now,” will be released on February 14th.
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“What makes it so beautiful is this is my apology to this person. I actually was pretty emotional at first when I saw the artwork of the heart and listening to the song because I genuinely didn’t mean to hurt this person and I genuinely hope the best for them and I genuinely hope that they’re happy now. So I will never exploit their name or poke fun at them in the way that I did the guy that hurt me. But this is a genuine feeling that I think he probably knew would eventually come out in some way in my music, because that’s what we do as songwriters. And I feel like what I went through so many people go through and what Lee is singing about so many people got through.”