CURRENT SINGLE: “Next Girl”
Like so many artists, not being able to tour over the last year has definitely made Carly Pearce more grateful and aware of just how lucky she is. Not that she didn’t realize it before, but she says, “As an artist you kinda go into auto pilot, a little bit, and you’re kind of a robot. And when this happened, I was pulled off the road very fast. And in an instant I watched my band walk away in the airport. And it was like, oh wow. Okay, this thing that I always talk about is such a hectic … aww, I can’t do this cause I’m on the road, I can’t do this cause I’m on the road, was taken away in just two seconds.”
Once Carly was able to process the shock and heartbreak of not being able to do what she loves, she says the pandemic, in terms of how it affected her music, “I think that what it’s done for me with music is given me the space and the time, and just like this silence, to really get in touch with my feelings, get in touch with what I’ve learned through this time, which is a lot, and very unexpected, and trying to find the silver lining. And more than ever, I think you’ll continue to hear that through my music.”
If Carly’s latest project, 29, is an example of the kind of music the pandemic has inspired her to make, we’d say she definitely found the silver lining in the last year.
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“As an artist you kinda go into auto pilot a little bit, and you’re kind of a robot. And when this happened, I was pulled off the road very fast. And in an instant, I watched my band walk away in the airport. And it was like, oh wow. Okay, this thing that I always talk about is such a hectic … aww, I can’t do this cause I’m on the road, I can’t do this cause I’m on the road, was taken away in just two seconds. I think that what it’s done for me with music is given me the space and the time, and just like this silence, to really get in touch with my feelings, get in touch with what I’ve learned through this time, which is a lot, and very unexpected, and trying to find the silver lining. And more than ever, I think you’ll continue to hear that through my music.”