Carly Pearce’s sophomore album has some pretty emotional songs on it, including the heart-wrenching “Halfway Home,” and her current top ten hit, “I Hope You’re Happy Now.” To watch Carly perform those songs live, you would swear she was reliving the pain of those songs all over again, because she sings with such emotion, but Carly says it’s all just part of the process when she write songs that are based on her real life. “I revisit (my debut single) ‘Every Little Thing’ every night, but,” she says, “I think it gets easier. You just get used to and you’re able to just kind of emote and turn it into a different way, and just understand that that was a moment in time in your life.”
Obviously, the further Carly gets from the event that inspired her emotionally charged songs, singing them live becomes more about emoting from memory than actually feeling the heartache in the moment, because she says, “If you write those words, you’re not gonna forget that emotion.”
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“I revisit ‘Every Little Thing’ every night, but I think it gets easier. You just get used to and you’re able to just kind of emote and turn it into a different way, and just understand that that was a moment in time in your life. And I don’t know that you’ll ever … if you write those words, you’re not gonna forget that emotion.”