CURRENT SINGLE: “Never Wanted to Be That Girl” w/ Ashley McBryde
When Carly Pearce looked around at her peers and thought about co-writing songs with any of them, she says, “I have only wanted to write with two artists. One being Luke Combs, and we wrote ‘I Hope You’re Happy Now,’ and the second being Ashley (McBryde),” with whom she wrote her current single, “Never Wanted to Be That Girl.”
Carly was drawn to want to write with both Luke and Ashley, because she says, “We all come from the same kind of country music. We just anticipate the way the other one’s gonna sing.”
So when Carly got together with Ashley to write for the first time, she says, “I was hopeful that she would wanna write a duet that we would sing together. And she actually has told me that she was hoping the same thing.”
With the help of Shane McAnally, the first song they wrote together was “Never Wanted to Be That Girl.” “We got in there, and it just kinda happened,” says Carly. “I just knew that we could do something together, and I knew it was gonna be special. And I’m just so proud of this song.”
Carly Pearce – writing with Ashley :36
“I have only wanted to write with two artists. One being Luke Combs, and we wrote ‘I Hope You’re Happy Now,’ and the second being Ashley. And I think what they both kind of resonate with me was that we all come from the same kind of country music. We just anticipate the way the other one’s gonna sing, and I was hopeful that she would wanna write a duet that we would sing together. And she actually has told me that she was hoping the same thing. And we got in there, and it just kinda happened. I just knew that we could do something together, and I knew it was gonna be special. And I’m just so proud of this song.”