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Carly Pearce heads into next week’s CMA Awards with a total of four nominations, including three for her #1 song, “I Hope You’re Happy Now.” Carly describes the song as “the little gift that keeps giving.”
Carly recalls awkwardly asking Luke Combs if he would write a song with her and then getting Lee Brice to add his vocals to the song “and absolutely sing it into the rafters,” and to think of how much the song has accomplished since then, means so much to Carly. One reason in particular is because she points out that “(I Hope You’re Happy Now) is the last song that busbee, my producer, worked on before he got sick and passed away from brain cancer. And I could not think of a more special moment for the person that gave me so much.”
Besides the pandemic, 2020 has been a tough year for Carly, having to learn to make music without busbee, going through a divorce after less than a year of marriage and worrying about her mom who is battling stage four COPD, but she says, “Something that’s been a beautiful constant thing for me during this hard year has been music. It’s been country music and getting to create country music and then to be recognized in such a huge way. I love country music and it has saved my soul and (these CMA nominations are) just another way that it continues to save me and make me realize who I’m supposed to be and what I want to do in life.”
“I Hope You’re Happy Now” is nominated for Musical Event, Video and Song of the Year, which is awarded to the songwriters, and Carly says, “That one means extra. That’s on another level. You realize how important songs are when you do this and you realize how many great songs happen. And to think that I was recognized as a songwriter, solely, on something that was so special and so personal to me, that is very, very special to me because it shows something outside of just Carly Pearce.”
Carly is also nominated for the CMA New Artist of the Year, and you’ll be able to see if Carly wins next Wednesday night, November 11th, when the CMA Awards air live from Nashville at 8pm ET/7pm CT on ABC.
Carly Pearce – CMA life of I Hope You’re Happy Now :25
“It’s the little gift that keeps giving. This song started from me asking Luke Combs at a radio show, ‘Hey, will you write a song with me?’ To then see Lee come and absolutely sing it into the rafters, to then all of this. Also, on a personal note, it is the last song that busbee, my producer, worked on before he got sick and passed away from brain cancer. And I could not think of a more special moment for the person that gave me so much.”
Carly Pearce – CMA noms in crazy 2020 :28
“2020’s been interesting, but I think that there are beautiful moments. And for me, something that’s been a beautiful constant thing for me during this hard year has been music. It’s been country music and getting to create country music and then to be recognized in such a huge way. I love country music and it has saved my soul and this is just another way that it continues to save me and make me realize who I’m supposed to be and what I want to do in life.”
Carly Pearce – CMA recognized as a songwriter :24
“That one means extra. That’s on another level. You realize how important songs are when you do this and you realize how many great songs happen. And to think that I was recognized as a songwriter, solely, on something that was so special and so personal to me, that is very, very special to me because it shows something outside of just Carly Pearce.”
SOME ADDITIONAL CMA AWARDS SOUNDBITES FROM CARLY THAT WERE SERVICED THE DAY THE NOMINATIONS WERE ANNOUNCED:
Carly Pearce – CMA initial reaction
:25 Carly Pearce shares her initial reaction to receiving four CMA nominations for New Artist, plus Musical Event of the Year, Video of the Year and a nod as a songwriter for Song of the Year for “I Hope You’re Happy Now.”
OC … and this year is extra special.
Carly Pearce – CMA celebrate with Lee and Luke
:26 Carly Pearce shares how she’s celebrated the success of “I Hope You’re Happy Now” with Lee Brice, who sings with her, and Luke Combs, who was a co-writer on the song.
OC … songwriter, that one hits hard.
Carly Pearce – CMA celebrate with parents
:24 Carly Pearce is extremely close with her parents, so we asked her if she had a chance to talk to them yet, right after she found out she was nominated for four awards.
OC … and this is a really great thing.