Carly Pearce’s latest single, “I Hope You’re Happy Now,” has been the fastest rising single on the charts of her career. It’s a song that was written from Carly’s personal experience of having to tell her boyfriend at the time that she was no longer in love with him and she was breaking up with him. For fans to connect to the song and support it the way they have, Carly says, “It makes it that much more special because it is directly out of your story and it’s directly out of something that you felt like you needed to say.”
But also, the support the song has received lets Carly know that her instinct to be open and honest and vulnerable in her songwriting is the right decision. She says, “The fact that it translates to people makes you know that I trust myself more, I think. All I ever wanted to do is be vulnerable enough to let people know that things are okay that they go through.”
Unlike Carly’s debut single, “Every Little Thing,” which was about someone else breaking her heart, she says, in “I Hope You’re Happy Now,” “I was the heartbreaker in this scenario and I punished myself for a while for that, and now I see that there is beauty in maybe things that don’t make you look (great) … you know, not very many girls are the ones that are going, ‘It’s my fault. Sorry.’”
“I Hope You’re Happy Now,” which Carly sings with Lee Brice, is currently in the top 15 on the charts and continuing to climb toward the top.
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“It makes it that much more special because it is directly out of your story and it’s directly out of something that you felt like you needed to say. And the fact that it translates to people makes you know that I trust myself more, I think. All I ever wanted to do is be vulnerable enough to let people know that things are okay that they go through, and this is one of those examples of a situation that is very different from ‘Every Little Thing.” I was the heartbreaker in this scenario and I punished myself for a while for that, and now I see that there is beauty in maybe things that don’t make you look … you know, not very many girls are the ones that are going, ‘It’s my fault. Sorry.’”