Carly Pearce

So then I wanted to have everything perfect.

I have two things.

hair like even my own hair like on my bathroom floor really grosses me out or like when it's on the shower wall but other people's hair that i don't know who they are and you don't know where it came from yeah but the worst i'll throw up stains stains oh god it's like anywhere on the sheets no you know and i'm like 22 just like wanting to die oh god especially have an ocd oh yeah it was that it probably got worse after that yeah oh my god yes

My parents ended up moving north of town.

And again, like just the sacrifices.

So they move so that I didn't have to work, um, super hard.

But again, like that perfectionist in me, I was like, no, I'm not just going to live rent free.

Like I'm going to do the thing.

So I worked retail.

I cleaned Airbnbs.

I did all this stuff.

Um, so they came with me and, um,

It's so crazy the things that you think at the time.

I was so heartbroken at 19 thinking, how could this not be the time for me?

I got a developmental deal pretty quickly.

and got to record with like my dream producer.

And I was like, oh my gosh, this is so exciting.

But at that time, female artists were like non-existent.

It was like in the bro country time, you were almost like penalized if you were a female.

So I almost feel like I was protected to not,