Carly Pearce

I mean, when I tell you, I was like crying on the couch of my publisher the week before it went out on the highway and

being like, oh my God, it's a heartbreak ballad.

Like nobody's ever going to care.

This is my last chance.

And he's like, it's fine.

Like just let him play it and then we'll get onto the next song.

It was selling at the time, like outselling every song on iTunes as an independent artist.

Yeah, it was like, I think there's only, at the time it was like in the last decade, three female artists that their solo debut went to number one.

It's now multi-platinum.

I think what it did is it solidified my artistry.

That's the song that broke me.

So it's been a really fun thing for me to remember artistically

that song was the exception to the rule.

It was a heartbreak ballad in the middle of summer, very little production in a world where it was very male driven and like very bro country, if you will.

And I just, you know, I remember it happened so fast.

It was just like a rocket.

I was just trying to hold on.

So many thoughts.

What I struggle with is I always say, I feel like, now this is the best I've ever seen.

Like the female artists right now,