Carly Pearce is unafraid to bare her soul in her music. Ever since her 2017 debut single, "Every Little Thing," Pearce has been vulnerable and honest in her music. But now, with the release of her latest hummingbird: no rain, no flowers, Pearce looks back on her freshman Every Little Thing record, and recalls the turmoil she was living out in real-time with that project.
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"I was super scattered on my first record. I was still feeling like I was not good enough because so many people for years had told me I wasn't good enough," Pearce acknowledges.
Pearce goes on to say that she "still had body image issues" that she was dealing with as well, among other issues.
"I wasn't in a good relationship that wasn't serving me well," she adds.
Pearce followed Every Little Thing with her eponymous freshman record. Her third studio album, 29: Written in Stone was about her healing journey after the end of her brief marriage to Michael Ray.
"I feel like I've unpacked a lot of things through the last few years, and really tried to do some self-working," Pearce explains. "And just really get to the core of why some of the things are the way they are and how can I improve myself. Just really getting to a place of I am who I am. I like who I am. I don't need somebody else's approval to tell me that I'm worthy. And that was hard."
Carly Pearce's "Truck On Fire"
Pearce currently has a Top 20 hit with "Truck On Fire." The song is from her original hummingbird record, released last year.
"Honestly, it's like 'This guy did this to me, and I took his truck and burned it down,'" Pearce tells
USA Today. "But, there is that sentiment that I think is in especially us ladies where, if you do us wrong, we want to seek revenge. And what is like the dream scenario to get rid of something? Carrie Underwood keyed the car. I'm burning the truck down. And I think maybe that's just the Kentucky side of me coming out, for everybody."But it's been fun to see the way that girls — it's another form to me of giving girls an anthem of feeling strong," she adds. "I think that's become so much a part of who I am and my duty as an artist."
