Earlier this year, Carly Pearce channeled Carrie Underwood with her scorching single “truck on fire.” With lyrics like, Liar, liar, truck on fire / Flames rolling off of your Goodyear tires / Burn, burn, you’re gonna learn, the “girl anthem” has become a rallying cry for this generation’s women scorned. And it wasn’t Pearce’s first time channeling heartbreak into art. Her 2021 album 29: Written in Stone chronicled her divorce from country singer Michael Ray. However, any time an artist lifts the curtain on their personal life, listeners are likely to draw their own conclusions. Recently, the Kentucky-born artist, 34, cleared up a common fan misconception about her.
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Carly Pearce: “I’m So Much More Than That”
Speaking to Twilight actor Taylor Lautner and his wife (also Taylor Lautner) on their podcast The Squeeze, Carly Pearce noted “I don’t know if I’ve ever been able to say this,” and that many listeners believe “that I don’t know how to be in a relationship and I only write music about my messed-up relationships.”
Even if that were accurate, Pearce is far from the only artist to ever write about failed romance. But she insists that misconception is “so not true.”
“I think love is so beautiful, and I know that I want that and desire that, and just because I’ve — a lot of us write about the same stuff,” said the “Next Girl” singer. “It just seems to be kind of a stigma that has hung over me because somebody was able to attach a name to my songs. And I’m so much more than that.”
Pearce’s fourth studio album, hummingbird, flies in the face of that assumption. In a press release about the record, the four-time CMA Award winner said, “These 14 songs encapsulate my confidence that there is light on the other side of darkness.”
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The ‘Hummingbird’ Tour Has Begun
If you can’t get enough Carly Pearce, here’s your chance. The “What He Didn’t Do” singer kicked off the North American leg of her wildly-anticipated hummingbird tour last week in Windsor, Ontario, Canada.
The tour will stop in Cleveland, Tucson, Las Vegas, and Calgary before Pearce heads overseas in February 2025. After wrapping up her European run, the Grammy Award-winning artist will return to the U.S. The hummingbird tour concludes May 16, 2025 in Nashville.
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