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Carly Pearce Addresses TMZ Post · Inside Country with Wayne D

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  Hey, it's Tay Hamilton and we recently got to catch up with Carly Pierce.
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  We were lucky enough to do it in front of a live audience downtown
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  Nashville inside Jason Alden's Kitchen and rooftop bar. Here it is. My name
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  is Wayne d. She is Tay from The Big ninety eight and iHeartRadio.
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  We appreciate you all joining us at Jason al Dean's kitchen a rooftop bar.
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  We have an amazing opportunity here to get you up close and personal with some
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  artists and sometimes are brand new artists who you walk out afterwards and go,
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  who the hell was that again? And then there's times that we can bring
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  legit award winners in here whose names are forever written in country music history,
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  all right, but also not just any awards Grammy. That's a big deal,
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  ladies and gentlemen. Carly Pearce, Hey, it's awkward if it's quiet
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  now, so a little more please, okay, listen. I appreciate you
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  guys. Hello, I appreciate the cameras, but these sorts are shorter than
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  I realized. So, oh boy, I don't have an OnlyFans yet,
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  so I'm gonna tell you we had the first opportunity to meet Carly. Uh,
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  I'm telling you so long ago. She started as an on the verge
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  artist without the country and and artists do what are called radio tours, So
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  before you ever hear them on the radio, before you're ever streaming their music,
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  they do what's called a radio tour where they literally carry their guitar and
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  visit three different cities in a day. Yeah. So uh, she won't
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  say it, but it's honestly hell on an artist, And you can tell,
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  uh, what give us that experience? You're far past it. But
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  you're walking in the door as a brand new artist, you just signed a
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  record deal and you're out meeting country radio. What's it like interdu sing yourself
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  as a new artist. I mean, you have no idea what you're doing.
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  You're walking in and you're playing these performances for people at the radio station.
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  But like they invite everybody that is working at the radio station. And
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  sometimes it's like during lunch hour, so I remember singing every little thing,
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  like while a guy was heating his pizza. Sometimes they just get up and
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  leave. But I mean it was chaotic, like truly, I was maybe
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  on flight like three different cities sometimes it felt like three different states, and
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  you're just kind of trying to capitalize on this moment that you get with the
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  people that could change your life, and you're like very nervous about it and
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  very just kind of overwhelmed of oh my gosh, I have to make a
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  good impression. So it's kind of like a first date, like three times
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  a day for I don't know, eight weeks. I heard that calm down
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  over here, this single guy over here, you reel it in well.
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  And now fast forward to now you've been doing this now for quite some time.
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  What would you say are the best things about your job and the worst
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  things? Now? I mean the best things are that my job doesn't feel
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  like a job, that I get to just perform and write songs and I
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  don't know, just to get to perform every day, and people care about
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  what you have to say. I would say the hardest or the worst thing
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  about it is just your life is kind of not your own anymore. So,
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  so like time at your home is very few and far between, and
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  it's just harder to have a little bit of normalcy, if that makes sense.
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  Speaking of normalcy, how many of y'all were around for CMA fest.
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  Okay, do you live here? Are you still here? Okay? I
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  was gonna say, if you're still here, goal to hell home. But
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  Carly speaking of like her life isn't her own anything an artist does lives forever
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  now right, we were just talking about a afest and I'm going to give
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  you the chance to clear the air here. Uh, she was in front,
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  so give us a back. Any y'all check out TMZ on a regular
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  basis. No, that's not. You're the one proud person a celebrities failing
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  at life. I'm there daily. No, it's fine, it's fine,
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  we're not judging you. She's drunk, She's like, yeah, But so
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  tell us about the picture that went crazy viral and is a massive misunderstanding.
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  I posted a picture of me outside of my tour bus getting ready to play
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  the stadium, and the you know, there's apparently an underground satanic cult in
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  the entertainment industry, and there was a six six eight, but fans thought
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  it said six sixty six, and everybody was like, Carly's a devil worshiper.
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  And I was like, of anybody me really? And you really think?
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  So? I had to go and I made it to TMZ because of
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  my Satanic's tendencies, you know. Yeah, She's like I know, I
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  saw I printed the page. When you sign it and like me and my
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  like rhinestones, I'm like, yo, mass satan. No, I'll be
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  honest. The Devil would send her straight back to us. I probably he'd
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  be like, she's too high maintenance, get her out. That's like the
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  weirdest thing you've ever seen. That's actually maybe the weirdest. And like the
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  little picture on TMZ was like me looking like this on stage, Like they
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  picked this really weird photo and then they had like the devil with his pitchfork,
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  and I was just like this, this is new, this is new.
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  Oh I will my mom? Were you worried? My mom was like,
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  I'm proud of you for standing up for your faith. I was like,
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  yeah, mom, I don't want people thinking I'm a devil worshiper.
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  Well, so in between CMA Fest and now you're on tour with Timm gral
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  standing room only tour. Now you're it's not a secret, right, We
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  all see all of our social media that Tim McGraw is a health freak.
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  He's constantly working out. Does he get you to work out with him?
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  Is he like waking you up or in the mornings? No, I no
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  joke. I mean I lifted his tire kind of as a joke, or
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  I tried to, and it was so much heavier than I thought it was.
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  It almost like knocked me over. So one time I had him show
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  me how to lift the tire, and I joke because I came out that
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  I had a heart issue right after that. So I think timmocgral broke my
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  heart, like actually like killed me physically because I can't lift a tire.
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  But no, I watch him from my bus at like three o'clock when I'm
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  usually eating like a cookie, flipping tires and working out for like two hours.
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  It's insane. So as an artist who is on tour, getting to
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  open or be direct support for a guy like Tim McGraw is obviously a massive
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  deal and probably pretty exciting. How do you hear news that you've been invited
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  to that tour? I was getting my nails done and my manager called me
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  and he was like, hey, timmcgral wants you to come on tour with
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  him next year. And I had to be cool because I was in the
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  nail salon and it was quiet. I was like, okay, I would
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  like to do that, thank you so much, and that was it.
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  It was like, great, I would like blue to nail polish. Well,
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  you're also celebrating your fourth album, Hummingbird. Congratulations, Thank you.
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  It's so dang good. But you were also a co producer on this album
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  as well. Is that a new role for you? And what were like
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  the responsibilities, Like, yeah, this is the first album that I've had
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  any kind of co producer credit on. I grew up every single album that
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  I bought, it was like who produced it, who wrote on it,
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  who's playing on it? Who are the background singers? Like. I was
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  always fascinated by all of that. And so as you continue on in the
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  studio and you kind of find your sound, I think it's like only natural
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  that probably the person that understands your sound the most is you. And I
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  wrote all of these songs, so I feel like I kind of know how
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  I want them to sound, and so it was just so much fun to
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  get to kind of go in there and these I'm not a great musician,
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  like I play guitar to be able to write, but I cannot play parts
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  at all, but I hear things in my head, so just to be
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  able to kind of like try to communicate those to the musicians and be like,
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  I think this should be this And it was a really fun thing.
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  One thing that I love about Carly is she, since day one, has
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  been an open book. If you don't believe in a song, you don't
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  feel a song, you don't write or perform the song. Part of that
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  is being super vulnerable. Over the last handful of years, you have gone
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  through a hell of a ride in life, but you took everybody with you.
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  Could have easily shut the door, did what you needed to for you,
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  and then swung it back open. Why was it important to kind of
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  be a window for your fans while you were dealing with life. Well,
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  I was writing in real time when all of this stuff was going on in
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  my life, and it just did not feel natural. I remember some on
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  my team being like, well, you could just like write a song about
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  life and not about love, and I was like, yeah, because that
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  makes sense as a newlywed, Okay, And that just kind of started this
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  thought in my mind that if I'm going to be the type of artists that
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  I want to be, which is honest. I have to just accept that
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  the not so pretty parts of my life are going to come out right now,
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  but in return have become some of the biggest pillars of what I feel
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  like people have latched onto just to you know, I wrote this music feeling
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  like I was the only one going through it, and in return, so
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  many other people have been going through things like that or felt shame around things
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  in their life that have happened. And now I feel like we've kind of
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  all gotten stronger together, and I think about, oh, my gosh,
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  if I wouldn't have just been honest. So it's kind of been my like
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  the bar has been set for me of the type of of authenticity that I
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  want to always convey. I'll take no more divorces. But you know,
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  well now, in kind of a play on that, was there ever a
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  time where you put out a song and maybe look back and you were like,
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  ooh, maybe it was a little too vulnerable there? No, No,
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  I feel like I remember driving, I'll never forget where I was.
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  And I played my dad that this is before any of the twenty nine record
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  was out, And I played my dad next girl, and he listened to
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  it like this, and then at the end he just looked at me and
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  he was like, you can't put that out And I was like, watch
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  me. So no, I'm not afraid. I love it. Well,
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  how many of y'all have had your heart broke before? Get okay, okay
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  to y'all that were quiet right there? You need to be loved the all
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  right, or own it? So I'm gonna try again. How many y'all
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  had your heart broke before? So he's laughing because you're the heartbreaker, you
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  bastard. That's fine, He's like, not me, bro get in,
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  get out. You know what? Uh I that I did not? There's
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  children. Every girl in here is gonna kill you, Wayne. It's fine.
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  How therapeutic is it to hear fans latch on to words that were therapeutic
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  for you to begin with? I mean it's been why I feel like I've
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  been able to heal is because every and I wish I always say this,
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  like, I wish that every single person who's ever had their heartbroken in the
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  way that I did was able every single night to have this community of people,
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  or go on Instagram and have hundreds of dms of stories that make you
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  feel like you're not the only one going through it, and so it's been
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  super healing and I think the only way that I've been able to kind of
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  just move forward and get out of that phase of my life. We're getting
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  ready to wrap things up here, but I wanted to talk to you because
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  you've you've been through so many things in your career already, right the opry
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  which you're at tonight. I am there is anybody coming from performing at the
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  opera but also a Grammy winner. I just feel like you can't get any
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  bigger than that, So, like, what's what's the next goal for you?
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  I feel like more of the same. I just want to keep making
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  music that continues to secure my place in country music. And I feel like
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  all the if I like that. If you don't follow her on Instagram and
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  Twitter and everything already, you should thank you so much. That's she's trying
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  to get a picture at her bridal party. You just wrap it up.
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  Oh is it your what? Oh it's your bachelorette? Oh girl, Yeah,
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  we need to talk. I'm joking them a kid. Yeah, I
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  mean all I ever wanted was to be in country music. So all of
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  the greats that I feel like I look up to they continue to elevate,
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  Tim mcgral being one of them. I mean, you think about it,
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  he was a nineties country artist. How is that even possible when I feel
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  like he's like hotter than ever. So, just continuing to make sure that
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  I'm working really hard and maintaining what I got going on. You know,
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  Uh, Carly put out a new album what Feels Like yesterday, But honestly
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  it's been a week, couple week, week and a half. As your
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  career continues and your life continues, what are some stories that you were really
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  excited to tell with this new album. I think the biggest one is that,
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  well, I guess too. I feel like Loretta Lynne, what she
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  does better than anybody, or what she did better than anybody was she kind
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  of had a humor to the really not so great parts of her life that
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  happened to her. And I feel like this album, when you can attach
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  to things that once you couldn't speak about because you were so traumatized by it,
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  When you get to that humor part, that's growth and I think just
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  showing people that you can have the greatest season of your life after what you
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  thought was the end of your life, and that's the most important thing for
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  me is it's like no, no, Like, I'm not here to just
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  tell you like I lived it. Here's here's my thoughts on it. You
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  know, I like that a lot. I want to ask when when we
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  interview artists, it's a lot of like, here's a great awards you were
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  nominated for, here's a great story about a song. I'm going to ask
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  you to talk a little smack on yourself. At some point, at some
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  point, you wrote a song or put a line in a song that you
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  were like, this is ridiculous, but let's run with it. We just
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  caught up with Old Dominion and they were talking about what is it the I'm
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  gonna forget? It's something I was on a boat that day. It's had
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  a drunk, had a drink with a cross eyed bear. However, the
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  line goes, but is there a line in a song for you that you
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  look back and you're like, well, it's there now, I guess Wow.
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  I've never been asked that. That doesn't mean it's a good question,
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  by the way, natally, it's a good I'm like, literally, I'm
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  like, what are all the songs that I've written. I don't know,
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  like I think some of my earlier songs, like one that comes to mind
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  that I think, you know, I had the right intention, but it's
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  kind of stupid, is no. I feel bad because you guys are gonna
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  put this on the internet, send it to TMZ bro Color. Like I
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  have a song called color and like the thought of you be the lines,
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  I'll be the color. That's kind of stupid, but you know it's here,
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  but it's like, that's kind of dumb. I don't know, Like
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  it just feels like a little elementary to me. But I was young in
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  elementary in my writing. So the new album is out. You have a
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  lot of dates lined up in between now and the end of the year,
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  But what are some things you're looking forward to as far as unplugging some days
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  off and what do you do with your days off? I'm gonna I'm starting
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  to write for my next record, which again that's another thing, like I
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  took so much time to make this album because I just needed it. But
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  now I feel really inspired and like excited about the next So I'm gonna do
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  that. She just says she's gonna work with her time off y'all are cheering.
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  It never ends, it never iss. That's awful for mental health.
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  Hey, let me ask what do you do for mental health? I literally
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  was like, that's coffee, I drink wine, I'm exercise. Like,
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  that's a really good thing for me. Therapy, wine, my dogs.
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  They're my emotional support system. But it's more important than ever right in country
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  music to like make sure you're taking care of yourself away from the music,
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  for sure. I mean, I think therapy has been something that's been really
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  absolutely needed just to have a third party that I can speak to that has
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  nothing to do with anything in my life. Sometimes you just need to be
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  able to have that outlet, especially in a world where it's kind of like
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  all the time. Yeah, how does that help too? With writing?
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  I feel like I work out a lot of like details about my life that
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  then are kind of unique song ideas. A lot of the Oklahoma or the
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  Oklahoma I was thinking about the song Oklahoma. Songs like Oklahoma in My Place
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  Pretty Please, Like those were talked about in therapy for sure before they were
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  written. All Right, last question I want to ask is you have experienced
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  some amazing things, probably things that were on your buck list, but like
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  they're just there because they're there you maybe never thought you'd get to them.
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  If you could pick an event or a day or an experience that that was
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  the best day ever, what would it be? I would pick two.
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  One when Dolly surprised me to be invited as a member of the opry,
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  that was that was a good one. And then when I won a Female
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  Vocalist of the Year, that was that was a good one. Those are
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  good days, very good things. Hey, uh, how many of y'all
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  are from Nashville. Dang, that's it, So the rest of y'all are
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  visiting. Thank you for taking the time. Thank you for taking the time
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  out. We appreciate you'all being here very much. Winnati, it's Cincinnati from
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  that is insane. That's me. Northern Kentucky. Wait where are you from?
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  It are you from Northern Kentucky? No? Fort Thomas I used to
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  live in. Where did I live? Fort Mitchell? You a only know?
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  I know, you only know if we appreciate your guys conversation. But
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  there's a room full of people that don't care. Okay, we love you
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  for it again. My name is Wayne d. She is Tay Hamilton,
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  ladies and gentlemen, I want you to be as loud as you're gonna be
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  on your whole vacation, as you make noise for Carly Pearce