Carly Pearce Celebrates ‘I Hope You’re Happy Now,’ Talks New Music
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Carly Pearce took some time to chat about and celebrate her second No. 1 song, “I Hope You’re Happy Now,” during a video interview earlier this week. The single, featuring Lee Brice, was co-written by Pearce, Luke Combs, Jonathan Singleton and Randy Montana, and produced by the late busbee. It was released in October 2019 and cracked the top of the charts this week. The life of the song was unusual due to the pandemic, but Pearce enjoyed watching it fly up the charts in quarantine.
“It’s been such a silver lining,” Pearce told a group of reporters. “Obviously, this has been a hard time for everybody, and it’s been an intense time for me in a lot of ways. I think that this little reminder of so much love and so much truth as to what I’m supposed to be doing has been really nice and just something that I’ve looked forward to watching.”
Pearce credits some of the song’s success to the fact that it was written from an honest and vulnerable place. The song is also special to her because it was the last one on her self-titled album that was produced by busbee, who was later diagnosed with brain cancer and passed away in September 2019. Due to his diagnosis, she revealed, he was unable to finish producing the song.
“He was going to work on it and was texting with Lee, and that was actually the night that he had the first seizure and found out that he had brain cancer,” she says. “A lot of people don’t know, and I always said if it went number one I would tell this, but Dann Huff actually came in and ghost produced the rest of Lee’s vocal because busbee was sick. That just shows you what kind of heart Dann Huff has and shows he never wanted credit for it.”
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In addition to watching the success of the single, Pearce says the pandemic has given her time to grieve the loss of busbee and that she has been “extremely creative” during this time. She also revealed that her next single won’t be from her latest album, but will be “completely new music” that will continue the traditionally-leaning country sound that is present on “I Hope You’re Happy Now.”
“I don’t know what it is,” Pearce says of the next single. “All I can tell is I have so much peace and excitement. I will tell you this: ‘I Hope You’re Happy Now’ solidified for me and I think re-reminded people that I want to be the modern country artist with the throwback, kind of vintage-y thing, and I’m going to lean hard into it.”
