Carly Pearce's new duet with Lee Brice, "I Hope You're Happy Now," is based on her real life experience of falling out of love with a previous boyfriend, and it's a song she'd started the writing process with Luke Combs and Jonathan Singleton. But an additional writer was added toward the end of the process that made things a little awkward.
"When I found out that Randy Montana was a part of finishing the song, I kind of freaked out a little bit because it took it too personal[ly]," she confesses in a statement from her label. "He's friends with this person [who inspired the song], and that scared me slightly."
But then she had an epiphany. "t I think as a songwriter and as an artist, you're taking the chance that the person that you are writing songs about, if you're gonna go this deep with it, they're gonna hear them. And I decided to kind of put caution to the wind and have no boundaries and really just write it the way that it happened.
"And I'm sure that he's probably heard it, but I hope that it brought him some sort of closure, because he never heard from me in a way that I feel like maybe this song has given him. I do wish him well and hope that he is happy now."
Carly will perform at Tailgate Fest this August at Auto Club Speedway.
