Priscilla Block has learned a lot since her debut took Nashville by storm. Now the 30-year-old singer is back with her sophomore album, Things You Didn't See, letting listeners in with a vulnerable, open new effort.
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Talking with Rob + Holly during the Friday Night Takeover, Block took us inside the making of Things You Didn't See, talking about her journey from moving to Nashville at 17 to finding success, and unpacking the meaning and stories behind songs like "Couldn't Care Less."
"When I wrote 'Couldn't Care Less,' it really kind of just felt like therapy that I didn't even know I needed," Priscilla reveals. "My album was actually done last year, like it was gonna be a full different project and I was listening through to the songs and I just didn't know what was missing, but I knew something was. I realized it was my life, like it was what I was experiencing just as a human, and I wrote that song. I put pause on the record that I had and I was just like, 'I think I need to keep writing.'"
"I just felt like it was my letter to people that maybe assume that just because I'm a big personality or I'm confident or whatever that I'm like bulletproof, and the song is being vulnerable and being like, 'I actually care a lot' and I wanted to say that on this record."
"I knew it was my time to show kind of a different side and I just feel like it's my letter to anyone that maybe hasn't gotten it. It's interesting the response that I've had to it because so many people are like, 'dude, like this is my life.' I feel like people don't realize that you're human, like you're a real person. Do you know what I mean? They see the person I guess on social media."
"Obviously there's always the trolls online," Block adds. "I find new things out about myself every day, but some days those comments hurt a little bit more than they would have the day before. I think that that's the human thing in it. It's like, I might be confident, but if I see something negative, some days it really, it hurts a lot more than it maybe would have."
To hear more from Priscilla Block, check out the full conversation with Rob + Holly above.