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Carly Pearce & Chris Stapleton Talk Their Track "We Don't Fight Anymore," Their Friendship, Being Honest in Their Music & More
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11/9/2023
Carly Pearce & Chris Stapleton chatted with Billboard on the red carpet of the 2023 CMA Awards.
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--We are here with Carly Pierce. How's it going so far tonight?
00:02
--It's great! Just getting started.
00:04
--Have you run into any friends? I know you have a friend who's a few steps behind you on the
00:07
carpet right now.
00:08
--Yes. Oh my gosh. I mean, yes. There's so many people here. We're all pretty close.
00:12
--Yeah. So, performing with Chris Stapleton, what can you tell us about that
00:17
performance?
00:19
--I just think it's going to be a moment, and I feel confident in that. I think
00:24
people are gonna really feel what the essence of the song is.
00:27
--Yeah. What is that relationship between the two of you been like and how is it
00:31
grown?
00:32
--You know, I haven't spent much time with Chris, but I love him. I love his
00:36
wife. I know his wife well. She's an amazing singer and just an amazing
00:40
person. But you know we're two Kentucky kids that had big dreams, and it's cool
00:45
to get to come together like this.
00:47
--Definitely. That's what this night is all about, right? Bringing people together.
00:49
I did overhear you have some new music on the way, right? Okay. Is there a date
00:55
yet or is there we looking at next year?
00:57
--Next year for sure. No date, but early next year.
01:00
--Is there, if you had to put one vibe on it, is there a word that you could tell
01:03
us?
01:04
--I mean this sounds so predictable coming from me, but honest because that's
01:09
just who I am.
01:10
--And that's what we want, so it works out. What is it like in the studio for
01:14
you? Do you have to have certain candles, certain setting? Like how do you really
01:17
tap into that honesty?
01:19
--I like dim lights. I like a vibe. Candles, you know? Really just that. Just
01:26
like setting a mood. I need like mood light.
01:28
--Okay. We can work with that. Obviously we've seen the success of your song with
01:32
Chris. Are there other artists that you would want to get on this album?
01:36
--I feel like so many people ask me that because I've done so many collaborations,
01:39
but like Chris was my dream, so I really don't know where I go from here.
01:43
--Standing right behind us right now.
01:44
--Uh oh.
01:45
--Uh oh.
01:46
--Chris, we were just talking about you if you want to hop in.
01:51
She said working with you was her dream.
01:52
Yeah, do you want to come in?
01:55
--Yeah.
01:56
--How's it going, Chris?
01:57
--Good. How are you doing?
01:58
--I'm doing great. We truly, thank you. I like the hat. We really were just talking
02:01
about you. She said working with you is her dream.
02:03
--Well...
02:04
--He knows this.
02:05
--No, wait. Don't leave. I shouldn't have said it.
02:09
--Well, thank you.
02:11
But it's been such a wonderful thing to hear her sing. She's such a phenomenal
02:15
singer and such a beautiful timbre in her voice and always so spot-on. And
02:21
that's, you know, sometimes a rare thing and when people sound as good or better
02:26
than the records that they make. And that's that's what we have right here. So
02:31
it's wonderful to get to collaborate with someone who's so good in that way.
02:39
--I mean the two of you, like you said, honest songwriting. You're gonna find
02:41
each other, you know? That's the people that you draw.
02:43
--Kentucky knows Kentucky.
02:44
--That's right. And we're from Kentucky. So that's, you know, we've got to have
02:49
each other's backs.
02:51
--Of course. You have an album coming out this Friday.
02:55
Have you heard any of it that we have not?
02:57
--No, not that y'all haven't, but I will be listening.
03:00
--As will I. What can you tell us? I know it's a few days away, but we're eager.
03:06
--It's a record.
03:07
--That is that is truly an exclusive.
03:10
--I'm ruining your interview at the moment. Yes. No, it's I think there's probably
03:16
some moments on there that will feel surprising to people, and maybe some
03:22
things that might feel like things we haven't done before. So that's I think
03:25
that's exciting for us to think about and kind of fun, but you know records are
03:30
always kind of like a snapshot of the moment that you're in, and that's and
03:33
that's what this is.
03:34
--Yeah. We were just talking about your album coming out next year. Do you feel
03:38
like whatever we're about to hear is a specific time in your life?
03:42
--Snapshots is a really good way, especially as a songwriter. It's like you're
03:44
living, you're living, you take time to live, and then you get that out, and then
03:48
you go again. It's like a yearbook.
03:50
--And then by the time do that we get it, do you feel like that was a
03:54
different version of you that it's in the past, or do you sort of bring it with
03:56
you into the future?
03:58
--Ask that question again. That was a good one.
04:01
--Sorry, that was philosophical. I was asking you know by the time that we get the
04:05
albums the snapshots of your lives, it's a bit removed from when you wrote them,
04:09
so do you feel like it's a different version of you?
04:12
--Well, I think songs have different meanings over time, and in my case, I've
04:18
like for instance on this record there's a song that's 22, 23 years old on this
04:23
record. There's songs that are 10 or 12 years old on this record, and there's
04:26
songs that are brand new that we wrote in the studio. So, they really get meaning
04:32
when they go out into the world and people hear them, and that's when songs
04:36
get meaning. That's what my philosophy of that is. Like they're gonna mean
04:40
something to me in the moment. They were they meant something to me in the moment
04:43
that I wrote them, but they definitely mean something different if I record
04:46
them many years later, and they'll mean something even different to the people
04:49
when they hear them. So, that's the beauty of songs, and that will evolve over time
04:54
always.
04:56
--Putting both of you on the spot, favorite song of one another's? Do you
05:00
have one that comes to mind?
05:02
--The one we do together!
05:04
--Obviously!
05:06
--Either way, though.
05:08
--I'm asking you, or...
05:10
--Just goes through the discography.
05:12
All right, and just the last one. I know you need to get in there. You said you're
05:15
close with his wife. Do the three of you have a memory together that just brought
05:20
the most laughs, or was just something that you kind of remember forever?
05:23
--Well, here's the thing. We didn't know each other that well before this.
05:26
--I knew her really more than I knew him. I've been like a fan of Morgan's voice for years in Nashville.
05:32
She's incredible, and I used to hear her voice on so many demos just in and out
05:36
of Nashville. But yeah, I feel like we just knew each other backstage, so this
05:39
is like like me DMing her is hilarious because I just shot my shot.
05:43
--That's how the friendship happened?
05:45
--Yeah. --Wow.
05:47
Can I ask you if you DM'd anybody and it's paid off?
05:49
--I wouldn't know how to do that, so...
05:53
--I believe you!
05:55
--It's absolutely true, so there you go.
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