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This is Behind the Rose, where Bachelor Nation needs country music and everything in between.

Here's your host, Blake Horsman.

Hey, everyone, thanks for joining us for another episode of Behind the Rose.

I'm your host, Blake Horsman, joined by my buddy, Eric Bradley.

Hello.

And today we have the four-time CMA nominee for new artists of the year,

song of the year, musical events of the year, and music video of the year.

Carly Pierce, did I miss anything

there, Carly? No, I just was like, can you say it again? No, I'm joking. Did you save anything

for the rest of them? Oh my gosh, trust me. I still like can't even, that doesn't compute right to me,

but I'll take it. No, it's awesome. I mean, professionally, you're 2020,

I mean, professionally quarantine has been actually pretty good for you. It has, which I'm really

grateful for. Yeah. Yeah, very grateful. I mean, how has it been? How has it changed? I mean,

obviously, you know, there's no live concert or any of that kind of stuff, but how has it

changed the way you write music and create the album and your, you obviously, you know, there's no live concert or any of that kind of stuff, but how has it changed the way you write music and create the album and your single that just

came out next girl? Like, how did that impact? How did quarantine impact all that?

I think for the first time since I've done this professionally, so since 2017, I've had the time to just completely focus on songwriting

and focus on music, which is ironic that I say that because really the whole reason that

any of us get to do this on a massive scale is because of the song it all begins with the song but I feel

like that gets overlooked sometimes just with our touring skills and um just other obligations so it's

been nice to just kind of completely focus on music and I think it's made me a better artist

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