Carly Pearce and Ashley McBryde have shared the new female-directed music video for their track – Never Wanted To Be That Girl, ahead of their performance of the song at the CMA Awards on the 10th November.
Carly Pearce and Ashley McBryde have shared their intense music video for their track ‘Never Wanted to Be That Girl.’ The pair joined female and first-time director Alexa Campbell to film scenes of their parallel lives out of sync with the wrong guy. Each unassuming woman finds herself in a place she never wanted to be – both suspecting and discovering the truth about a liar. The clips captured just outside of Nashville find the two women visually reflecting as they consider their own blind spots in a painfully sobering moment.
Combining forces with co-producer Shane McAnally, they reignited the ravaged Country tradition of a hard truth cheating song. “Never Wanted To Be That Girl” is sung from the perspective of two women – the single girl thanking the guy who helped change her flat tire and the wife at home – who learn their partner is involved with someone else.
“What’s interesting about this song is we could have gone to a place of blame on the others in the love triangle, but we turned it inward. It’s unique that two women who never meet are getting burned by the same man and having the exact same feelings. We intentionally kept the chorus the same to reflect that neither wanted to be in this position,” shares Carly.
Ashley continues, “so many of us know how it is when you go back and start putting all of those pieces together. That moment when you realize the gut punch of the situation. This song isn’t really about being the other woman or even being messed around on as much as it’s about these two people who are exhibiting behaviors they normally wouldn’t – checking text messages, making excuses for why their dates are only on Tuesdays – and realizing it’s all because of the same person.”
The CMA Awards Female Vocalist of the Year nominees will perform “Never Wanted To Be That Girl” on the November 10 live broadcast. The third track from 29: WRITTEN IN STONE, which expands Carly’s original Album of the Year-nominated 29 recording to 15 songs, is climbing through the Top 30 at Country radio in the US with support from Big Machine Records and Warner Music Nashville.
For headline tickets and information on her upcoming trek with Kenny Chesney’s HERE AND NOW 2022 TOUR, visit CarlyPearce.com.
