Carly Pearce has arrived to the CMA Awards already a winner! The 5-time nominated songstress took location Musical Event of the Year for her collab with Ashley McBryde earlier adjacent stepping connected the reddish carpet astatine Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena. The “Never Wanted To Be That Girl” vocalist looked stunning successful a cleavage-baring achromatic long-sleeve gown that featured a high-slit up her leg. Carly’s hairsbreadth was pulled backmost successful a escaped up-do with pieces framing her face, and allowing a stunning brace of glittering diamond earrings to show. The Female Vocalist of the Year nominee paired her look with satin green, constituent toed heels that featured sparkling embellishments.
Carly is poised to articulation Kelsea Ballerini and Kelly Clarkson connected signifier astatine the Bridgestone Arena aboriginal successful the evening to execute their caller collab, ‘You’re Drunk, Go Home,’ from Kelsea’s caller album. “I felt that there’s immoderate sass and drama to this song,” the “Dibs” vocalist told Billboard of bringing Carly and Kelly onto the track. “So I thought, ‘Who are the women successful my beingness that are artists that person some of those things?’ Carly and I person been friends for, like, 10 years, earlier either of america had thing going connected and we’ve conscionable seen each different personally and professionally done truthful galore seasons of life. We’ve ever wanted to bash a opus unneurotic and this made sense.”
She continued, “I thought the biggest inquire I could marque is Kelly Clarkson, and I texted her that morning. She did her vocals that night.”
At rehearsals for the CMAs, Carly joked with ET that Kelsea is simply a “bad influence” connected her, saying, “she makes maine bash things that I haven’t done since I was 21.” She went connected to telephone her collaborator her “best woman successful this town.” “I emotion Kelly Clarkson. I’ve met her a fewer times, I’m a immense instrumentality of hers, truthful possibly I’m tense to beryllium singing backup with Kelly Clarkson. But it’s gonna beryllium truthful fun,” she teased of the performance. “We each are conscionable fans of each different and existent girlfriends, truthful we’re really gonna bring the sass.”
Last year, Carly look location the apical prize for Female Vocalist Of The Year, and she a contender for the grant erstwhile again, successful contention with Carrie Underwood, Ashley McBryde and Lainey Wilson. “Everybody keeps asking maine that,” she told ET astir the anticipation of taking location the grant again. “I mean, it was everything, everything, of course. It was the top infinitesimal of my beingness past twelvemonth and it’s conscionable continued to beryllium the champion twelvemonth ever, truthful this would beryllium a brainsick mode to extremity it. I mean, genuinely. I was like, ‘I conscionable privation one,’ and I retrieve getting the substance that said, ‘You got five.’ And conscionable to deliberation that I’ve made euphony that is impactful successful this mode is truthful special, that’s each I ever wanted arsenic a kid. So, it conscionable truly does consciousness crazy, I’m a small spot of a nonaccomplishment for words.”