Carly Pearce rocked empowering breakup songs ā ranging from heartfelt ballads to āsassyā anthems ā when she boldly took the Daytime Stage at the 2022 iHeartRadio Music Festival in Las Vegas, Nevada. The powerhouse singer-songwriter kicked off her set with the song that she previously called her ālittle sassy moment,ā a high-energy song that Pearce parting ways with all of the belongings she once shared with her ex ā except the diamond ring:
āKeep the house, keep the truck/ Go downtown, get too drunk/ Kiss a one-night stand with a butterfly on her back/ Take the bed where you used to lie/ Keep the friends I never liked/ And the happy ever after welcome mat/ But you ain't gonna get this diamond back/ No, never ever gettin' this diamond back/ You can keep the dog and the Cadillac/ But you ain't gonna get this diamond back.ā
Pearceās set consisted almost entirely of fan-favorite tracks from her smash-hit album, 29: Written in Stone, which released last year. The 15-track project featured deeply personal ā and, for many of Pearceās listeners, deeply relatable ā songs about experiencing heartbreak and unexpected twists and turns in life. Pearce, now 32, previously told iHeartRadio, in part, that 29 āopened my eyes to a lot of things in life. ā¦I feel wiser because of the really hard stuff that I went through.ā
Fresh off her first headlining tour in Europe, the reigning ACM Female Artist of the Year took the Daytime Stage in Vegas and played everything from the emotional award-winning song, āNever Wanted To Be That Girl,ā a ballad she duets with fellow country star Ashley McBryde (which is nominated for four CMA awards), to the dance-worthy āNext Girl,ā which serves as a much-needed āheads upā to the next girl who encounters her ex.
Pearce also performed her latest radio single, āWhat He Didnāt Do,ā which countless crowds have loved as they powerfully sing every word during concerts. Pearce wrote in her captionĀ on Instagram, after a few days of teasing the single:
āLife goes on. You KNOW that when youāre reelingā¦feeling like the fool and so hurt... but then thereās a moment when those emotions start to clear. Thatās when you look in the mirror and you ask yourself what happened and try to learn from your mistakes. Thatās where āWhat He Didnāt Doā came from. To me, itās really a song of hope and trying to get smarter before moving forward.ā
Pearce closed her iHeartRadio Music Festival Daytime Stage set with a rendition of āI Hope Youāre Happy Now,ā her smash-hit collaboration with Lee Brice: āI hope you find what you were looking for/ I hope your heart ain't hurting anymore/ And you get moving on, all figured out/ And you don't hate me somehow/ āCause I hope you're happy now.ā
In case you missed it, or just want to re-live all of the amazing performances, The CW will air a two-night television special on October 7thĀ and October 8thĀ from 8pm-10pm ET.