Carly Pearce and the two lead actors in her “We Don’t Fight Anymore” music video — Lucy Hale and Shiloh Fernandez — delved into the story behind the captivating heartache collaboration Pearce released with Chris Stapleton earlier this year. The two Kentucky-born singer-songwriters joined forces to tell a powerful story about a relationship that’s grown stale and indifferent.
Pearce premiered a fiery music video shortly after debuting the duet with Stapleton, featuring Hale and Fernandez. The video depicts a distant couple, avoiding speaking or making eye contact with one another as Pearce sings the stunning ballad in a flowing white dress, surrounded by candles.
“I wrote this song, and what I wanted it to be, you know, we go through relationships and I think the worst place that you can get to is a place of indifference. I really didn’t want the music video to really tell much else except that moment in time of (a relationship),” Pearce explained in the new behind-the-scenes video.
Hale echoed Pearce, sharing that the video portrays “the last layer of a failed relationship,” as each partner avoids one another without confrontation, arguing or tears. She and Fernandez “are never looking at each other, we’re always kind of just missing each other’s eyes… We’re just constantly avoiding each other.”
“I think we’ve all been in a situation where you know something’s died or over, or is close to the end, and can’t really muster up the words to sort of stay or go, or the actions to stay or go,” Fernandez said. He added later, “we feel bad for these people who are sort of stuck in this loveless relationship and don’t know how to move forward one way or the other.”
Hale said the end of the video offers “closure” as she and Fernandez finally meet one another’s eyes as the house burns to the ground. Pearce said in the behind-the-scenes video that the song will hopefully save some relationships, though it could also address “the elephant in the room” in others.
“Sh*t’s goin’ down,” Pearce said in the behind-the-scenes video of the ballad’s fiery ending. “I’ve never got to burn a house down in a video.”
Watch the behind-the-scenes look here, and watch the full music video again below.