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Carly Pearce remembered sliding into Morgane Stapleton’s DMs to ask permission to team up with her husband, Chris Stapleton, on “We Don’t Fight Anymore” during her new interview on The Jennifer Hudson Show.
Jennifer Hudson gushed that Pearce “got to work with one of my absolute favorites,” whom Pearce dubbed “one of the greatest vocalists of all time.” Both artists recalled their reaction to Stapleton’s powerful rendition of the National Anthem at the Super Bowl earlier this year. Hudson said “you should’ve saw me hollering,” and Pearce remembered “crying” during the moving performance.
Pearce wrote “We Don’t Fight Anymore,” a heartache ballad as she readies her next era of music, about a year before she asked fellow Kentucky-born singer-songwriter Stapleton to join her on it. Pearce said hat she “DM’d his wife on Instagram…to see if, maybe, he would sing the song with me because I feel like to get to Chris, you got to go to the wife.”
Pearce released the collaboration earlier this year, followed by a fiery music video starring Lucy Hale and Shiloh Fernandez. She previously shared that the song embodies a place that I think, if we are honest with ourselves, we’ve all felt at some point in a relationship. The distance that feels heartbreaking, yet you’re also indifferent.”
Watch Pearce’s interview clip on The Jennifer Hudson Show here, and listen to “We Don’t Fight Anymore” again below: