Every time a fan plays a Carly Pearce song or sees her perform live, they’re watching her live her childhood dream. When she was a teenager, she convinced her parents to move from Kentucky to Tennessee so she could perform at Dollywood. This put her on the path to being an award-winning country singer/songwriter. After capturing her childhood dream, the “Diamondback” singer decided to face a childhood fear by riding the Tower of Terror at Disney World.
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Yesterday (November 4), took to social media to share her experience. “I’m at Hollywood Studios at Disney World,” she said in the video. “When I was 11, the last time I was here, I was too afraid to ride the Tower of Terror. So, we’re going to face a fear. Let’s go,” she added. The video then cuts to her on the ride asking, “Like, are we just going to drop out of nowhere?” The rest of the video sees Pearce screaming in fear as the ride drops. “Who knew I was a screamer?” she wrote in the post’s caption. Watch the clip below but do so at low volume if you’re using headphones.
The Tower of Terror lifts riders 130 feet in the air before dropping at an astonishing 39 miles per hour. During the fall, riders experience a G-force of 1.3. In short, Pearce had every right to be frightened on the ride.
Carly Pearce Shares What People Get Wrong About Her
Carly Pearce’s breakthrough album 29: Written in Stone chronicled her divorce from Michael Ray. Her most recent album, Hummingbird saw her writing songs about being healed. However, it also included a few songs about heartache and breakups. This has led some fans to pigeonhole the Kentucky native. This, she said, is something that many people get wrong about her.
Recently Pearce appeared on The Squeeze podcast. During her conversation with Taylor Lautner and his wife Taylor Lautner, she revealed the most misunderstood thing about her. “I don’t know if I’ve ever been able to say this,” she began. She added that people think “that I don’t know how to be in a relationship and I only write music about my messed up relationships. That is so not true,” she explained. “I think love is so beautiful, and I know that I want that and desire that,” Pearce added.
“A lot of us write about the same stuff. It just seems to be kind of a stigma that has hung over me because somebody was able to attach a name to my songs. And I’m so much more than that,” she said.
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