Careless (Commentary)

The next one that we're gonna talk about is careless
And first of all I love the double word play in this song
I love careless as in reckless but then as a woman
Who's finally found the strength to walk away and could care less
Uh, so was that something that you went into writing the song
With that in your mind, like let's see if we can play on words
Or what inspired the song?

I remember this day very vividly
Emily Shackelton, she's a songwriter, Nashville
She co-wrote "Every Little Thing" with busbee and I
And I think everybody's heard me talk about
She's been writing with me for about five years now
So she is my go-to-girl writer and it was just she and I that day
We sat down and we were kind of weren't feeling it, but
We ordered Panera and sat there for a while, and
She started playing this thing on the piano on her little keyboard
And I was like, "Oh, I love that"

And she had this line, "The boy who cried love"
And I was like wow that is really awesome
And that song fell out in 45 minutes
We just started kinda singing it
And then the play on words as soon as we had the care less, careless thing
It just fell out, and we were like, "Huh, that might be too good to be true that it's
Maybe it's a bad song, we don't know", because, how did it come out that fast?

Uhm, but that was such a fun and, and live that song is fun to play
Well, yeah, and I would imagine that the response
Once people really begin to grasp the lyrics
Because I mean, in-in a way it's such an empowering song because it's like
Alright I finally have gathered my strength and I see through you
I'm not dealing with this anymore, uhm
And sort of a liberating and empowering song

Yeah, I think that every girl has been there
Where you keep going back to this guy even though, you know
You know he's reckless and bad and no good for you
And that moment where you can really stand up and say
"You know I'm not mad at you but I just, I
I literally could care less"
That's kinda like the ultimate revenge in my opinion

Well and you know it's interesting, I was thinking, uhm, there's a saying that I love
And it says, "The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference" (yeah)
Because it's just like, if there's hate, there's still emotion and there's still feeling
And once you just stop caring (yup), then that's the opposite of love
So let's go ahead and let everybody hear it
It's called "Careless" from Carly Pearce on Big Machine Radio