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Carly Pearce Found Latest Video For ‘Closer To You’ With Michael Ray ‘Very Easy’

Carly Pearce looks like she’s in love in her latest video “Closer To You” and there’s good reason, she is in love with her video co-star Michael Ray. Carly shared,…

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Carly Pearce looks like she's in love in her latest video "Closer To You" and there's good reason, she is in love with her video co-star Michael Ray.

Carly shared, “I didn’t feel like I could have anybody else in the ‘Closer to You’ video just because it’s all about him. I got engaged and I don’t think anybody wanted me to be intimate with another guy, and I certainly didn’t. That felt weird. It was a lot easier to be with him verses maybe the guy I was in ‘Every Little Thing’ music video with. That was a little awkward because we jumped into bed right after we met."

She continued, "But it was interesting to kind of tap into acting with him and trying to make sure that we were playing the right characters for the video. But he’s so fun and funny that it was very easy to be happy and laugh.”

The couple are set to marry sometime this summer, but are keeping the actual wedding date under wraps.

-Nancy Brooks

Nancy Brooks has been working in the country music industry for almost 30 years. She has interviewed pretty much any country star you can think of. In the late 1990s, she started working with Dolly Parton. And yes, Nancy reports that Parton is as sweet as you would think. She loves her life in country music and has been backstage at every CMA Awards show since the late 1990s. Many of her stories are from her one-on-one interviews. She was there at the beginning of the incredible careers of many music superstars today, including Taylor Swift, Shania Twain, and Blake Shelton, and has interviewed them multiple times throughout the years.