Erin Kirby knew precisely the track she wished to jot down, however she wasn’t certain she knew precisely what the track title must be.
“I really had a very completely different title in my cellphone after I first had the thought for the track,” Kirby, 20, tells PEOPLE concerning the beginnings of her new single “Leaving Eyes.” “I used to be going to name it ‘Do not Grieve Trigger He Ain’t Going to Go away.’ I had made the choice that might be the title.”
However as per normal for artistic sorts, the Georgia native discovered herself woke up at 4 within the morning quickly after with the nagging feeling that the title she had tucked secure into her cellphone wasn’t fairly proper.
“I knew I had a session developing with [songwriters] Danny Rader and Adam Hambrick,” remembers Kirby, who notably collaborated with Kameron Marlowe on his viral track “I Can Lie (The Fact Is).” “And after I got here in that day, I pitched my concept and so they had been all for it, besides they mentioned, ‘Let’s name it “Leaving Eyes.”‘ And it was good.”
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Good, actually, as a result of “Leaving Eyes” tells an all-too-familiar story.
“I really feel like all people’s been on this place of feeling envious of this new woman in your ex-boyfriend that you simply nonetheless love a lot,” says Kirby of the emotional spine of the oh-so-relatable track, whose music video premieres solely on PEOPLE. “However on the identical time, if you love somebody a lot, you might be very completely satisfied to see them so completely satisfied.”
In the identical vein, “Leaving Eyes” tells a sure story of woman energy, the place ladies have come accustomed to look out for one another, particularly with regards to issues of affection.
“I do know that plenty of my buddies have felt that approach, mainly asking themselves, ‘Is that is all too good to be true?'” displays Kirby, who at present splits her time between Tennessee and Georgia. “When is that this going to go unsuitable? When is he going to interrupt my coronary heart? And typically I see my buddies and I am like, ‘He is not, he loves you a lot.’ All the pieces is accurately, and so they get married, and I am so stoked for them.”
She lets out amusing, as Kirby appears to sound a bit envious herself of her pal’s nuptials. “I do know that I am an overthinker,” she says. “I positively assume a bit an excessive amount of in some relationships.”
It’s a trait she appears to share with a lot of her followers. “They name us the anxious technology or one thing,” Kirby remarks. “Any perhaps they’re proper.”
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Granted, Kirby seems to be something however anxious within the music video for “Leaving Eyes,” as the previous pageant woman exhibits off a magnificence and confidence that appears to point that the nation music stardom that might very effectively await her received’t go and hassle her one bit.
“I really like the digicam,” she admits with amusing. “I hate saying that, however yeah, I do love the digicam. I began in pageantry, so we had been consistently in entrance of the digicam or on the stage or getting photograph shoots finished. I feel that’s what made me so snug in entrance of the digicam that now it is just like the little pageant woman Erin is coming again out once more.”
However, Kirby says she wished the music video for “Leaving Eyes” to remain a bit on the subdued facet to make sure the emotional lyrics of the track took heart stage.
“That was very a lot the plan,” explains Kirby. “After I first made a Pinterest board to associate with the track, I simply saved selecting issues that had been quite simple when it got here to the outfits, the coloring, the whole lot. And after I take into consideration this visible, it jogs my memory of an Adele sort of visible as a result of her songs are so sturdy and there is a lot story there that the video simply pairs effectively with it in a approach that it would not take away from the track.”
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It is a eager artistic sense for a younger girl who hasn’t even hit the authorized consuming age. However she can be a younger girl who has at all times been known as an outdated soul.
“After I first began singing, all I’d ever sing was James Brown or Nina Simone,” Kirby recollects. “After which after I fell in love with nation, I cherished outdated nation. I cherished Keith Whitley and Hank Williams Jr. I really feel like this music is what has formed me into the outdated soul that I’m now.”
And she or he’s an outdated soul that simply is perhaps in love proper now.
“I am simply going to say that perhaps there may be somebody that I really feel does not have ‘leaving eyes,'” Kirby teases. “We are going to simply have to attend and see.”
