The breathtaking track “Child Mama” tells Mary Sarah’s story in some ways, however it’s a narrative she didn’t create.
“I’m not a author on this track,” Mary Sarah, 29, tells PEOPLE in a latest interview from Nashville. “That is why I do know it was completely heaven despatched.”
As a result of again in 2022, songwriters Nate Kenyon, Jesse Lee and Blake Bollinger unknowingly wrote the story of Mary Sarah and the whole U-turn her life had taken simply two years earlier than.
“Mitch [Clark] and I had been collectively for about 4 months once we discovered we had been pregnant,” Mary Sarah remembers of what her and her singer-songwriter boyfriend’s life seemed like again in 2020, when she obtained the life-altering information she was pregnant with their now 3-year-old daughter Avalyn Mae. “It wasn’t like this factor that was deliberate and tremendous thrilling. It was a shock to each of our households and to us. For me, I had combined feelings. It was very bittersweet at the moment.”
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And in 2022, as she struggled with the thought of writing a track in regards to the curler coaster that’s motherhood, The Voice Season 10 contestant found the unforgettable track “Child Mama.”
“As quickly as they performed the primary verse for me, I checked out my producer [Bart Butler] and audibly heard God say to me, ‘You didn’t have to jot down it as a result of I used to be writing for you,'” she remembers. “It is simply a kind of songs that I’ve at all times felt has had such an even bigger which means to it. There are just a few issues in life the place you simply do not feel outfitted for it. You are like, ‘I would like your assist.'”
It is a track that also can hit Mary Sarah straight within the coronary heart.
“This track will get me so emotional, even simply placing it out proper now,” she says with a slight snort. “Every single day I’m crying as a result of one thing new and delightful is occurring due to this track. It has been such a blessing, truthfully, to listen to everybody else’s tales.”
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However now, it is her story that performs out within the music video for “Child Mama,” premiering solely on PEOPLE and that includes the adorableness of the little lady they prefer to name Avy Mae.
“She’s decided, sensible and so lovely,” Mary Sarah raves about her toddler. “I truthfully really feel like there are days the place she’s completely educating me. I do not need to get in the best way of her. I need her to be her and bloom. And he or she is. She brings a lot mild.”
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However Mary Sarah says she had no plan to have her daughter within the music video. However director Chrissy Yoder had different plans.
“There’s this second within the video the place I see Avalyn get out of the automotive, and Chrissy simply caught the second,” she says. “It’s virtually overwhelming. I can not imagine that truthfully, at a sure level in my life, what I believed may wreck my profession is about to be one of the best factor I’ll ever be given. I’ve turn out to be a greater individual, a greater artist, a greater every little thing due to changing into a mother. I like who I’m now.”
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The music video additionally options little moments of bliss from the previous few years, together with the valuable time when she was anticipating her child lady.
“Throughout COVID, no person actually noticed me ever,” Mary Sarah remembers. “Nobody obtained to see that a part of my life. Nobody ever actually obtained to see me pregnant. So, as an artist, I felt like I wished to share that with everyone.”
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The video additionally reminds Mary Sarah simply how in love she is with not solely — Avalyn Mae, but additionally the person that has been by her facet by means of all of it.
“There’s not a whole lot of phrases that I may actually say to embody how grateful I’m and the way huge God is, as a result of we had been 4 months right into a relationship. It was so early on, it actually may have gone both means,” she concludes. “However Mitch is actually one of the best dad I may have ever requested for and a fantastic human being. And his coronary heart is so huge. Every single day, he’s my rock.”
