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The road to love is never easy. Just look at all the exes Taylor Swift left in her wake on the way to getting engaged to Travis Kelce. Sometimes you have to go through a lot of wrong'uns til the right one comes along. The poignant new single from Erin Kirby, 'Nowhere Everywhere,' captures that restless feeling of being all over the bloody place before love finds you.
"'Nowhere Everywhere' is not your average love song," Erin Kirby says. "It was important to us to write a song that emitted the true feeling of finding the one - including the hard parts you go through to get there. We wanted to build that feeling by writing about how every bad date or harsh breakup or dead end that didn’t quite make sense suddenly did when that right one came along and it all clicked. We also wanted to show how you suddenly pivot and become thankful those past relationships didn’t work out because they brought you to this place you’re in now. We had a lot of fun writing this one and taking a bit of a more authentic and unique approach to a song about love."
"Thank God it never worked out, 'cause look at the place I’m in now," she sings. "I couldn’t go over or under I had to get through / Going nowhere everywhere so I could find you / it was worth all the ups and downs / Good thing I never turned around."
One of our Holler 10 Artists You Need To Know back in July last year, Erin Kirby hails from the small North Georgia town of Jasper, and since pivoting from pop to country last year she's released a string of powerful pop country power ballads including 'Pick My Own Flowers,' 'Leaving Eyes' and the Cole Goodwin duet 'Learning Lonely.' With 'Nowhere Everywhere' she blends Adele's universal emotionality with the powerhouse balladry of pop country queens of heartbreak like Carrie Underwood and Gabby Barrett as she yanks at the heartstrings of anyone who has ever taken the long way round to love.
“Fun fact about me is I did not grow up listening to country music!” she told us last year. “I grew up on pop, Motown, and old rock. The first song I ever performed was an Adele song! I found my love for country music once I got my license. I immediately connected to it because it goes along with how I grew up… dirt roads, small town, great people, and God’s grace!”
Listen to 'Nowhere Everywhere' exclusively on Holler below
'Nowhere Everywhere' is released on 29 August.