Kimberly Perry on ‘Bloom’ EP: “The Most Transparent Writing I’ve Done”

On her new EP, Bloom , Kimberly Perry offers an intimate portrait of her life through five gorgeous songs that prove she still has the capability to write a compelling country song. Introducing the project with “ If I Die Young Pt. 2 ,” Perry is honest about a lot of life she’s lived since writing the original “If I Die Young,” which helped make The Band Perry a superstar act in country music more than a decade ago. Videos by American Songwriter Lauren Alaina Makes A TRUE Country Record The Band Perry has since gone on hiatus, but Perry is striking out on her own. In a Q&A with American Songwriter, Perry opens up about her vulnerable songwriting process, the love song she wrote for her husband Johnny Costello, and why she’s excited to sing these songs with fans. American Songwriter (AS): You named the EP Bloom, which seems very reflective of where you’re at. Talk about where that title came from and what that word means to you. Kimberly Perry (KP): Everything is blooming, all at the same time music is blooming. I have a baby, which also felt like a very appropriate thing. He’s here, so we need to acknowledge him in this whole process. But it really came from the line in “If I Die Young [Pt. 2],” I’ve had time to bloom . And I do think that’s a combination of outlasting the process and letting things unfold for us as individuals and humans, but also creating the space to be able to have things grow. There’s some songs like “Cry at Your Funeral,” “Burn the House Down” that speak to a lot of intrinsic relationships and environments changing for me that I was living in real time over the last year and a half. While sometimes those moments feel tumultuous, I was also very aware that this is happening to create space for all the things to come – family to grow, music to grow. And so the Bloom project is really, I think, the most transparent lyric writing that I’ve done, because […]

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