Erin Kirby Shares ‘Leaving Eyes’ Music Video Premiere (Unique)

Erin Kirby knew precisely the music she needed to put in writing, however she wasn’t positive she knew precisely what the music title ought to be.

“I really had a very completely different title in my cellphone once I first had the concept for the music,” 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 will be the title.”

However as per standard for artistic varieties, the Georgia native discovered herself woke up at 4 within the morning quickly after with the nagging feeling that the title she had tucked protected into her cellphone wasn’t fairly proper. 

“I knew I had a session arising with [songwriters] Danny Rader and Adam Hambrick,” remembers Kirby, who notably collaborated with Kameron Marlowe on his viral music “I Can Lie (The Fact Is).” “And once I got here in that day, I pitched my thought they usually have been all for it, besides they mentioned, ‘Let’s name it “Leaving Eyes.”‘ And it was excellent.”

Good, actually, as a result of “Leaving Eyes” tells an all-too-familiar story.

“I really feel like everyone’s been on this place of feeling envious of this new woman on your ex-boyfriend that you just nonetheless love a lot,” says Kirby of the emotional spine of the oh-so-relatable music, whose music video premieres solely on PEOPLE. “However on the similar time, once you love somebody a lot, you might be very completely happy to see them so completely happy.”

In the identical vein, “Leaving Eyes” tells a sure story of woman energy, the place girls have come accustomed to look out for one another, particularly in terms of issues of affection. 

“I do know that a number of my mates have felt that approach, principally asking themselves, ‘Is that is all too good to be true?'” displays Kirby, who at the moment splits her time between Tennessee and Georgia. “When is that this going to go incorrect? When is he going to interrupt my coronary heart? And generally I see my mates and I am like, ‘He isn’t, he loves you a lot.’ Every part is correctly, they usually get married, and I am so stoked for them.”

She lets out fun, 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 suppose just a little 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.”

Granted, Kirby appears to be like something however anxious within the music video for “Leaving Eyes,” as the previous pageant woman reveals off a magnificence and confidence that appears to point that the nation music stardom that would very effectively await her gained’t go and hassle her one bit.

“I like the digital camera,” she admits with fun. “I hate saying that, however yeah, I do love the digital camera. I began in pageantry, so we have been always in entrance of the digital camera or on the stage or getting photograph shoots accomplished. I feel that’s what made me so comfy in entrance of the digital camera that now it is just like the little pageant woman Erin is coming again out once more.”

Nonetheless, Kirby says she needed the music video for “Leaving Eyes” to remain a bit on the subdued aspect to make sure the emotional lyrics of the music took heart stage.

“That was very a lot the plan,” explains Kirby. “Once I first made a Pinterest board to associate with the music, I simply stored choosing issues that have been quite simple when it got here to the outfits, the coloring, every little thing. And once I take into consideration this visible, it jogs my memory of an Adele type 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 does not take away from the music.”

It is a eager artistic sense for a younger lady who hasn’t even hit the authorized ingesting age. However she can also be a younger lady who has all the time been known as an previous soul.

“Once I first began singing, all I might ever sing was James Brown or Nina Simone,” Kirby recollects. “After which once I fell in love with nation, I cherished previous nation. I cherished Keith Whitley and Hank Williams Jr. I really feel like this music is what has formed me into the previous soul that I’m now.”

And he or she’s an previous soul that simply is likely to be 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’ll simply have to attend and see.”