Cassadee Pope "I Wish I Could Break Your Heart"

Cassadee Pope breaks literal hearts in her Valentine's Day-themed visual for "I Wish I Could Break Your Heart," the second single and the follow-up to her breakthrough debut single "Wasting All These Tears," off her solo debut album "Frame by Frame." While "Wasting All These Tears" was a somber, country-pop ballad, Pope's latest subject matter isn't much happier and is another catchy pop/rocker right in Pope's wheelhouse. In this song, she's frustrated she can't return the hurt a lover bestows upon her, but she sounds much peppier.
In this country-rock mid-tempo, the former Hey Monday frontwoman laments she just can't be a bad girl. She's too sweet as she sings on the chorus "Well the truth is that I never ever wanna hurt you baby, but it'd be nice to know that I could... I wish I could break, I wish I could break your heart." In an interview with Radio.com earlier this year, Pope explained why she first gravitated to the song, co-penned by country songstress  Gordie Sampson, Ashley Monroe and Jon Green. "It's a positive song but its kind of got this snarky, interesting negative side. It's not make or break. It's not a heartbroken song where the world's going to end but it's a song about loving somebody."
"It's a great relationship; you're happy but you know that they could break you so easily and you feel so vulnerable. And you feel too weak compared to them and you wish if you could see if you could break them if they would fall apart. If they would fall to pieces. I think that's a really cool and honest lyric. It's an outside song and I just love what it says." Pope said the song is very similar to Faith Hill's 2002 hit, "Cry." "You just wish that that other person would feel a little more and you wish that you could almost make them cry, just to know that you have that power over them," she explained. "But, it's overall a very happy song. I love the silly, playful undertone that that song has."
In the Wes Edwards-directed video, 'The Voice' Season 3 champ looks beautiful in a variety of outfits while surrounded by glass hearts as she shakes things up channeling her inner Faith Hill with elegant costumes and the desire to make you cry. Pope gets her titular wish in the video that sees the Florida stunner singing in a series of Valentine's Day-themed sets. She even sings inside a jumbo electronic heart that looks like the type of thing Cher would pop out of on tour. By the video's end, she breaks an actual heart even though it's a dinky little glowing thing that shatters under her heel. Watch Pope wailing in a wedding dress below!

Cassadee Pope debuts "Wasting All These Tears"

Cassadee Pope has released her debut music video for her debut country-rock track, "Wasting All These Tears," the lead single of Pope's upcoming untitled debut studio album, which slated for release in October via Republic Nashville. The Voice has proven more consistently entertaining than its competition, but the show has yet to produce any breakout stars from its winners' roster until Pope? We know she's no slouch in the vocal department and this tune gives 23-year-old singer a big, challenging melody to show off her range.
The Season 3 winner's new single "Wasting All These Tears," is an instantaneous monster of a pop-country midtempo ballad, delivering shades of Avril Lavigne's "I'm With You" with the melodramatic production of Carrie Underwood's "Two Black Cadillacs." Lyrically, it's from the perspective of a wronged woman who has put herself through the wringer over a guy and has finally decided that it's time to get over him already, and it's magic - the details are finely wrought and the chorus melody soars majestically.
While enjoyable, "Wasting All These Tears" exemplifies the difference between a pop-country song and a country song performed by a pop singer. It’s clearly a modern melodramatic pop-country masterpiece, and there's nothing here that says that it couldn't crossover into the pop realm, something Pope and her label likely had in their minds all along. Still, despite the crossover nature of the track, Pope delivers a strong sense of attitude and connects with the lyrics and that's more than enough to suggest the birth of a potential star.
Filmed in Nashville's Germantown neighborhood by director Brian Lazzaro, the clip stays true to the song lyrics with the storyline based around surviving a painful discovery, swinging from carefree scenes of young love to the breathless moments of deceit. It’s basically glamor flashbacks to Pope and her ex boyfriend in a swing, really happy, but eventually, discovering her boyfriend cheating with a girl, which feels spectacularly anticlimactic. The clip then shows she performs with her band in a warehouse and ends with Pope sitting in a swing while the rain still falling. Throughout the video, Pope channels her frustration, anger, sadness, and strength at the camera, making an impressive music video debut!