Carly Pearce’s stunning video for “What He Didn’t Do” features some beautiful underwater shots that appear to be Carly swimming toward the surface of the water in a white flowing dress. Some people wondered if that was actually Carly underwater, and if so, how hard were those scenes to shoot.

“It was me. The whole video is me. I underestimated how difficult it would be to swim underwater with a large wedding dress on. It was really, really crazy to feel the weight of that, but I feel like it almost helped me to get it into the character some. It scared me because at times, you know, you think, oh, I know how to swim. But when you feel that kind of weight really pulling you down it’s quite scary. But those scenes of me coming out of the water, I mean, if you look, my dress is broken on the sleeve, and that was actually what really happened just because of the wear and tear of what I was doing. But that was one of the harder things I think I’ve done, physically, and honestly, the mental game of that was pretty hard.”

The video for “What He Didn’t Do” was recently nominated for Female Video of the Year at the CMT Music Awards. Carly is also nominated with LeAnn Rimes and Ashley McBryde for their performance of “One Way Ticket” during CMT Crossroads: LeAnn Rimes & Friends. The awards are fan voted, and voting is open now at vote.CMT.com.