With an Apocalypse album, a main sand excursion and a concert about La Voz, Country singer is with her success.

There is a saying in the music industry: “You have your total life to make your first album, then two days between the excursion dates to make your second. ” While he quotes me, Kelsea Ballerini is on excursion. Behind the scene, it is wrapped in a gray hoodie, a clothing grid and a white guitar. It was Valentine’s Day, and after polishing a pink suppression donut, he stops to communicate with me on the birthday of the day he replaced his career.

Exactly two years earlier, Rolling Up the Welcomme Mat had published, an EP of six thorny songs that told her divorce from singer Country Morgan Evans in details. For Ballerini, which became Tennessee, the concept of divorce felt taboo and has let an album listen even more on this issue. “I say:” Oh, boy, I’m terrified. “I fell asleep, and the next morning, I told myself:” Oh, that’s fine. People places it and hooked with that. “But it was definitely a terrifying feeling. ” He also marked a moment in the dancer basin: between the explicitly autobiographical land she has undermined, and the explosive market of country music in general, she presented a new total audience.

He now has enthusiasts in his concerts with panels that read: “I divorced. ” She warns that “I never checked to celebrate it until I know if it is something intelligent. I never need to be a cartel boy for divorce. 3 years have passed. It is no longer in the front or glamorous part.

These days, Ballerini is in a head space absolutely another. His non -public life, he says, is “unrecognizable of the way a few years ago, and thank God. ” She has been in an appointment with the actor of external banks that pursue Stokes for more than two years (at one time, he has a cameo in our interview, appearing in her locker room, and she greets him with a “salvation, love”). His recent maximum album, Pattern, is a more established subject, of which he has written games on the tour. Pieces like “Sorry mom”, sorry for her mother (she laughs she tells me that the history of gambling takes the demonstration of her mother), and “we have broken”, a non -resigned office, they are a new territory for her, informed through the adventure about therapy.

This summer, despite everything, you will have an essential inactivity time. The future album plans have not yet merged, but she says: “I intend to make more gender mixtures. It excites me. ” She would “die” to paintings with SZA. He immersed his foot in the theater, with the visitors of Dr. Odyssey last year, and is a coach this season of The Voice. During the holidays a few years ago, said Ballerini, she had dinner with her manager and asked: “What is my blind spot? Where can I be better? “And he said:” You have to avoid acting as if you were new here. “So I tried to keep more in my victories and not get smaller. I think it’s a lesson for all women, be proud of our profits. “

At this age when I changed so much. I stop; The boys have become cute. There is a giant circle of fracture of relatives that occurred, not only between my mother and my father. Being a unique child, I needed a position to go. I have many emotions all the time and I needed a position to put them.

I would like to be able to tell you that my goal was to make a club from the club, but it would be dishonest. The fact is that it was so frozen after the reception carpet, because the goal is not a good advertising fortune in any title. It was literally this collection of six songs that I made silently with another person, Alysa, to the point that she did not even count for my record contract.

And then he connected as he did. So, when it was time to make my “Passod album”, I didn’t know where to start, because I felt this tension to stick to her and do it well. I had to dissect what these paintings did and then asked: “How to translate this into my life now?” I knew that if I was going to start writing, I had to do it with other people with whom I felt safe. And then I called my friends, who are among the maximum music composers asked, but they are also my friends. I told myself: “Hey, can we go in a position in which a really comfortable and pretty position for two days? I will supply so much wine, and can we see if there is anything? And if there is none, there will be two days of femininity. ” If it is the worst case, we are fine. We ended up writing “sorry mom”, “two things” and “luggage. ” And I told myself: “There are. ” I felt this immense relief and this release, but also a sense of freedom that I had never felt before. I do not avoid saying that it was not just a co-writing, but it was life for a year.

Gravito to write about the instability of life, whether an edition of heartbreak or simply expansion pain. I love writing about the awkward expansion and the nature of this. The most difficult component for me is to write when I am happy, as you said. It is much easier, because writing songs is very healing for me, sitting when I am in the downloads of anything than when I am happy. Because when you are happy, you must pass and exist in your happiness, do not sit with your guitar. But I would say that making models really reflected the year and a component I wrote. Therefore, there are problems and developing pain, and there is happiness, but it is not sugar.

Even “First Rodeo”, which, I think, is the first love song I wrote for the models, it is literally: “I fell from the horse. It’s shameful. I felt like broken passods. Oh, my God, you are there. It’s an unconventional love song, and that’s what interests me: the nuance of this, not only” Friday night in your truck, go to the bar. “

It is my purpose to be a woman who appears in the headlines. Especially in country music, you don’t see it much. I think I, and I collectively had this “if not now, when?” mindset.

Seeing the crowd is one thing, but feeling the crowd is something else. We are locked. The screen is structured as an emotional roller coaster. I’m sorry every night with people, and it’s the dream.

If we, as artists in the country, have the impression of being able to have a collaboration in the 40 most sensible or have a collaboration with an R&B artist, why would we not welcome another person? I think this is where other people who repel other people want to verify themselves, because music is for everyone. And in specific country music, the tent of this is the history of other people.

I had to move my brain status to need to speak with a giant audience to need to talk to my audience. I had to get out of my head, because I am an emotion of other chronic people: any agitation or other people who are angry with me seem paralyzing. So, I have never been noisy about anything for a long time, because I only had to do a position for me. And then I told myself: “In the end, I need other people who pay attention to my music to know what I constitute and, hopefully, align it with it. “

Two days of Apass, we had a queen at the audience in Philadelphia, and I felt deeply grateful that they felt a lot there at the theater of La Peluca. And that’s what is close to my center now. I need my global music tape, the other 15,000 people there, they know that we are aligned and we can be a position and continue fainting them in the global and see to do the right thing. When I think about it on a larger scale, it’s too much. I don’t know where to start. But I know I can start with myself and how I provide my community.

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