Kelsea Ballerini Opens Up About New Music and Quarantine Headspace
I love the songs too much for them to just exist how they exist now."
Kelsea Ballerini revealed the story behind the new music she’s been posting on social media on a recent episode of SiriusXM’s The Storme Warren Show, telling fans she’s got big plans.
The hit maker just released her third studio album, Kelsea, back in March, and that collection included some of most introspective work yet like the Platinum single “Homecoming Queen?” The album also included singles like “The Other Girl” featuring pop star Halsey and “Hole in the Bottle,” but lately Ballerini seems to be moving forward. She’s been posting teases of new songs recorded during the pandemic, and says they are bound to be released eventually.
“I love the songs too much for them to just exist how they exist now,” she told her hosts. “As far as the new stuff I’ve been writing … I’ve just been writing about myself. [My husband] Morgan [Evans] and I have written together for the first time which has been super fun, I know we’ve never done that before. But I’ve been writing by myself a lot which has been fun to just clean the slate of feeling like I always need other people’s opinions and just start to trust myself again.”
The star also opened up about dealing with the self reflection that social distancing and time at home demands. She may have more time to write by herself (and about herself), but that’s not necessarily a good thing. Lucky for Ballerini, she’s in a healthy head space.
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“It’s interesting because that phase of life was my last year,” she admitted. “I got off the road after the Miss Me More Tour and I had the rest of the year to just actually take a break and make an album, and I hadn’t had that since I started. I looked up and I was like ‘Uh wait, when did I turn 26? How have I almost been married for three years? What’s going on?’ So I started therapy and tried to get it all together, because I was feeling really out of control. So I think I had that phase last year, which I’m really grateful for this year because I feel like I have the tools to handle all of this going on.”
The Storme Warren Show airs weekday mornings on 7:00 a.m. ET on SiriusXM’s The Highway.
