{"id":15666,"date":"2019-06-04T12:05:59","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T18:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1807196"},"modified":"2019-06-04T12:05:59","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T18:05:59","slug":"backstage-kelsea-ballerini-says-its-time-to-ramp-it-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/music-news\/backstage-kelsea-ballerini-says-its-time-to-ramp-it-up\/","title":{"rendered":"BACKSTAGE: Kelsea Ballerini Says It\u2019s Time to Ramp It Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:ao:image:cmt.com:675147?width=1200&amp;height=675&amp;.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"byline\">by <span class=\"author\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/author\/bonaguroa\/\" title=\"Posts by Alison Bonaguro\" rel=\"author\">Alison Bonaguro<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"date\">31m ago<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>During the <em>CMT Music Awards<\/em> rehearsals on Monday (June 3), Kelsea Ballerini spent some time with us backstage to talk about the performance she was prepping for Wednesday night\u2019s big show.<\/p>\n<p>She revealed a few key details, but didn\u2019t give too much away. So no spoiler alerts here.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re about to go in an rehearse for \u2019Miss Me More,&#8217;\u201d Ballerini said. \u201cAnd you know last year at the CMTs, we did \u2019I Hate Love Songs,\u2019 and it was very stripped, it was very casual, chill.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(She\u2019s right. It was very chill.)<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/embed\/mgid:arc:video:cmt.com:bde9ff58-8122-4fd7-abbc-7b58b7861af3\">media.mtvnservices.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"> <\/noscript><\/div>\n<p>\u201cSo this year we\u2019ve gotta ramp it back up. So it\u2019ll be glittery. And maybe there is a glittery fire situation,\u201d she shared.<\/p>\n<p>Ballerini also talked about being a fan sitting in the nosebleeds at the CMA Music Fest \u2014 a few years before she was the one on the stage \u2014 and it seem like that\u2019s exactly the kind of fan she\u2019s hoping to reach with her music this year.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">We cannot wait to see your glittery performance, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KelseaBallerini?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@KelseaBallerini<\/a>! \u2728<\/p>\n<p>Tune into the 2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CMTawards?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CMTawards<\/a> on Wednesday, June 5 at 8\/7c to watch it LIVE! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kbsUjCeUnx\">pic.twitter.com\/kbsUjCeUnx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CMT (@CMT) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CMT\/status\/1135748607653679110?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 4, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The <em>CMT Music Awards<\/em> will broadcast live from Nashville\u2019s Bridgestone Arena on Wednesday night (June 5) at 8 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n<div class=\"author\">\n<div class=\"description\">Alison makes her living loving country music. She&#8217;s based in Chicago, but she&#8217;s always leaving her heart in Nashville.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1807196\/backstage-kelsea-ballerini-says-its-time-to-ramp-it-up\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Alison Bonaguro 31m ago During the CMT Music Awards rehearsals on Monday (June 3), Kelsea Ballerini spent some time with us backstage to talk about the performance she was prepping for Wednesday night\u2019s big show. She revealed a few key details, but didn\u2019t give too much away. So no spoiler alerts here. \u201cWe\u2019re about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15666","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 23:52:41","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KRKY Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}