{"id":1318942,"date":"2020-03-19T10:36:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T16:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1819218"},"modified":"2020-03-19T10:36:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T16:36:00","slug":"yes-kelsea-ballerini-overshares-but-she-does-it-with-grace-and-bravery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/yes-kelsea-ballerini-overshares-but-she-does-it-with-grace-and-bravery\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes, Kelsea Ballerini Overshares, But She Does It With Grace and Bravery"},"content":{"rendered":"
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by Alison Bonaguro<\/a><\/span>
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Before you even listen to Kelsea Ballerini\u2019s music, just listening to Kelsea Ballerini talk<\/em> about the music will kind of be like music to your ears. <\/p>\n

Her third album Kelsea<\/em> will be out on Friday (March 20), and in a recent radio interview, she had a lot to say about what went into her favorites from the 13 tracks, and what she set out to do with this project packed with oversharing. <\/p>\n

But first, the title. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe album kind of named itself. To be honest, I didn\u2019t really have a theme like I did on my last record. I just wrote for two years,\u201d she said, \u201cand when I was sifting through my favorite songs it kind of seemed like it was a very self-aware, self-discovery period of my life. Which is why I named it Kelsea<\/em>. Because it felt like if you listen to the 13 songs, we\u2019d be on a first name basis after that.\u201d<\/p>\n

The first track \u201cOvershare,<\/strong>\u201d Ballerini admitted, is going to be exactly that. <\/p>\n

The next one she talked about, \u201cHomecoming Queen?\u201d<\/strong> is more of a metaphor. \u201cI wasn\u2019t the homecoming queen. But I wrote it with Nicolle Galyon who was the homecoming queen in high school. So we kind of had both perspectives on that. But honestly, I was just in a season of my life where I put myself into this spiral of working and working and working and working,\u201d she said, adding that Galyon reassured her, \u201cYou show up on time and you\u2019re nice to everybody and you\u2019re remember names and you\u2019re successful. Like you\u2019re the homecoming queen.\u201d After hearing that, and having a good cry about it, Ballerini said she shared how insecure she was feeling. \u201cAnd so it\u2019s about having grace for yourself when you\u2019re having those moments, but also having grace for everyone else not knowing their full story.\u201d<\/p>\n

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