Subject to Change is also Ballerini’s most sonically rich record - and her most country. “I realized that sometimes the best hook is just the most obvious one.” This record, she says, “is much more direct: It’s how I talk to my friends when I’m two margaritas in on a Friday.” “I always thought that being a good songwriter was who could come up with the best metaphor,” Ballerini says. She reflects on that time period on a new song, “Doin’ My Best” (“2020 was a weird year,” she sings), with the kind of overwhelmed understatement we’ve all used to express the inexpressible and with direct lyrics that unroll everything that’s happened since: the marriage that turned into divorce (“Therapy for one became therapy for two”), the pop-star feature she regrets (“I woulda never asked if I knew we wouldn’t talk anymore” - likely a callout to Halsey, who featured on Kelsea cut “The Other Girl”), and some online blunders (“Twitter kicked my ass”).
Noxious fumes and winged insects are nothing in comparison, after all, to the release week that preceded her previous record, Kelsea, which came out March 20, 2020, right as the country shut down (she had to do drone merch drops to fans instead of a proper release party). It’s a playful LP about insecurities, finding peace at home, and salvation through therapy from the point of view of a married woman. She’s already in the midst of a press run for her fourth album, Subject to Change (out now), but why not add more chaos to keep things exciting? “So now I’m sitting outside melting like the Wicked Witch,” Ballerini says.
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When the 29-year-old country singer returned from tour rehearsal a few minutes ago, her carbon-monoxide detector was on full five-alarm blast, forcing her to run out of the house with little more than her phone and plop down in the safe, humid air - only to then have to duck a couple of aggressive hornets. It’s minor chaos in the Kelsea Ballerini household at the moment.
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