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Post by Admin on Jun 11, 2017 18:50:01 GMT
Kelsea Ballerini found herself surrounded on Wednesday night (June 7) when she took her brand new song “Legends” outdoors at the 2017 CMT Music Awards. Fans closed in on the small stage, and nearly everyone was holding a “Kelsea” sign, a “Legends” sign or a phone to capture her barefoot, fresh-air performance. Ballerini did her singing alone on the lighted stage, while her full band backed her from a bigger stage behind her and the crowd.
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Post by Admin on Jun 13, 2017 18:47:23 GMT
Country-pop breakout, Kelsea Ballerini has finally released the first single off of her upcoming sophomore album. “Legends,” a Taylor Swift Fearless –esque reflection on past love, is bound to become one of this summer’s country radio hits. Ballerini sat down with Rolling Stone Country to share the inspiration behind the song: “I wrote it from the perspective of a breakup. Now I’m in such a different place in my life that, to me at least, it’s a love song about a love that you look back on that doesn’t even necessarily have to end. I hope my fans hear it as a letter to them but also they hear their own love story in it too.” The last year and a half has put Ballerini on the map, with four songs from her debut album, The First Time, topping the Billboard Country charts (“Peter Pan,” “Dibs,” “Love Me Like You Mean It,” and “Yeah Boy”). Given its catchy sing along chorus, I expect we’ll be seeing “Legends” take a similar path in the next coming weeks, potentially adding a fifth number 1 to Ballerini’s roster.
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Post by Admin on Jun 17, 2017 18:53:47 GMT
Kelsea Ballerini‘s new single “Legends” is a bittersweet love song that marries her pop-friendly sound to a hook that has more bite. The song hurts, even as you’re smiling. Ballerini has promised an album full of songs about an ex-lover and her current love, and “Legends” is found squarely in the middle. It’s a rare country song that looks back on the end of a relationship with a gratitude. There’s no regret, bitterness or contempt aimed with a shotgun at a guy who did her wrong, just true understanding that what they had was wonderful, but it needed to end. That’s a rare kind of maturity for a 23-year-old, but Ballerini is the rarest of millennials. The song stays true to what she’s released previously, but the new single is thicker with an arrangement that’s almost orchestral. It’s certainly dramatic — a fine accompaniment to the story she’s telling. “Legends” does something she didn’t always do on songs from The First Time. It’s a complete effort, with everyone in the room committed to a shared vision.
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Post by Admin on Jun 21, 2017 18:50:28 GMT
Two years after the launch of her chart-rocking debut album The First Time, Kelsea Ballerini is set to release her sophomore album sometime in 2017. The country starlet says her second project will be a defining one for her. “It’s totally capturing the last two years of my life, which involved both a big breakup and a lot of pure growing up,” Ballerini says in an interview with Billboard; she also offers up her star-studded collaboration wishlist, which includes Hillary Lindsey, Ross Copperman and Josh Osborne, among others … and which isn’t so much a wishlist anymore. “That’s basically my wishlist of people to collaborate with, and they’ll be on my album,” Ballerini adds, “so I’m stoked.” Ballerini has been “fully immersed” in creating her sophomore album for more than a year. Here’s everything you need to know about the disc. On May 29, Ballerini teased a clip of her sophomore album’s first single, titled “Legends.” She debuted the studio version of the track on The Bobby Bones Show on June 7, though fans who had seen Ballerini live had been able to hear the song already. “Legends” is an upbeat, peppy song that finds the singer reflecting back on the glory days of a relationship: “Yeah, we were legends /,Loving you, baby, it was Heaven / What everyone wondered, we’d never question / Close our eyes and took on the world together / Do you remember?” Ballerini sings. The song’s lyrics talk about an all-consuming love story that seemed invincible: “We were crazy / Tragic and epic and so amazing / I’ll always wear the crown that you gave me / We will always stay lost in forever / And they’ll remember / We were legends.” In her trademark sparkling country-pop style, Ballerini sings about the bittersweet memories of a love gone by, but “Legends” isn’t a downer; rather, the tune will make for a catchy summer sing-a-long.
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Post by Admin on Jul 8, 2017 19:17:30 GMT
“When I wrote this song, I knew it was the beginning of the next chapter,” Ballerini writes on Instagram. “And while I hope you hear your own story of love or loss and the lyrics bring you to your own place of nostalgia, I also hope you hear our story … [Y]ou and I have fought for each other. We’ve shown up for each other. We’ve been neon in grey crowds. We’ve written our own story. We were legends. And that is why it only makes sense that we start chapter two together, you and me. Thank you for everything.” In addition to “Legends,” Ballerini has been performing unreleased songs titled “Unapologetically,” “I Hate Love Songs,” “Roses” and “High School” live recently. In 2016, the artist promised that she would include the latter song on her next album. “I really want people to know I’m a songwriter,” Ballerini explained at the time. Of that potential title track that features her fiance, Ballerini says that the song is about Evans, “and it’s cheesy and I like it.” Per that Billboard interview, Ballerini’s co-writers for her sophomore album include Shane McAnally and Luke Laird in addition to Lindsey, Copperman and Osborne. “I’m so excited about [this album],” says Ballerini. “I thought that I was attached to my first one, and this one is even more so; it’s, like, me in music form. I think it’s going to be a lot more bolder, a lot lighter and a whole lot darker than my first album.”
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