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Post by Admin on Sept 6, 2019 17:50:28 GMT
She is all of us, and no one paints a better picture of her than Kelsea Ballerini. With the brand new song she penned with Jimmy Robbins and Nicolle Galyon and a music video from director Shane Drake coming out at the same time, Ballerini is poised to show the world her very real, vulnerable, insecure self. The one who knows that it’s okay to not be okay. CMT.com had the chance to ask Ballerini about all the emotions that went into making the video, and it sounds like the revealing nature of it is exactly the point she’s trying to make: that it takes guts to strip away the glam. But seeing Ballerini do it make the rest of us more inclined to follow suit. Are you actually giving us permission to show the world the real us, even when we’re not okay? When I talk about this song with Jimmy Robbins and Nicolle Galyon, who I wrote it with, permission is the word that we always use. It’s really about allowing yourself to feel. And that can be happy and that can be sad. Either way, it’s okay. For me, being someone who overshares a lot of their life, I do get scared sometimes to maybe show that I’m having a bad day or show that comments hurt my feelings sometimes. Everyone’s human. It’s important for people to know that we’re all allowed to break down, we’re allowed to have bad days, and we don’t always have thick skin. What’s the significance of the camera spinning around you and everything else falling away? That was like movie magic. It was the craziest thing. You never see anything change. But every time we’d cut, they’d remove the walls or do another take and add in the little girl. Every time the camera spins around, something changes: something goes away, something comes in, my eyelashes come off. There’s always a change happening to go from A to B. When you start gradually revealing yourself, what do you hope your fans take away from that? The idea of going from glam to just raw and real was what the whole video was built around. It was for that moment. That was definitely the moment where we wanted that reveal for people to understand what it’s all about. Every time I play it for someone, that’s always the moment when they get it. And that’s the reaction we wanted. We want people to get it then. How did get yourself to cry so genuinely at the end of the video? I’m not an actress. It’s really hard for me to emote with cameras on me. It’s just not my thing. We had done that last take a couple of times, and Shane Drake the director came in. I was sitting in the chair and he knelt down with me, and said, “Hey, we have what we need. We’re totally covered. It’s a great video. We’re gonna do one more just in case. And I know you wrote the song, and I just want to know why you wrote it.” And he walked out. And immediately I went back to that place where I was feeling really insecure and really vulnerable and unsure of a lot in my life. I just checked into that girl, and wept. Hard. As soon as I was done, instead of them yelling “cut,” it was just quiet and I walked out of the room. Did you know someone like the girl in this song? In some sense, we’re all this person. I think we all don’t show everything that’s going on. Whether we’re embarrassed or we feel guilt or shame or the status of having to feel always zipped up and together. I know I feel that all the time. Everyone’s story is different. For me, it’s just about, “Yes. I sweep a lot of stuff under the rug to make it look pretty. But that doesn’t mean it’s a clean house.”
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Post by Admin on Sept 9, 2019 4:39:58 GMT
Kelsea Ballerini's new single, "Homecoming Queen?" provided an emotional wallop from the get-go when she dropped it on Friday (Sept. 6), but the video for the song takes its message to an even deeper level. The clip, directed by Shane Drake, is deceptively simple in execution, but conveys a highly sensitive, raw vibe. It begins with Ballerini dressed glamorously in a hot pink outfit with matching boots and lipstick, sitting in a chair, singing. As the camera pans around her in a circle, the singer suddenly is changed into casual gray sweats and no makeup. At the very end of the clip, she begins to cry what appears to be very real tears. "I'’ve learned there’s a lot of strength in vulnerability," Ballerini posted on Instagram. "I’ve learned that cliche catchphrase 'nobody is perfect' is actually true, and when we let ourselves believe it we get freedom from ourselves. I’ve learned that I’m allowed to be happy, glittery, bold, sassy, and to never apologize for that side of myself. I’ve learned to also give myself permission to have a bad day, to feel insecure, to still be discovering who I am as a young woman, and to unzip the mess. "I was never the literal homecoming queen," she admits. But damn, am I this homecoming queen." Read More: Kelsea Ballerini Cries in Raw 'Homecoming Queen?' Video [Watch] | tasteofcountry.com/kelsea-ballerini-homecoming-queen-video/?utm_source=tsmclip&utm_medium=referral
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Post by Admin on Sept 11, 2019 22:54:06 GMT
The Jonas Brothers performed at Nashville's Bridgestone Arena on Tuesday night (Sept. 10), as part of their 2019 Happiness Begins Tour, and it was quite the event. Kelsea Ballerini joined opener Bebe Rexha for a spirited performance of “Meant to Be.” A huge fan of the Jonas Brothers herself, Ballerini shared a photo with the trio from earlier in the day as well as a video of herself from 12 years ago when she entered a contest to meet the band. http://instagram.com/p/B2Rft1RFHt7 “Only took 12 years to win the JoBro meet & greet,” she captions the photo and video. “Swipe for my 2008 contest entry from DEEP IN THE ARCHIVES OK GOODBYE.”
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Post by Admin on Sept 12, 2019 18:20:14 GMT
In honor of the 26-year-old country superstar’s day, we scoured the internet to find some of her hottest and most jaw dropping looks on the red carpet and stage to date. And there truly have been some unforgettable ones over the years. Born in Knoxville, Tennessee, the “Nashville” star got her first big break in the entertainment industry at 19-years-old when she signed a deal with with Black River Entertainment. In 2014, she released her debut single called “Love Me Like You Mean It” and it was a hit. A year later, in May 2015 her debut album titled, “The First Time” would come out. Since then, she’s continued to top the charts with one song after another with incredible hits like “Peter Pan” and “I Hate Love Songs.”
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Post by Admin on Sept 13, 2019 18:25:39 GMT
Bebe Rexha had a surprise in store for her Nashville fans when she performed at the Bridgestone Arena in Music City on Tuesday night (Sept. 10). The pop star invited country singer Kelsea Ballerini to the stage for a surprise duet on "Meant to Be," which she originally recorded with Florida Georgia Line.
Click on the fan-shot video above to watch the performance, which took place part way through Rexha's set opening for the Jonas Brothers on their current 2019-2020 Happiness Begins Tour. Rexha sings the first verse and chorus solo, while Ballerini joins in to perform the second verse. The women trade off on the rest of the verses and bring their voices together for the chorus in a dual performance that's very different from the treatment Rexha and FGL's Tyler Hubbard and Brian Kelley gave their radio hit from 2017.
Tuesday night's set also included a surprise duet between headliners the Jonas Brothers and Dan + Shay, who joined the pop superstars for a collaboration on Dan + Shay's own hit, "Tequila."
Ballerini has been in the spotlight quite a bit recently. She recently revealed that she has completed the tracks for her much-anticipated third solo album, and she released the album's first single, "Homecoming Queen?" on Friday (Sept. 6). The starkly emotional track shows the pop-country singer-songwriter at her most vulnerable, and in the video for the song, she literally strips away the artifice to appear without makeup as she delivers a powerful lyric about feeling like you can't show your true self.
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