KELSEA
BALLERINI
PATTERNS
NEW ALBUM OUT OCTOBER 25TH
PATTERNS
| Cover Art Provided Courtesy of Patrick Tracy and Black River Entertainment
FEATURING HIT SINGLES INCLUDING
‘SORRY MOM’ AND NOAH KAHAN DUET
‘COWBOYS CRY TOO’
|
When you write songs from your own
life, it takes a lot of living to come up with something special. Thankfully,
for multiple GRAMMY nominee and Country Music Association award winner Kelsea
Ballerini, a 30-something who never stops, inspiration is never hard to
come by. Having created a deep dialogue with her fans, a lot has happened
since the GRAMMY-nominated ROLLING UP THE WELCOME MAT in 2023. Teaming with producer and longtime collaborator Alysa Vanderheym, Ballerini opted for an all-girl approach to "There was an unpresumed feeling of knowingness that happened on that retreat,” Ballerini reports. “I felt safe, so then I was able to feel honest, and then more so, creative. We were all, as songwriters, in tandem but more so as women just in a real heart flow of it all. Having these heroes and friends champion the process and the guts of it all has been one of the joys of my career. Disassembling and sorting through the habits and nuances of ourselves, and then those that we love the most, is a chapter I am still in and will always stand by. I’m really proud of that story through music." Pre-save PATTERNS HERE and
pre-order exclusive PATTERNS on vinyl and CD HERE via
Black River Entertainment. PATTERNS offers a judgement free zone that feels good, even as it
unpacks the patterns that get in our way, the fights that could be final and
the friends who pull up and get you through. After the "drop the
defences" ‘Cowboys Cry Too’, with Noah Kahan has started scaling country
radio in America and streaming service charts, Ballerini puts the focus
firmly on her trip through the uncharted waters of figuring it out with ‘Sorry Mom
’.
“I couldn’t have started a song with ‘Sorry Mom I smelled like
cigarettes…,'” offers the candid voice of a generation. “But
that was the thing with these writers: everyone was encouraging and pushing
to go further into the way we really live. And it’s all there in
‘Sorry Mom’: chasing dreams, walking away from school, losing my virginity,
walking away from college. “But the best part of the song is – in the fullness of time – I can
appreciate how she felt about all of it, I can understand why. We can both
look back on those times, knowing it was part of the journey, and it’s part
of a lot of people’s journeys… But when you look at everything that happened,
it turned out pretty well. To me, that’s what you can’t know ‘til you’re
here.” With the acoustic guitar out front opening, the midtempo ballad is more than
a fistful of details of one artist’s coming into her own; by the time the
band kicks in, the creamy California pop rising and the harmonies roll in,
Ballerini offers a blessing for mothers, daughters, sons and even friends who
offer the tough love but never stop loving the dreamer chasing a life they
don’t understand. “I love how our relationship evolves. My Mom didn’t understand, was even
disappointed by some of it, but stood by me, holds me like gravity. When you
recognize your own growth, priorities and being a woman she’s proud of?
That’s a lot for a song to hold.” CONNECT
with Kelsea Ballerini:
 About Kelsea Ballerini Kelsea Ballerini has consistently made history. With the release of
her debut album, The First Time, she became the only female
country artist to hit No.1 with the first three consecutive singles
from a debut album. This history-making feat earned her a ‘Best New
Artist’ GRAMMY nomination. She has logged five back-to-back
Top 10 entries on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart,
including the platinum-selling The First Time (2015),
gold-selling Unapologetically (2017), gold-selling kelsea (2020), ballerini (2020)
and SUBJECT TO CHANGE (2022). With seven No.1
singles and 32 certifications from the RIAA to date, her
catalogue boasts a string of essential smashes.  Among dozens of accolades thus far, Ballerini has garnered four GRAMMY nominations,
won two ACM Awards, picked up two CMA Awards, took
home the iHeartRadio Music Awards honour for ‘Best New
Artist’, and received multiple career nominations from the ACM Awards, American
Music Awards, CMA Awards, CMT Awards and People’s
Choice Awards. Ballerini was also inducted as a member of the famed Grand
Ole Opry in 2019. At the time, she notably became the Opry’s
youngest member in its nearly 100-year history since being founded in
1925. Expanding her sphere of influence, Ballerini authored her first original book
of poetry, Feel Your Way Through (2021), and Dolly Parton
tapped her to star in the audiobook of Run, Rose, Run (2022).
This same year, the multi-platinum country superstar was named the newest
face of CoverGirl. She entered into a multi-year partnership and launched a
cosmetic collaboration with the brand in 2023. Ballerini’s fourth album, SUBJECT TO CHANGE, arrived in 2022. The
gold-certified first single, ‘HEARTFIRST’, earned her a GRAMMY nomination
for ‘Best Country Solo Performance’. She went on to surprise fans five months
later with the release of the intimate six-song Rolling Up the
Welcome Mat, which earned her a GRAMMY nomination for
‘Best Country Album’. Rolling Up the Welcome Mat, along with an
accompanying short film written and directed by Ballerini, marked the
multi-platinum star’s most honest work to date and led to her Saturday
Night Live debut, universal acclaim from critics including The
New York Times, Variety, Rolling Stone, as well as the honour of
gracing the cover of TIME Magazine. Most recently, Kelsea Ballerini enlisted ‘Best New Artist’ GRAMMY nominee
Noah Kahan to appear on her tender and beautifully crafted new single
‘Cowboys Cry Too’, following the pair’s incandescent performance on the
2024 Academy of Country Music Awards. In addition to this,
Ballerini announced she is set to serve as Coach on Season 27 of NBC’s The
Voice, premiering in Spring 2025. |
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