Kelsea Ballerini Examines Some ‘Patterns’ On New Album, Due In October
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Kelsea Ballerini is ramping up for the release of her latest album Patterns, due out Oct. 25 via Black River Entertainment.
Teaming with producer and longtime collaborator Alysa Vanderheym, Ballerini opted for an all-girl approach to the new 15-song project, which came together after a songwriting retreat with Vanderheym, Hillary Lindsey, Jessie Jo Dillon and Little Big Town’s Karen Fairchild.
With Patterns, Ballerini created an album that focused on female friendship, vulnerability and honesty, owning one’s jagged spaces and the way relationships really are, not the way they look on Instagram.
“There was an unpresumed feeling of knowingness that happened on that retreat,” Ballerini shares. “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.”
Patterns seeks to unpack the patterns that get in our way, the fights that could be final and the friends who pull up and get you through. “Cowboys Cry Too,” with Noah Kahan, has started scaling country radio and streaming charts, and Ballerini has also released “Sorry Mom,” a song for mothers, daughters, sons and friends who offer the tough love but never stop loving the dreamer chasing a life they don’t understand.
Patterns follows Ballerini’s Grammy-nominated Rolling Up The Welcome Mat and Rolling Up The Welcome Mat (For Good). After her new album releases in October, the star will bring her expertise to NBC’s The Voice as a coach on season 27 in the spring of 2025.
