2/16/2023 0 Comments I wanna be with you lyricsThe jury’s still out on whether Ballerini will get the same kind of penguin clap awarded to male country stars who dare to add a shadow of fiddle to a radio single and are instantly pegged as the genre’s salvation, but Ballerini is on the road to her proper due as one of Nashville’s finest pop-country songwriters (and now also a published poet). I love that people probably expected something else.” And ironically, not purposefully, it’s the most sonically country record I’ve made. “I listened to a shit ton of Sheryl during this process,” Ballerini says. Ballerini went deep into that decade in quarantine: Shania Twain, Sheryl Crow, Faith Hill. “If You Go Down (I’m Goin’ Down Too)” is piled high with fiddle, dobro, and mandolin, and Ballerini’s vocals ring fresh and clear thanks to tracking the whole thing live, while “You’re Drunk, Go Home” goes full-on ’90s honky-tonk kiss-off with the assistance of Carly Pearce and Kelly Clarkson. 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. 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. It ain't nothin' for me to ball on you It ain't nothin' for me to spoil you If I adore you, I'ma give you that theory I wanna be with you, I wanna be with you I wanna be with you, I wanna be with you I wanna be with you, I wanna be with you I wanna be with you, I wanna be with you I wanna be where the commas will be But I need a hood nigga with the llama degree Get the limited edition, Audemars, it could be In a pivotal position, gotta pardon the fee 'Cause he bought a couple bags and he sent a couple whips And he took a couple trips, then it's dinner and a Myx And he's never with no other chick, fronting like he's slick 'Cause it's levels to this shit, and she could never be Nic Niggas be fallin' in love with this pussy Mean stew chicken, and bake him a couple of cookies Dick on veteran, ain't fucking with rookies Saw the High School video now he wanna play hookie Baddest bitch, I'm the catalyst Ain't never been done, bitch I added this Nah, I ain't gotta shoot, I got mad assists 'Bout to put a couple pieces on the mannequin Got a big billboard out in Madison At the Trump, and you bitches at the Radisson Got the.
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