- 2024-10-31
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MUSIC
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Kelsea Ballerini Releases New Album “PATTERNS”
American country pop singer-songwriter Kelsea Ballerini released her fifth studio album “PATTERNS” on October 25, 2024 via Black River Entertainment.
This marks her first album in two years since the 2022 album “Subject to Change”.
The album comprises 15 songs, featuring a guest appearance from American singer-songwriter Noah Kahan, co-produced by
Kelsea Ballerini, and Alysa Vanderheym.
Kelsea Ballerini said of the album, “PATTERNS marks the end of my saturn return (thank the heavens). the beautiful and brutal look into myself and the people i love the most. the celebrations and challenges in the name of betterment, growth, and all around elevated vibes. the healthy habits that i hold close and the ones that gotta go.”
She continued, “Written from my truest self, but meant for you to project onto your own lives and try on for fit. whether you relate, want a song to cry in the back of an uber music video style to, dramatically/drunkenly tell someone how much you love them, or scream sing about moments gone wrong before they went right…it’s all yours.”- Kelsea Ballerini told NYLON about the album, “I think the whole record takes you through a very real journey of people that come together that have relational history and public relational history and different upbringings and different family dynamics and all these things, and you come together as adults and you have lives to sort through to be able to build one together. And to me, that is the most appealing part of love, sorting through all that and finding those dynamics that you're able to undo those patterns together. And I think it's a love record. It's just probably not what people are expecting.”
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Kelsea Ballerini explained about some tracks for the album.
“Sorry Mom”
“It’s an intimate song. The first line is, ‘Sorry, mom, I smelled like cigarettes.’ You know, it’s the things that your mom doesn’t really want to hear. But then you get to the chorus and the meat of it and the heart of it, and it’s a letter of thanks to my mom for raising me the way she did.
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.
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.”
“First Rodeo”
“'First Rodeo' is all about embracing fragility, hope, and getting back on the horse. the video is out now, featuring the handsome human who inspired the song and made me love sunsets again.
Listen, there’s a reality that an inner monologue post public breakup is, ‘I feel washed up on the heart front. I feel like I don’t know how to do this anymore'. But at the end of the day, choosing love is bigger, and the honesty of saying please take it slow and be patient with me can actually be a beautiful and connective moment. ‘First Rodeo’ encapsulates that conversation, and more so, that decision within self to be vulnerable and open and allowing the hope of it all to seep back in.
The visuals are meant to show the emotion, duality, feelings, and landscape of this record. But as much as it’s personal and my own art and life, it’s kind of at the point now that it turns into a shared relationship…where it becomes a different meaning to everyone. Truly, that’s why I can’t wait to play this record live and see how it all connects outside of my own journey. Until then, I feel like 'First Rodeo' is the perfect final taste of the storyline and heart of PATTERNS.”
“Two Things”
“Two Things, the story of learning to break the pattern of fighting with and learning to fight for. I'm so proud of the heart in this song.”
“Cowboys Cry Too” featuring Noah Kahan
Kelsea Ballerini: “In our world and culture and echo chamber of highlight reels and pretty things, sometimes real feelings start to feel like something you just set aside or push down to keep up. Especially the way so many men grow up, that kind of toxic masculinity mindset of ‘saddle up, brush it off.’ I wanted to write my perspective and essentially celebrate the vulnerable men in my life, and Noah adding his really unfiltered perspective into it just brought it to life in a more meaningful and beautiful way. To the cowboys, cowgirls, and anyone who listens…let ‘em out. I couldn’t be more proud to put this music and message out alongside such a lovely artist and friend.”
Noah Kahan: “It’s the writers who are willing to go to the awkward places that inspire me. Kelsea is one of those, and I knew if we could find something we both believed to sing, it would expand how we look at the way we live, what society decides and we should reject. ‘Cowboys Cry Too’ is everything I believed our collaboration could be.” - source : Apple Music
