Kelsea Ballerini Announces Fifth Album 'Patterns' With New Single Sorry Mom
Friday, 06 September 2024
Written by Jon Stickler
Photo: John Russo
Kelsea Ballerini has announced her fifth studio album.
The follow-up to last year's 'Rolling Up The Welcome Mat' EP is titled 'Patterns' and will arrive on October 25 via Black River Entertainment.
Teaming up with long-time producer and songwriter Alysa Vanderheym, the Tennessee country artist opted for an all-female approach to the record, with it taking shape during a songwriting retreat with Vanderheym, Songwriters Hall of Fame alum Hillary Lindsey, Grammy nominee Jessie Jo Dillon and Little Big Town's Karen Fairchild, and focusing on female friendship. Commenting on creative process, Ballerini said:
"There was an unpresumed feeling of knowingness that happened on that retreat. 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."
The singer-songwriter previously teased the project with her recent Noah Kahan duet Cowboys Cry Too. She's now dropped another single, Sorry Mom, a mid-tempo acoustic pop ballad. She commented:
"I couldn’t have started a song with ‘Sorry Mom I smelled like cigarettes…'. 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.
"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."
Ballerini's most recent studio album is 2022's 'Subject To Change'.
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