Kelsea Ballerini Denies Throwing ‘Shade’ At Halsey Amid Hypothesis, Chats ‘Totally different Tiers’ Of Friendship Inside The Music Business 

Kelsea Ballerini is clearing the air on a particular tune featured on her newest album Topic To Change. 

The observe “Doin’ My Finest” references a damaged friendship, which followers consider to be Halsey, who beforehand collaborated with Ballerini on “The Different Woman”, the fourth tune off her 2020 album Kelsea.

The lyrics in query are: “I used to be pals with a pop star / I put ’em on observe 4, however / Want I may take it again, I woulda by no means requested / If I knew we wouldn’t speak anymore.”

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Regardless of the oddly particular reference of observe 4, Ballerini denied singling out her former collaborator. As an alternative, the nation singer claims that the which means behind the lyrics replicate the challenges that include having fellow singer-songwriters as pals.

“I hope folks interpret that line prefer it was meant to be, which is not any shade in any respect,” the “Love Is a Cowboy” singer stated throughout an interview with Amazon Music’s Nation Warmth Weekly. “It’s simply saying that one of many issues I’ve needed to navigate is of course you need to grow to be pals with different artists as a result of nobody goes to get your life like one other artist does. After which, typically, that turns into actually awkward and typically there’s competitors concerned.”

She continued to clarify: “Then typically you attempt to do one thing collectively, trigger they’re your buddy and also you need to share artwork collectively. And you then introduce enterprise into it, and it simply messes every thing up.”

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Moreover, Ballerini shared the troublesome revelations that she’s come to be taught upon the friendships she’s made inside the music business.

“I believe at first I had this concept as a lady in nation music that I needed to be like, ‘Oh my god, OK. Everybody come over, let’s all be greatest pals. Let’s have a sleepover, let’s paint one another’s nails’” she stated. “And it was not the vibe. It’s not the vibe.”

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Now, Ballerini has accepted the truth that there’s “completely different tiers” of friendships like “real” pals who “aren’t all the time on digital camera and for show” like her “journey or die” friends Carly Pearce and Kelly Clarkson in comparison with folks she’s not essentially shut with however would help in live performance.

“The way in which that I select to empower girls in music is to feed these [genuine] friendships.”