Kelsea Ballerini let a bit “rage” in whereas performing her tune “Blindsided.”
Ballerini, 30, sang the ballad — which is seemingly about her divorce from ex-husband Morgan Evans — throughout a shock look for a reside taping of the “Call Her Daddy” podcast in Nashville. The singer posted a video of the efficiency via Instagram on Tuesday, November 15, the place she put up two center fingers after singing the lyrics, “You would have searched the whole world over? Yea, sure, OK.”
Backstage, Ballerini shared why she determined to make the gesture, saying, “I always wanted to flip the bird on stage but I’ve always been a little too nervous, a little too nervous because I’m a good girl, but I have a little rage.”
“Blindsided” is from Ballerini’s Rolling Up The Welcome Mat EP, which was launched in February 2022 and is at present nominated for a Grammy for Best Country Album. It was accompanied by a 20-minute brief movie portraying a girl, performed by Ballerini, going via the phases of grief as she experiences the top of a wedding and an impending divorce.
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Ballerini beforehand hinted that the tune was partially in response to Evans’ monitor “Over for You” which he launched in October 2022, two months after the couple introduced they’d known as it quits. (Ballerini filed for divorce in August 2022 after 5 years of marriage and the divorce was finalized in November 2022.)
“I don’t know if I would have written a song like ‘Blindsided’ had I not been responding to something that was already out there,” Ballerini instructed the New York Times in March.
Evans, 38, responded to “Blindsided” on Instagram in February, writing, “It’s really sad for me to see this person, who I spent so much of my life with, and loved with all my heart, saying things that aren’t reality and that leave out what really happened.” He added, “She knows I’m not the type of guy to speak on those things publicly. If this is what she needs to heal, I hope it helps.”
Following the pair’s divorce, Ballerini moved on with Chase Stokes. The twosome started courting in December 2022, and Ballerini made the connection Instagram official two months later.
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“I slid into his DMs,” she stated throughout a February episode of “Call Her Daddy” about making the primary transfer on the Outer Banks star, 31. “I just swan dove right on in. … His handle is ‘hichasestokes’ and I just said, ‘Hi Chase Stokes.’”
On Tuesday, Ballerini posted a video of herself and Stokes via TikTok, soundtracked by her new single “How Do I Do This.” The candy montage options the couple having fun with automotive rides, hanging out at bars and concert events, swimming and accompanying each other to occasions.
“Favorite human,” she captioned the footage.
