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00:00Who makes you feel the sexiest?

00:02I don't know if I really ever feel sexy.

00:04I think when you have the I made it moment,

00:06your drive diminishes.

00:09I don't really understand it,

00:10but music, I know, is such a tough industry.

00:13I did cry myself to sleep that night.

00:15You will be a mentor to somebody else.

00:17I was getting tall, boys were getting cute,

00:19bodies changing, everything's changing,

00:21and then my family was changing.

00:23I'm from Latin America.

00:24You grow up thinking that you have to be such a good girl,

00:26so humble, and so appreciative.

00:29And you really sometimes just need to own your power.

00:32Ilambe.

00:33Hi, I'm Nina Garcia,

00:35and I'm so excited to introduce our guest today.

00:38She's a Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter

00:41and one of the most influential voices in country music.

00:45This year alone, she played a sold-out arena tour,

00:48was a coach on The Voice,

00:50and of course, grace the cover of Elle.

00:53She's an advocate for mental health awareness,

00:56LGBTQ rights.

00:58Our guest isn't just following the rules,

01:00she's writing her own.

01:02This is Defining Kelsey Ballerine.

01:06Kelsey, thank you so much for joining us today.

01:09You had an incredible year.

01:11When you look back at 2025,

01:13what is one moment that will define this year for you?

01:18Ooh.

01:19Well, first of all, you're an icon, and thank you for having me.

01:21You're so sweet.

01:22It's really lovely to talk to you again.

01:24It's been a really beautiful chapter of life and certainly of my career.

01:28It's hard to even pick a word to define the rest of the year,

01:32because I have no idea what's coming up.

01:34But I think so far, doing my first arena tour, it felt very full circle.

01:39And I say that because there's a phrase that we use in Nashville called the 10-year town,

01:43and everyone kind of has their version of their 10 years to make it, what that means.

01:47I put out my first album 10 years ago, and it took a really beautiful, steady grind for 10 years to

01:54headline arenas, and we did it.

01:56How did it feel to see all those fans?

02:00Really emotional, and I wanted to make sure that I stayed present every night,

02:04because it gets really monotonous every day.

02:06You know, like you pull into the arena, every backstage looks the same.

02:10It's concrete.

02:11And so I really wanted to make sure that I was taking inventory every night.

02:16That's why we kept it to 35 shows and didn't make it longer, because I was like,

02:19I want to make sure that I can remember something in each city and just mentally document this,

02:24because not a lot of people get to do that, and I don't take it for granted, and I never,

02:28I don't know if I'll get to do it again.

02:35You've really carved out a name for yourself as a fashion fixture.

02:39Ooh.

02:39From the Schiaparelli look on the cover of Elle, to the Tamara Ralph couture mini dress at the Grammys,

02:45to a custom Michael Kors moment at the Met Gala.

02:48A Met Gala.

02:48Don't we love Michael Kors?

02:49Oh my gosh.

02:50Lovely human.

02:51Oh, the best.

02:52Was there a moment when you thought, okay, I've really made it?

02:57Never.

02:58Really?

02:58Come on.

02:59No, never.

02:59I mean, definitely moments where I'm like, I feel like a princess.

03:03Like, 13-year-old me is freaking out.

03:07Met Gala was a huge one.

03:08That's been on my bucket list for the longest time.

03:10Like, when I was a little girl, I'd play dress up.

03:13Like, that was my thing.

03:14I've always loved, like, clothes and fashion and beauty and being able to transform yourself

03:20depending on your mood and trends and all that stuff.

03:22And so that was really amazing.

03:24And the dress that Michael made was just gorgeous.

03:27Schiaparelli on your cover was a huge one.

03:30I don't think I'd ever put Schiaparelli on my body before.

03:32So even zipping it up, I was like, oh, yeah.

03:35So there's definitely moments that I think in anything, in music, fashion, business side,

03:40whatever it is, I think when you have the I made it moment, your drive diminishes.

03:45And I'm not there yet.

03:47I hear you.

03:48I can understand that.

03:49I believe there's more to come.

03:51Are there any fashion moments that you look back and cringe at?

03:56Certainly.

03:58You want to share?

03:59I have my own.

04:00What's one of yours?

04:01You go first and then I'll go.

04:02I've had so many.

04:03When I wore, like, something too tight or too sexy, I'm like, what was I thinking?

04:08Shoes that were too high when there were platforms.

04:10Yes, yes, that's hard.

04:12I mean, I've had several.

04:13I remember my first ever red carpet, you had to be top 40 to walk the carpet.

04:17But I really wanted to be at this award show.

04:19So I decided to be a correspondent for Radio Disney.

04:22So you could walk the carpet really, really early.

04:24And then you get behind the barricade and interview people.

04:27I didn't know.

04:28I didn't know.

04:29I didn't believe in eyebrow pencils.

04:32And I only believed in, like, booties, not heels yet.

04:35It just wasn't my best.

04:36And lots of blush.

04:37Yeah, it just wasn't good.

04:45You've talked a lot about how songwriting became an outlet for you as a kid growing up in Knoxville,

04:51especially as a way to process some of the challenging moments when your parents got divorced.

04:57Can you take me back to that time?

04:59Yeah, I loved music growing up and joined the Glee Club in my high school, led worship at church for a while.

05:08I always loved it.

05:09But I didn't know that you could just, like, choose to be a singer like you could choose to be something else.

05:15Like, I didn't know that was a career that you could chase down.

05:18I was 12 when my parents got divorced.

05:20And that's also the age, like, I was getting tall, boys were getting cute, bodies changing, everything's changing, and then my family was changing.

05:27But I just would hole up in my room, and I would write down all my very big feelings, and I would hum a little melody.

05:33It just became a really safe place for me where I could preserve all of my thoughts about all the big feelings that I had.

05:40That was like my branch in the water that I just held on to and then got out.

05:44Interesting.

05:45Yeah.

05:46Honesty has been a theme in your music, and I think that's part of why your EP, rolling up the welcome mat, connected the way it did.

05:54Has there ever been a moment where someone told you you're sharing too much, you're being too honest,

06:00or even warned you to dial it back?

06:04I think I was the person that was the most on the defense of putting out, especially that EP.

06:10Because I've always written about my life.

06:12Like, it's always been honest and from like a really true origin, but I would leave out details.

06:16So it could be for a 13-year-old little girl from Kansas, or it could be from, you know, someone who's like in London their whole life.

06:23Like, I wanted it to be for anyone.

06:26And then with welcome mat, I didn't.

06:28It was very just about my life at that moment.

06:32Those feelings.

06:33Very full circle to 12-year-old me with my parents, you know?

06:36I was probably the only one that was worried about the concept.

06:39Were you surprised?

06:40Very.

06:41Isn't that wild?

06:43Mm-hmm.

06:43It was like the most rewarding musical chapter of my life.

06:47And it was the most unintentional commercial project I ever put out.

06:50Incredible.

06:51This is a little harder conversation, but this series is all about the moments that define us.

07:05Obviously, we all know about the powerful poem you wrote about surviving a school shooting,

07:11which still gives me chills to read it.

07:15You say, I'm scared of loud noises.

07:18I'm triggered by the news.

07:19I'm terrified of guns.

07:20I'm sensitive in crowds, but I'm alive.

07:23And because of a boy named Ryan, I know what a gift that is.

07:26That is a powerful and scary situation you were in.

07:32Can you talk about that moment and how that affected you as a teenager?

07:36That happened the seventh day of my sophomore year in Knoxville at Central High School.

07:42It's hard to even really put that into words.

07:45Unfortunately, there are a lot of people that have been in that situation or a very similar one.

07:50And I think for me, it teaches you the value of life.

07:54There was also a shooting in Nashville two years ago now at Covenant.

07:59I was like, wow, we're living in a world now where I've been in the room

08:02for a school shooting and 0.3 miles down the road from a school shooting.

08:07And that is a really terrifying statistic.

08:09And I think that's why I'm starting to try to be a little bit more vocal about

08:14having a stance on what I believe to be right in that space.

08:18Well, and I think that's why you also think it's so important to be present, right?

08:22That's right.

08:22Talk about you want to be present at those moments in that arena with your fans.

08:27Just want people to be safe.

08:28And you also want to be present because tomorrow anything can happen.

08:32You've lived through that.

08:33Yeah.

08:34So it really is incredible that you live through that.

08:38I can't imagine.

08:40In your Elle cover story, you talked about owning your power and shared that your manager told you

08:46you need to stop acting.

08:47Like you're new here.

08:50Yes.

08:50Can you talk about that situation when you felt like you stepped into your power?

08:56I mean, we all go through that.

08:57Definitely.

08:58What is that like?

08:59For me at least, it was stemming from the fact that I was so grateful to be in these rooms finally.

09:05Like being at the CMA Awards and being at the Grand Ole Opry, I was like, I can't believe that I'm here.

09:10At the same time, I had worked my ass off for years and years and years and nothing was handed.

09:16Nothing was given.

09:17Like it was truly work.

09:19I'm grateful to be here, but you have to match it with that knowingness of I've also, I deserve to be here.

09:25Right.

09:26And maybe this is just like the, the Southern woman in me, but being like, yeah, good, good job.

09:31Me feels so icky.

09:33And I think I've learned from watching powerful women and having amazing peers in my life that

09:38the women that I want to be like, and that I really look up to are the ones that are like,

09:43here are my wins.

09:44Here are my misses.

09:45Here's where I want to grow.

09:46Here's where I'm killing it.

09:47Here you go.

09:48This is, this is my roadmap.

09:49And I'm like, I want to be like that.

09:51So I think it's, I think it's a journey for all of us.

09:54I'm from Latin America.

09:55You grow up thinking that you have to be so such a good girl.

09:59That's right.

09:59So humble.

10:00And so appreciative.

10:02Yes, quiet and small.

10:03And you really sometimes just need to own your power.

10:06Be lambic.

10:08Speaking of owning your power, you have achieved so much in your career.

10:13Yet as a woman at the top of her game in country music, it is still difficult to get radio play.

10:20Your fans are upset when you left this ACMs without a win earlier this year.

10:25As someone on the outside of country music, this shocks me.

10:31Why do you think this is happening?

10:33I wish I had a good answer for this, or I'd probably sleep a little better at night.

10:37I had seven number ones, and then one day I just didn't anymore.

10:41I still put in the work, and I still show up and put out songs that are undeniably country

10:47to radio, and it's just different now.

10:49And that's okay.

10:51If this was what success looked like for those first seven songs, and now that's shifted for

10:55whatever reason, where else can we go?

10:58Like, because I'm not going to stop.

11:00I'm not going to stop making music.

11:02So like, where else can I fit?

11:04So I think it's just about shifting where I'm finding success.

11:08And it's the same with award shows.

11:09Like, I've never really been an award show girly.

11:11I love going.

11:13I love performing.

11:14And I really let it affect me for a long time.

11:19And now I just go, you know what?

11:20I'm happy to be in the conversation.

11:22I know that I have value here, and this is not where I find my success.

11:27Good for you.

11:28I did cry myself to sleep that night.

11:30That is true.

11:31So I say this, but I need to be honest with you.

11:33Like I'm, it's, you know, it's, it's always this, it's very, yeah.

11:38And it's, to me, it's shocking.

11:40I don't, I don't really understand it, but music I know is such a tough industry.

11:45It's tough.

11:46Who are the women in the industry that you lean on for support?

11:51I've recently gotten to know Sheryl Crow a bit, and she is just the actual Webster definition

11:57of a badass.

11:58She really is.

11:59She's so lovely and gritty and cool and warm.

12:03I love Wynonna.

12:04I wish I could be around her all the time.

12:06She's incredible.

12:08And it's been a gift to get to know her really early on in my career.

12:11Taylor was a huge mentor and friend to me and really changed my life by sharing my music before

12:18anyone had heard it.

12:19Kelly Clarkson.

12:20I would die for Kelly Clarkson.

12:22I talk about her any chance I can.

12:23I make it weird.

12:24I love her so much.

12:25So I'm lucky to have really pillar women in my industry that I can, I can call and I

12:31can ask the hard questions.

12:32And you will be a mentor to somebody else.

12:35I hope to be.

12:35Yes, you will.

12:36I hope to be.

12:37We're going to wrap this up with a game of Inner Circle.

12:40I'm going to read you a scenario and you have to tell me who in your life would be there

12:44for you at that moment.

12:46I love this.

12:47Who's bailing you out of jail?

12:49Not that we want you to go to jail.

12:50I hope I don't go to jail.

12:52I'm calling Reese Witherspoon.

12:55That's a good one.

12:56That's a good one.

12:57Who's hyping you up before a big moment?

12:59My mom.

13:00Who are you texting when you want to talk a little shit?

13:03Carly Pierce.

13:04Who knows all your secrets, but would never tell?

13:06My best friend, Kelly, Kelly Bolton.

13:08Who gives the most honest advice, even if you don't want to hear it?

13:11My therapist, Kristen.

13:14Honestly, I owe her a phone call.

13:15It's been too long.

13:16Who makes you feel the sexiest?

13:18Whoa.

13:19I don't know if I really ever feel sexy.

13:22Oh, believe.

13:22No, that's not really.

13:23You are such a sexy mom.

13:25You're so nice.

13:26You are so sexy.

13:27I don't know if I, I, that's not really something that I wear.

13:31Seriously?

13:32Truly, truly, truly.

13:33Maybe that's like something I can work on.

13:35Except for that Schiaparelli.

13:36Okay, Schiaparelli there.

13:37That Schiaparelli is when I feel sexy.

13:41Who makes you belly laugh every single time?

13:45Oh my goodness.

13:46Uh, my childhood best friend, Madison.

13:48Who would you want in your corner during a major meltdown?

13:52Probably Taylor Swift.

13:53I feel like she can handle anything.

13:55She can.

13:56Who's the person you trust to pick up a tattoo for you?

14:00No preview.

14:01Unfortunately, I'm not precious with them.

14:03So you could pick one out and I would go get it right now.

14:05Really?

14:05Yeah.

14:06Okay.

14:07I'm going to pick that next tattoo.

14:08No preview.

14:09Okay.

14:10Anything you want.

14:13This was fun.

14:14This was lovely.

14:14Let's go to dinner.

14:15Yes, let's do that.

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