Kelsea

"In the past, Kelsea Ballerini has struggled to reconcile her natural leaning towards pop with her position in Nashville's country music scene ... On her third album, the self-titled Kelsea, she finds a balance between the two. There's more than a hint of early Taylor Swift ... Overall, though, Kelsea is a slickly produced and well-crafted collection of songs that asserts Ballerini as a new queen of country-pop".

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"Kelsea Ballerini is her own kind of country ... The charming singer mixes pop yearnings and rootsy allegiance ... Ballerini, a singer who's collaborated with the Chainsmokers and been flooded with comparisons to country-to-pop pioneer Taylor Swift throughout her career, is one such artist. Her third full-length, Kelsea, is a catchy treatise on the push and pull dynamics of a pop-leaning Southern singer trying to negotiate genres, styles, and sounds".

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