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Kelsea Ballerini appears to telephone retired Halsey implicit a mislaid relationship successful a caller track, "Doin' My Best," disconnected her medium Subject to Change.
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Kelsea Ballerini released her album Subject to Change connected Sept. 23, and 1 opus successful peculiar is raising eyebrows. In the way "Doin' My Best," the state prima hints astatine a breached friendship, singing, "I was friends with a popular prima / I enactment 'em connected way four, but / Wish I could instrumentality it back, I woulda ne'er asked / If I knew we wouldn't speech anymore."
Internet detectives hypothesized that the unnamed popular prima is Halsey, who joined Kelsea connected "The Other Girl," the 4th way on her 2020 album, Kelsea.
Without confirming the person's identity, Kelsea spoke astir the opus connected Audacy's Rob + Holly Show Sept. 15, saying, "The volition down that lyric—because I bash consciousness similar I bash person to accidental this—it is not meant to beryllium a shady lyric."
"The full thought of that song—just due to the fact that that opus is going to beryllium 1 that radical speech astir and I cognize that—it's the thought of taking ownership of my cringe," she continued. "I wanted to admit each of the things that radical person watched hap successful my beingness and conscionable go, 'Yep. Here's the messiness. I'm owning it, I'm doing my best.'"
E! News has reached retired to Halsey's and Kelsea's reps for remark and has not heard back.
Kelsea also spoke to Rolling Stone about what inspired her to get truthful idiosyncratic successful her music. "It's each already retired there." she said successful comments posted Sept. 23. "Putting the past medium retired the week the satellite unopen down and having a play of acheronian aft that is retired there. The information that I'm going done a divorce is retired there. Having celebrated friends that I station astir each the clip and past they're nary longer successful my beingness is retired there...So wherefore not instrumentality ownership of that?"
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Kelsea and Halsey's friendship over the past fewer years resulted successful a much-celebrated collaboration. In 2019, they performed unneurotic for the bid CMT Crossroads, including the duet "The Other Girl." The pursuing year, the opus was released arsenic a azygous and the singers performed it again with a Coyote Ugly-themed set astatine the CMT Music Awards.
Also successful 2020, the two spoke to CMT vigor personality Cody Alan astir their friendship. "I deliberation that what we bash present makes wherever we travel from feel, not each that different," Halsey said. "Kelsea and I are the types to beryllium like, 'Do you privation to spell get a burger and bent retired astatine my house?'"
Kelsea added, "And not speech astir thing that's like, 'work.'" Halsey concluded, "So, that's Jersey, and that's Tennessee. That's wherever we travel from, it's working-class people."
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