When Kelsea Ballerini did interviews last year for her largely upbeat “Subject to Change” album, she was in a tough spot, being in the public spotlight for her less cheerful personal st…
, “It’s been pretty difficult, to show up and want to talk about a record that I love, and end up doing divorce press, you know?… This is not a divorce record.”
Country music has hardly been without its D-I-V-O-R-C-E records, although, with Tammy Wynette being as far gone as she is, it’s not the stuff that comes up much in Nashville writers’ rooms. A couple of major maverick artists have focused virtual concept albums around their own splits — the Chicks with “Gaslighter” and, in the Nashville mainstream, Carly Pearce with “29: Written in Stone,” both excellent exegeses of becoming an ex.
The singer has also dramatized the circumstances of a union’s unraveling with a stark, handsomely produced 20-minute short film she wrote and directed for “Rolling Up the Welcome Mat.” It follows, effectively, in the recent tradition of Taylor Swift’s “All Too Well” short in finding a singer directing a striking visual account of real-life moments when she felt knocked off-direction.
That’s not to say that the songs always feel so strictly autobiographical that they lack for cleverness. Although there’s very little in the EP that sounds singularly country by genre, the wordplay of “Just Married” is very much in the vein of classic country songwriting, with “just” having twin positive/negative meanings — as in recent, and as in merely. At other times, though, this is country music as defined not just by three chords and the truth but three chords and the ruthlessness.
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