Album includes “Heartfirst”
Kelsea Ballerini has announced that her fifth studio album, Subject to Change, will be released on September 23rd. The album will feature her latest single, “Heartfirst,” although a track listing has yet to be unveiled.
“In my younger years, the idea of change scared me,” Ballerini shares in a social media video announcing the album. “It had proven to be a faceless force that had patterned my past with uncertainty. Only in the gift of growth have I learned that that stark and constant juxtaposition of life, living happens. That when I unclench my fists, undig my heels, and unravel the architecture built by youth, a true metamorphosis can happen.”
She continues, “I’ve been searching somewhere between the broadness of the universe and simplicity of little things reflecting through wiser perspectives, leaning with body weight into matters of the heart and finding blissful acceptance in the inner cracks I once cursed that now let the light in to grow taller within myself. This is a season of becoming, healing, loving, dancing and feeling. And like everything, it is subject to change.”
“Heartfirst” was released in April, ahead of her remote co-hosting duties of the 2022 CMT Music Awards after testing positive for COVID-19.
The new music follows her double album, Kelsea and Ballerini, released in spring and fall of 2020, respectively. Her previous single, “Half of My Hometown” with Kenny Chesney, impressively marked her seventh No. 1 song on the Mediabase Country Charts and has garnered 200 million+ streams. It also won Musical Event of the Year and Music Video of the Year at the 2021 Country Music Association Awards.
