Fans Call Kelsea Ballerini an 'Icon' After She Shows Off a 'Little Rage' on Stage
Kelsea Ballerini
Kelsea Ballerini seems to be sending a pointed message following her divorce from ex-husband, Morgan Evans.
The country songstress performed her tune "Blindsided" during a surprise appearance for a live taping of the Call Her Daddy podcast hosted by Alex Cooper in Nashville.
Although it has been commonplace for artists to change their lyrics during shows to describe certain things going on in their lives, it wasn't a switch-up of words that got fans' attention—it was Ballerini throwing up both middle fingers at the end of the song.
Video footage from the session was shared via Instagram on Tuesday, Nov. 15, where she can be seen in a baby blue ruched mini dress, flipping the bird with a sarcastic grin on her face after singing the lyrics, “You would have searched the whole world over? Yea, sure, OK.”
Backstage, Ballerini shared why she decided to make the gesture, saying, “I always wanted to flip the bird on stage but I’ve always been a little too nervous, a little too nervous because I’m a good girl, but I have a little rage.”
"Don’t we all? @kelseaballerini ur an icon 🫶🏼," the caption of the upload insisted.
"Blindsided” is from the 30-year-old's Rolling Up The Welcome Mat EP, which was released last year and is currently Grammy-nominated in the Best Country Album category. The track—which is said to be in response to Evans' "Over for You"—was accompanied by a 20-minute short film portraying a woman, played by Ballerini, going through the stages of grief as she experiences the end of a marriage.
“I don’t know if I would have written a song like ‘Blindsided’ had I not been responding to something that was already out there,” Ballerini told the New York Times in March, to which her ex-hubby then responded via social media in March: “It’s really sad for me to see this person, who I spent so much of my life with, and loved with all my heart, saying things that aren’t reality and that leave out what really happened. She knows I’m not the type of guy to speak on those things publicly. If this is what she needs to heal, I hope it helps.”
The former couple met in 2016, tying the knot after a year and a half of dating. They remained married for nearly five years before the country songstress filed for divorce in Aug. 2022. By November of that year, their split was legally finalized.
As for her current relationship, the "Penthouse" singer has since moved on with Chase Stokes.
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