Kelsea Ballerini Recalls Nerves Before 1st Date With Chase Stokes In New Song ‘How Do I Do This’

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Kelsea Ballerini released the deluxe variation of her Rolling Up The Welcome Mat EP connected Aug. 11, and it featured 1 marque caller opus that took her into the adjacent chapter. The track, “How Do I Do This,” tells the communicative of moving connected with idiosyncratic caller aft a breakup. Kelsea divorced her husband, Morgan Evans, aft much than 5 years successful 2022, and the different songs on Rolling Up The Welcome Mat told her broadside of the communicative astir the split. “How Do I Do This” moves into the adjacent phase, wherever Kelsea starts thing caller with her now-boyfriend, Chase Stokes.

In the archetypal verse, Kelsea instantly delves into her nerves astir gathering up with Chase for the archetypal time. “I haven’t been connected a day since I was 22,” she sings. “My person has a person and they accidental they’re my type, and they’re texting maine once, and past they’re texting maine twice.” Kelsea antecedently revealed that she slid into Chase’s DMs aft her manager “put the bug successful [her] ear” due to the fact that helium lives successful Charleston, which is wherever Chase films Outer Banks.

The extremity of verse 1 finds Kelsea agreeing to a day with the song’s subject, past diving into the chorus, wherever she 2nd guesses herself. “Got a small achromatic dress, I wanna usage it, and possibly suffer it connected a level that ain’t mine,” she sings. “I deliberation it’s astir apt clip to support movin’, I speech a large crippled that I’m frightened of losin’, everything I knew astir emotion is ruined, it’s truthful confusing, truthful however do, however bash I bash this?”

In the 2nd verse, Kelsea fears that her day volition bring up the “elephant successful the room,” which, of course, is her caller nationalist breakup. Then, a 2nd question of anxiousness arises arsenic she wonders if he’ll “lean in” for a buss astatine the extremity of the nighttime and whether things volition beryllium “too bully to beryllium true.” The opus ends with Kelsea calling up a person for a pep talk, concluding, “Is it incorrect to instrumentality a shot? I’m freaking out, like, ohio my God, ’cause present it’s 7 connected the dot.”

Kelsea and Chase astatine the CMT Awards. (Matt Baron/BEI/Shutterstock)

Kelsea and Chase archetypal met astatine the extremity of 2022, and were publically linked successful January 2023. She confirmed that they were seeing each other erstwhile she appeared connected the Call Her Daddy podcast successful February to enactment the archetypal merchandise of Rolling Up The Welcome Mat. In April, they made their reddish carpet debut arsenic a mates astatine the CMT Awards.

In summation to “How Do I Do This,” Rolling Up The Welcome Mat (For Good) besides features a unrecorded mentation of the opus “Penthouse,” arsenic good arsenic the “Yeah, Sure, Okay” mentation of “Blindsided,” which Kelsea archetypal performed on Saturday Night Live successful March. Plus, the “Interlude” opus present has a afloat magnitude version, and seems to further code immoderate of the issues successful Kelsea’s relationship with Morgan.

“I wonderment what we’ll accidental erstwhile we spot each different ’round town,” she sings successful the extended version. “We said we’d grip this the close way, I conjecture we’ve done each different incorrect now.” She besides gets savage arsenic the opus continues, adding, “I anticipation you slumber amended astatine nighttime present that you got an service of radical that judge I’m the connection you utilized to telephone me.” Of course, this has fans guessing what connection Kelsea is referring to. Another lyric that captured fans’ attraction is erstwhile Kelsea sings, “I told you mine, truthful erstwhile determination died, what was your secret?” Here, she seems to beryllium insinuating that Morgan started hiding his determination from her, starring her to judge that thing fishy mightiness beryllium going on.

Still, contempt adding much substance to the occurrence with these caller lyrics, Kelsea has urged her fans not to travel aft her ex connected societal media. “From the deepest and purest portion of my heart, I inquire that you assistance this beryllium ours and fto the euphony simply beryllium the music, not excavation backmost into the acquisition that it was written astir about a twelvemonth ago,” she wrote connected Instagram. “As a songwriter, shaper and artist, I americium arrogant and protective of this EP, and arsenic a pistillate and human, besides arrogant of the new, blessed play of beingness I’m in.”

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