Kelsea Ballerini Reveals She No Longer Talks To Halsey On New Song ‘Doin’ My Best’

Kelsea Ballerini has a batch to accidental connected her caller album, Subject To Change, and it’s not conscionable astir her divorcement from Morgan Evans. The opus “Doin’ My Best” has a notation to Kelsea’s relationship with Halsey, who she says she doesn’t speech to anymore. “I was friends with a popular star, I enactment ’em connected way four, but privation I could instrumentality it back, I woulda ne'er asked, if I knew we wouldn’t speech anymore,” Kelsea sings successful the song’s 2nd verse.

In 2020, Halsey was the featured creator connected Kelsea’s opus “The Other Girl,” which was way 4 connected the album Kelsea. The duo performed the track for CMT Crossroads, which was filmed successful Oct. 2019 and aired successful March 2020. They besides teamed up to sing it astatine the CMT Awards successful October 2020, with a buzzed-about performance that channeled Coyote Ugly. It’s unclear what happened betwixt Kelsea and Halsey successful the little than 2 years since that performance.

Kelsea and Halsey performing unneurotic for ‘CMT Crossroads.’ (CMT)

Fans were perfectly shocked erstwhile they heard the lyric, arsenic thing antecedently happened successful nationalist to suggest that Kelsea and Halsey were nary longer friends. “Sad Kelsea and Halsey aren’t talking anymore,” 1 idiosyncratic tweeted. Another wrote, “I deliberation the saddest portion of Subject To Change was uncovering retired Kelsea and Halsey aren’t friends anymore.” Kelsea archetypal met Halsey erstwhile she attended their Nashville amusement successful 2018. They went retired unneurotic afterward and formed a accelerated friendship. In 2018, they besides some performed astatine the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show.

Of the lyric astir Halsey, Kelsea told Consequence, “I’m a quality and beingness is messy and there’s immoderate things that I wanted to instrumentality ownership for. It’s a small embarrassing and a small cringey, but that’s my quality experience.”

“Doin’ My Best” is 1 of the much susceptible songs connected Kelsea’s album, arsenic she besides sings astir the struggles successful her matrimony to Morgan, who she filed for divorcement from successful August. “Therapy for 1 turned into therapy for two,” she croons. “When you get joined that young, you got a lotta s*** you gotta get through.” Fans began speculating that thing was up successful Kelsea and Morgan’s narration owed to their deficiency of societal media posts unneurotic during summertime 2022. She confirmed the breakup astatine the extremity of August.