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Kelsea Ballerini’s Boyfriend Honors Her With New Interview

Author Nancy Brooks // Country Writer, Beasley Media Group

Kelsea Ballerini’s boyfriend, actor Chase Stokes, talked about his significant other to honor her as one of Entertainment Weekly‘s 2023 Entertainers of the Year.

In a new interview, Chase told the publication of his girlfriend, “She literally is the best person on planet earth. Every day together is either a comedy show or a life talk that I didn’t know I needed to have that ended up being something I’ll never forget.” He added, “I just love the girl to pieces, and I’m so f—-ing proud of her.”

Stokes also revealed that before the couple “even met,” she sent him her album Rolling Up The Welcome Mat and told him that she wanted him to listen to it “because I want you to know who I am” and she wanted him “to have some clarity.”

He noted that she had done that before she had any idea how she would put it out or her plan. Chase shared that watching it go from an idea into what it’s become has been a “wild journey.” He said he went to a couple of shows right after it came out and watched it “grow and grow.”

The album is now a GRAMMY Nominee for Best Country Album.

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And he knows just how real she is saying that the same person he sits down in the living room with and has “dinner on the floor” with is the “exact same person” you see on stage.

Ballerini recently celebrated Stokes’s birthday and shared a screenshot of the first time she DMed him, which was when they officially met.

In an Instagram post over the weekend, Kelsea posted several photos of her and Chase together and a couple of video clips. In the last picture, Ballerini posted a screenshot of when she first DMed him on Instagram, writing, “hiii, chase stokes.” At the time, he replied in the DM, “Hey there, how you doin’.” She replied, “i’m kels, nice to meet you (smiling face emoji).”

Kelsea captioned the birthday post, “Happy birthday, my sweet Virgo. @hichasestokes.”

See that post here.

Top Five Fun Kelsea Ballerini Songs

  • "Yeah Boy" (2016)

    A fun song found on her debut album, “The First Time.” The music video for the song is an ode to the 1990s. Ballerini is shown performing the song in a colorful bodysuit in front of a neon backdrop and a brick wall spray-painted with graffiti, with female backup dancers. When the song came out, Kelsea was touring with Rascal Flatts and headlining her own “The FirstTime Tour.”

  • "Heartfirst" (2022)

    This is a song on Ballerini’s “Subject To Change” album, which seemed to catapult her to a new level of fame. Kelsea wrote the song with Alysa Vanderheym and Little Big Town’s Karen Fairchild in July 2021. According to Ballerini, it was the first song that she ever wrote where she did not come up with the title first; instead, the opening line, “Met him at a party / Accidentally brushed his body / On the way to get a drink at the bar” was the first lyric she wrote for the song.

  • "Dibs" (2015)

    The fun song she named her dog after. The official music video for “Dibs” premiered on October 22, 2015. The video consists of footage Ballerini took while on tour in York, Pennsylvania, Greenville, South Carolina, and St. Leonard, Maryland, performing in front of live crowds, celebrating her 22nd birthday, and spending time with her dog. The chorus sings, Yeah, I’m callin’ dibs / On your lips / On your kiss / On your time / Boy, I’m callin’ dibs / On your hand / On your heart / All mine.”

  • "Hole in the Bottle" (2020)

    Kelsea happily joins the country music ranks with a drinking song; a remix of the song featuring Shania Twain was released five months after the original single came out. The music video begins with a vintage black-and-white style with Ballerini dressed in flapper wardrobe reminiscent of the 1920s. Once the first chorus hits, colored scenes are introduced, and she is shown in a house painting a portrait of her dog Dibs in a field with a couple of friends who join her in lounging on a bed and performing a dance routine with the singer and playing chess with herself.

  • "If You Go Down (I'm Goin' Down Too)" (2022)

    This song is a gem and puts Kelsea in the same company of “fun” murder songs like the Chicks’ “Goodbye Earl.” Ballerini said when the song came out, it was actually to evoke thoughts of the 1991 film “Thelma & Louise” and The Chicks’ “Goodbye Earl.” She told us then, “We really wanted to lean into a very ’90s country feel, and so we brought in fiddle for the song, which I think to me makes it. That’s also why there’s a Chicks reference to it, which everyone picks up on, which was absolutely intentional. I didn’t want to make it sound like anything else on the record. I wanted it to be its own moment.”

Nancy Brooks has been working in the country music industry for almost 30 years. She has interviewed pretty much any country star you can think of. In the late 1990s, she started working with Dolly Parton. And yes, Nancy reports that Parton is as sweet as you would think. She loves her life in country music and has been backstage at every CMA Awards show since the late 1990s. Many of her stories are from her one-on-one interviews. She was there at the beginning of the incredible careers of many music superstars today, including Taylor Swift, Shania Twain, and Blake Shelton, and has interviewed them multiple times throughout the years.

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