Kelsea Ballerini will serve as a coach for the upcoming Season 27 of The Voice, airing in 2025. Although it will be a few months until Ballerini’s season is on TV, she has already been taping the Blind Auditions, and getting extra close to her fellow coaches Adam Levine, John Legend and Michael Bublé.
“We have a group chat and it is the most pure,” Ballerini reveals on Amazon’s Country Heat Weekly. “It’s like they’re sending [pictures of] their kids, I’m sending the dogs. They’re like, ‘Hey, does anyone want cinnamon rolls on the way to work today? Bring cinnamon rolls.’ There’s not one single day that we have left that show and someone doesn’t text the group and say, ‘Hey, that was really great work today, team. Good show.'”
Ballerini already said she was eager, and a bit nervous, to join the iconic reality TV talent show, following in the footsteps of coaches like Blake Shelton, Reba McEntire and Dan + Shay, among others.
“I’m so excited,” Ballerini gushed to People. “I’m excited because it’s just such a new adventure. I’ve gotten to be on set in different capacities over the years, but to really assume that role as a coach — it’s really going to stretch me and it’s going to be a new opportunity.”
In addition to taping episodes of The Voice, Ballerini has also been promoting her new album, Patterns, out now. The 15-track project, co-written entirely Ballerini, is an honest look at her life after the release of her vulnerable Rolling Up The Welcome Mat in 2023.
“I really feel like it took me a minute to get my bearings on what to do after Welcome Mat because I was terrified,” Ballerini admits. “I was terrified because I wanted to follow it up well and be present in my life again and it took me a second to figure out what that looked like. But I think this album is kind of me going, ‘Okay, I’m 30. Here I am. Survived. That’s great. Let me look at my life. Let me analyze it. What do I love? What do I want to change? And then what have I contributed to both?’
“Then once I got comfortable with that conversation with myself, then looking at my most interpersonal relationships, my mom, my partner, my friends, and then doing the same kind of analytics, almost, and really challenging and growing in all those relationships,” she added. “And I think it’s like the journey of all of that.
When releasing Patterns, the East Tennessee native said the record was an honest and vulnerable look at her life in recent years, including falling in love again, this time with actor Chase Stokes.
“[It’s a] beautiful and brutal look into myself and the people I love the most,” Ballerini said when the record was released. “The celebrations and challenges in the name of betterment, growth, and all around elevated vibes. The healthy habits that I hold close and the ones that gotta go.”
“Written from my truest self, but meant for you to project onto your own lives and try on for fit,” she continued. “Whether you relate, want a song to cry in the back of an Uber music video style to, dramatically/drunkenly tell someone how much you love them, or scream sing about moments gone wrong before they went right…it’s all yours.”
Ballerini will spend the first part of 2025 headlining Kelsea Ballerini Live on Tour. Find all of her music and upcoming shows at KelseaBallerini.com.