Kelsea Ballerini is an open book—so really, what could go wrong in this episode of #CheapShots? From the celebrity that left her disappointed, to what really went down during that 'Southern Charm' episode with Craig Conover, the multi-platinum country music singer songwriter admits she has no problem oversharing. Watch as Kelsea throws back shots and spills tea when asked to rank her fellow 'Voice' judges, reveals how she slid in Chase Stokes’ DMs, and explains the song she wrote that was never meant to throw any shade.
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00:00In your song L.A., you say I'm on my third glass of wine trying to find conversation in a room with bigger names.
00:05Name one celeb you met that left you disappointed.
00:09Ahem.
00:11Hey, what's up? It's Kelsey Ballerini, and I'm about to take some cheap shots with Cosmo.
00:1530s do hit different.
00:19Ah! Okay.
00:22How do you think you're going to deal with this?
00:26I'm an open book. I overshare for a living. What could go wrong?
00:31In round one, I'll be taking shots at myself. Easy.
00:34The drinks are rosé. Are they?
00:38I love rosé. Four are regular, and one is spiked with some questionable vodka.
00:44Okay, here we go.
00:48Oh, what's your biggest fashion regrets?
00:51I had like a real infatuation with glitter rompers, and I do still wear them on stage.
00:56It's just like, I feel like the elevated version with like a little booty out, tasteful amount of booty.
01:01One time I wore a light-up romper for an awards show, but it was like proper.
01:06Like everything was wired, so it was really thick.
01:09So it just kind of felt like I was like wearing like a wall circuit.
01:13And I don't know if it really was good enough for that to work.
01:17Like, I don't think that had the bang for the buck.
01:23Okay, here we go. Okay.
01:24I just read the first line, and I already know that I'm stressed. Okay.
01:28In your song, Interlude, full-length version, you say,
01:31must have hit a nerve, damn, people got offended.
01:33What's one thing you've read about yourself that you didn't give a f**k about?
01:36One thing I've read about myself that I didn't care about.
01:41Sorry. It's my nervous energy.
01:44I have big nervous energy.
01:47I'm going to drink to that.
01:55I can't tell. I think it's good.
01:57The cheap shot.
01:58Oh.
02:02Please.
02:04It's child's play.
02:08What's my most toxic Virgo trait?
02:10I have a massive control problem.
02:12Like I have to control everything, but then I'll be like,
02:15well, why didn't you plan that?
02:17And everyone's like, because you don't let me do anything.
02:21Because you don't let me do anything.
02:23I just want everything to be perfect all the time.
02:25For everyone.
02:26The intention is really good.
02:27The impact is really not good.
02:29And that's what we've learned in therapy.
02:30Thank you, Kristen.
02:33In honor of your song, Hole in the Bottle,
02:35what's the most drunk you've been during a performance?
02:38I do have an answer to this.
02:40And I'm not going to tell you.
02:52Okay.
02:54In your song, Two Things, you say,
02:56I love New York City, but I can't stay at the Carlyle anymore.
03:01What really happened at the Carlyle?
03:04Bro.
03:05I mean, this song really does say it all.
03:08And that's the nice thing about writing it exactly how you want to
03:12in three minutes and 12 seconds.
03:14Does that count?
03:15It doesn't.
03:17Oh no, I already feel it in my esophagus.
03:19It's like right here.
03:21I had two sips of a rose.
03:22This is insane.
03:2430s do hit different.
03:31Oh my God.
03:32Okay.
03:33Round one complete.
03:34Round two, Timed Shots.
03:36These drinks are gin and tonics.
03:38Four are made with really yummy, good gin.
03:40And one is made with like the sticky floor of the bar kind of gin.
03:46I love a game.
03:47I love a competition.
03:49What were your encore songs for the first time tour?
03:52I think it was Just Love Me Like You Mean It.
03:54There was a second one.
03:55There was?
03:56High School.
03:57The first time.
03:58Ah!
03:59Yes.
04:00Yes.
04:04During season two, episode 11 of Southern Charm,
04:06oh God, it haunts me forever.
04:08How much did you bid to go on a date with Craig Conover?
04:11I don't remember because I know I'm timed,
04:14but I have to tell this story to clear this up.
04:16I was on radio tour,
04:17and I was doing a show for the radio station on a boat,
04:21and they were filming Southern Charm on the boat,
04:24and I didn't know that.
04:25And so I was just there playing Love Me Like You Mean It,
04:28being like, hey, radio station, please play my song.
04:30And then little did I know,
04:31my label had set up the fact that I was going to bid on a date.
04:34I didn't know.
04:35I get pushed into frame.
04:36Exactly.
04:37I get pushed into frame, bid it, got the date.
04:40They auctioned it off on the radio station.
04:44For charity.
04:45You never went on the date?
04:46No, some winner from the radio station got it.
04:51You were probably better off.
04:52Yeah, everything is great, as it turned out.
04:55But that does still replay often.
04:58They got reruns.
05:01Lots of them.
05:03Sorry to this man.
05:06You get to drink that.
05:07I do?
05:08But I gave you the tea.
05:10Does that not count?
05:11I am so grateful.
05:12Oh my God.
05:13Brutal.
05:14Brutal.
05:15I don't know if I'm a gin girlie.
05:20Absolutely not a gin girlie.
05:22Oh, I'm absolutely not a gin girl.
05:24Oh.
05:25That was the cheap shot again.
05:26It was?
05:29What is wrong with me?
05:31This year is going to get better, I swear.
05:33In your 2015 song, Yeah Boy, how many times do you say boy?
05:37Yeah boy.
05:47Chorus three times?
05:48Fifteen.
05:50Seventeen.
05:51There's probably a tag.
05:52There's a bridge.
05:53Twenty-five.
05:55Twenty-seven.
05:57Twenty-nine.
06:01I do?
06:02And I call that songwriting.
06:05That's...
06:062015.
06:08Ten years ago.
06:10Guys, we're all grown up now.
06:11We're all adults here.
06:12We're all adults here now.
06:13Thank God.
06:14Okay.
06:15Yeet.
06:17In 2017, you were nominated for a Best New Artist Grammy.
06:20Name the other nominees.
06:21Okay.
06:23Chance the Rapper.
06:25Anderson .Paak.
06:27Maren Morris.
06:29The Chainsmokers.
06:30That's right.
06:31Really?
06:32That was a big slay.
06:34That's a good category.
06:35Here we go.
06:37Name three other celebrities that share your birthday.
06:42I know Jennifer Nettles from Sugar Land.
06:44Shares my birthday.
06:47Can I have a hint or phone a friend?
06:50Sydney.
06:51Sweeney.
06:52I knew she was a Virgo.
06:53Sydney Sweeney.
06:57Jennifer Hudson.
06:59Oh, Queens.
07:08I have to do another interview after this and that is so daunting.
07:13Round three.
07:14The category is Cheap Shots.
07:16I will be taking literal cheap shots at everyone.
07:19The drinks are Tequila Sunrises, a personal favorite.
07:22Four are made with expensive tequila.
07:24And one is made from a $15 bottle.
07:27Did it have a worm in it?
07:28We'll never know.
07:30In your song L.A., you say,
07:31I'm on my third glass of wine trying to find conversation in a room with bigger names.
07:35Name one celeb you met that left you disappointed.
07:46I'm going to say it, but then I'm going to say that it was better.
07:49I'm going to say it, but then I'm going to say that it was better.
07:54I can't do that though.
08:02The first time I met Vanessa Hudgens, it was not good.
08:05And I'm such a big High School Musical fan.
08:07I'm such a big fan.
08:08And I was so excited.
08:09And it just was not the right timing.
08:11And it was weird.
08:12But then we sat next to each other or near each other at the Michael Kors fashion show.
08:17And she was so lovely.
08:18And so time heals all.
08:21And you know what?
08:22We're all in this together.
08:26I have weird days where people meet me and I'm probably an asshole.
08:29And you weren't an asshole.
08:30That's not what I'm saying.
08:34Oh my God.
08:36Okay.
08:37Oh boy.
08:39Rank your fellow voice vocalists from most to least talented.
08:43That's insane of you.
08:44Adam Levine, John Legend, and Michael Bublé.
08:47I'm on a group chat that lights up every time any of us talk about each other.
08:51I cannot do this.
08:52I cannot do it.
08:53And I won't.
08:54I simply won't.
09:00That was nice.
09:03That wasn't the cheap shot.
09:05Yeah.
09:06Victory.
09:08I will say I love and adore all three of these guys.
09:11They are good humans and great artists.
09:14And none of them are the least talented.
09:17Period.
09:19You met your boyfriend Chase Jokes by sliding into his DMs.
09:22Name one celeb who sent you a 40 DM.
09:25Not a single one.
09:28Not a single one.
09:29Trust me.
09:30If I had tea, I'd spill it.
09:31At this point, look at me.
09:33What do I have to lose?
09:34No, no, no.
09:35Nope.
09:36No one.
09:37That's why I was shooting shots.
09:39I was like, it's cold out here.
09:44Oh my God.
09:45Okay.
09:47One of the following collaborations has to go.
09:52Tell us which one and why.
09:54Better version with Fletcher,
09:56Hole in the Bottle with Shania Twain,
09:59You're Drunk, Go Home with Kelly Clarkson and Carly Pierce,
10:02or The Other Girl with Halsey.
10:05Do I answer this or do I just take a shot?
10:08I have an answer.
10:11You might be in the next question.
10:13I can't.
10:14I don't reckon I can.
10:16I don't reckon I can answer that.
10:21That wasn't a cheap shot.
10:23Yes.
10:25Okay.
10:26You're right.
10:29In your song, Doing My Best,
10:31In your song, Doing My Best,
10:32you say,
10:33I was friends with a pop star,
10:34I put him on track four,
10:35wish I could take it back,
10:36I would have never asked
10:37if I knew we wouldn't talk anymore.
10:38What really happened with a pop star on track four?
10:43God.
10:44You know how sometimes when you're friends with people
10:46and then you involve work into it,
10:47sometimes it just makes it weird
10:49because then your teams get involved
10:50and there's money talks
10:51and that's natural for a collaboration.
10:54It's totally normal.
10:55That's what happened
10:56and I wish I would have preserved a friendship
10:58rather than done a song.
10:59But,
11:00life do be like that.
11:03And also,
11:04that song was never meant to throw shade.
11:05It was only meant to say,
11:07I'm sorry,
11:08I shouldn't have done the song with you.
11:09We were friends.
11:10But,
11:11alas.
11:15How do you think that went?
11:17Fine.
11:18I feel fine.
11:20I think.
11:21I'm a little bit panicked.
11:22My Virgo control tendency is kicking in
11:24where I'm already spiraling a little bit.
11:30Cheers to you, Cheap Shots.
11:31Thanks for having me, Cosmo.
11:32Come see me on tour
11:33where I'm much more put together and glittery.
11:36I'm also on the season of NBC The Voice.
11:39So,
11:40tune in.
11:41It's amazing.
11:42I'll see you there.
11:43Or anywhere else.
11:44I'm around.