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Kelsea Ballerini was ecstatic to helm the 2024 CMT Tunes Awards on Sunday, April 7.
“I have been waiting around months to say this, welcome to the 2024 CMT Awards,” Ballerini, 30, exclaimed in her opening monologue from Austin’s Moody Heart. “I’m so happy to be hosting the exhibit again this 12 months. When CMT referred to as me and they ended up like, ‘Hey, will you host for the fourth year in a row?’ There was really only ideal response and it was, ‘Yeah, sure, Alright.’”
As Ballerini’s lovers know, “Yeah, absolutely sure, OK” is the updated outro on her 2023 single “Blindsided,” which she debuted on Saturday Night time Live in March 2023.
“Now you’re singing out loud on the radio. But you are the only coronary heart that breaks,” she provides at the stop of the track. “You would’ve searched the full earth more than. Yeah, certain. Ok.”
“Blindsided” is a track off her EP Rolling Up the Welcome Mat, which in-depth her divorce from fellow region singer Morgan Evans. Following the observe dropped, he released his very own musical reaction in “Over You,” which asked when she understood their relationship was accomplished for excellent.
Ballerini’s Sunday reference was a prepared little bit for her core fans. Various hrs previously via TikTok, she responded to a comment the place a social media user explained to her to do the job the line into the demonstrate.
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“Challenge approved,” Ballerini quipped in the clip when finding her make-up finished. “I will sneak ‘Yeah, sure, OK’ into the script tonight and only the persons that see this movie will have an understanding of that it is likely to be our issue.”
Ballerini integrated her up-to-date “Blindsided” traces on her Rolling Up the Welcome Mat (For Excellent) EP that dropped in August 2023, a abide by-up to the model she put out the preceding February.
“It’s not mine any longer, it’s just not. Like, it is pretty significantly so an ‘ours’ detail. And so [the fans have] been really vocal from the pretty starting — as soon as I played ‘Blindsided’ on SNL, they had been like, ‘We need the ‘Yeah, Certain, OK’ edition,’” she solely informed Us Weekly at the time. “And then when I started off singing ‘Penthouse’ dwell, it sort of just adjusted and advanced each individual night. And then 1 day, on a whim, I just adjusted one particular phrase and it took on a complete new daily life and they were like, ‘We want that model.’ It is referred to as ‘The Healed Model.’ I under no circumstances manufactured that up! That was them.”
Ballerini has moved on from Evans, 39, getting love with Outer Banks actor Chase Stokes in January 2023. They made their pink carpet debut at the CMTs that April and returned to the show on Sunday.
“We aren’t really on the ‘let’s match’ coach. We just try to co-exist with our seems, but never intentionally match. We attempt to favor each other for guaranteed,” Stokes, 31, solely advised Us previous thirty day period of their crimson carpet design.
On Sunday, Ballerini stunned in purple on the carpet even though Stokes wore an all-white match. Ballerini also experienced multiple wardrobe modifications for the duration of the ceremony, altering from yellow gowns to Barbie-impressed cowgirl jumpsuits and much more.
