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.
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