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♪ I'm so excited ♪ ♪ I'm in too deep ♪ ♪ Oh oh oh crazy but it feels so right ♪ ♪ Baby thinking of you keeps me up all night ♪ - It's Britney (beep). Hey what's up friends, It's Kelsea Ballerini, and I'm here today to play a game of song association with Elle. I have to just be upfront. I've played this before. I got 9 out of 15. I'm not happy with that score. I wanna do better, so this is my chance at redemption. The stakes are higher 'cause of course, there's 20 words this time, and I still have the same 10 seconds to put that word in a song. So here we go, wish me luck. But before we get started, an album full of words that I wrote that I don't have to associate with anything, which is exciting. (laughing) It's coming out next month, March 28th. It's called "Kelsea", and go check it out. But before that I'm gonna try to... Just try to think of some songs. Here we go. (lips flapping) ♪ Mommy made me mash my M&M's ♪ All right, let's do this thing. Cheap. Cheap (clock ticking) ♪ Get drunk and get cheap ♪ (bell chimes) ♪ So what's wrong with me ♪ ♪ 'Cause I don't wanna go to the club ♪ It's my own song, I hate myself. I did it anyway, sorry about it, what. Baby. ♪ And I was a baby, baby, baby, ooh ♪ ♪ A baby, baby, baby, ooh ♪ I'm a Belieber for life, guys. (laughs) Heart. Heart, heart, heart, heart. (clock ticking) Every song has the word heart in it. (claps) (buzzer beeps) Heart, what? Every song has the word heart in it. I... Okay, okay. I missed heart, and I know heart's in like every song, but it reminds me of this thing that my mom and I do to this day for birthdays and Christmases and holidays, which is called a gift of the heart, which has resulted in a lot of songs, even my first song, so heart is actually very prominent in my song writing world. I remember the first song I wrote. (laughs) It's called, "Oh Mama" And I basically forget it was Mother's Day. I was 12, and I loved music. But I didn't know that you could really songs. But me and my mom always do this thing called gift of the heart, where instead of buying something, we paint something, or write something, or whatever. And so I was like, I'll just write her a song called "Oh Mama", and that was the first song I ever wrote. It's embarrassing, it goes ♪ Oh Mama, you raised me well ♪ ♪ From the day I was born ♪ ♪ To right here and now ♪ ♪ Oh Mama ♪ And it just keeps going, there's no form to it. I didn't understand there was supposed to be a verse, and then a chorus, and then a verse, and then a.. So I just, it was just like a song. Because when you're 12, you're like, it's all together. Sorry Mom. (laughs) Never. (clock ticking) I'm gonna go back to a Bieber song. I don't know why I'm on a Bieber kick, but I'm ♪ Never say never ♪ ♪ Not never say never ♪ And then.... ♪ What if I never get over you ♪ (bell dings) Close. (clock ticking) ♪ Want you close, mm ♪ (bell chimes) ♪ Close, ooh ♪ Tove Lo, Nick Jonas Name of the song, so that's helpful when it's the word. (laughs) Games. (clock ticking) Oh... ♪ 'Cause you know I love the players ♪ ♪ And you love the game ♪ (bell chimes) (mumbles) ♪ You were reckless ♪ ♪ We'll take it way too far ♪ ♪ I'm gonna leave you breathless ♪ That was not plural in the song, but it's still the same word, so does that count? Yes. Skin. (clock ticking) Well, I'm gonna keep pickin' my own songs, but I know them 'cause I wrote them. ♪ What if you let ♪ ♪ Told you the world wouldn't end ♪ ♪ If you started showing what'd under your skin ♪ (bell chimes) So the album is called Kelsea, which is obviously my name. And, I've never done a self titled album before, and I think Kelsea feels personal when you don't add in the last name, so the album is that. It's been a really self-discovery kind of few years, while I've been writing the album and all the songs are just different things that I've learned over the last few years, whether it's different kind of perspectives of love as I've been settling into marriage or really introspective stuff like "Homecoming Queen", my single which I think is probably the most vulnerable song on the album. It talks about touring a lot, and the dark and the lights of that. My song "L.A". and missing my hometown, like half my hometown. There's just a lot of different shades of who I've grown up to be right now on it, so it's called "Kelsea" 'cause it's me. A lot of artists really make their defining project their self titled project, and one that we can all talk about is Beyonce. And on her self titled project called Beyonce, I mean it's iconic, the whole thing. But "Pretty Hurts", I remember hearing that and with the background pageantry in it, I was just like... So good. ♪ Pretty hurts ♪ So good. Night. (clock ticking) ♪ Baby, let's just stay here tonight ♪ (bell chimes) ♪ Fever night fever night fever ♪ Crazy. (clock ticking) ♪ You drive me crazy ♪ ♪ I just can't sleep ♪ ♪ I'm so excited, I'm in too deep ♪ ♪ Ooh, crazy ♪ ♪ But it feels so right ♪ ♪ Baby thinking of you keeps me up all night ♪ It's Britney (beep). (laughs) High. Oh, oh. (clock ticking) ♪ She's so high ♪ ♪ High above me ♪ ♪ She's so lovely ♪ That's an old one, I don't know why that's what I picked but can't explain how the brain works sometimes, can we? Myself. (clock ticking) Myself. (claps) ♪ Gonna love myself ♪ (bell chimes) ♪ No I don't need anybody else ♪ ♪ Hey, now I love myself ♪ ♪ No I don't need anybody else ♪ Woo, that was close, I almost didn't make it. Hailee Steinfeld, woo! The recording process of making the album, "Kelsea" it's really been as long as I've been writing it, which has been about two years. But I think the first song that we picked and knew that it was going to be on the album, is a song called "Love and Hate". And, it's a song that I actually, I was doing stuff with The Voice in Los Angeles, and got a call that Ed Sheeran was writing in Nashville with my really good friend who helped me produce a lot of the record, Ross Copperman, and asked me if I wanted to take a red-eye and write the next day. And so I hopped on a red-eye, and I wrote all night on the plane to prep for the writing session. And we went in, we wrote four songs. And this particular song just warmed my soul, and is heartbreaking in the most beautiful, simple way and I think that was the beginning of the album. Which I had written like 100 songs before that, but that was when I was like, this is the start of a sound that I think I can really dig into. ♪ The day that she lied ♪ ♪ I felt it all change ♪ ♪ I crossed that thin, thin line ♪ ♪ Between love and hate ♪ Believe. (clock ticking) ♪ Do you believe ♪ (bell chimes) ♪ in life after love ♪ ♪ After love, after love, after love ♪ ♪ I can feel something inside me say ♪ ♪ I really don't think you're strong ♪ Lips. (clock ticking) ♪ I know you lie ♪ ♪ 'Cause your lips are movin' ♪ ♪ Maybe you think I'm dumb ♪ Friend. (clock ticking) ♪ Well I got friends ♪ (bell chimes) ♪ in low places ♪ ♪ Where the whiskey drowns and the beer ♪ Everyone. ♪ Chases my blues away ♪ Not everyone, mm. ♪ And I'll be okay ♪ That was supposed to be a sing a long, and no one had my back. (laughs) Middle. (clock ticking) ♪ Baby, why don't you just meet me in the middle ♪ (bell chimes) Ah, I feel like I'm redeeming myself. There's a lot of songs that I wish I would've written. I study songs as a songwriter, and there's one country song, well there's a lot of country songs, but one in particular called "The House That Built Me" that Miranda Lambert recorded that... It came out right when I moved to Nashville when I was 15, and it just stopped me in my tracks, it's so beautiful. But... Classic song, "Somewhere Over The Rainbow". I wish I would've written that song, it's... Nostalgic, and it's magical, and whimsical and really really poetic and gorgeous. And I wish I would've lived a while ago and written that. (laughs) ♪ Birds fly over the rainbow ♪ ♪ Why oh why can't I ♪ Lose. (clock ticking) Oh! ♪ I needed to lose you ♪ (bell chimes) ♪ to love me ♪ ♪ To love love, to love love love me ♪ I love that Selena song. She's killing it. (chuckles) Home. (clock ticking) See normally I would do "Homecoming Queen", but I'm not gonna be that person. ♪ Even the homecoming ♪ (bell dings) ♪ Queen cries ♪ Yeah, I'm that person. (laughs) Between. (clock ticking) Between, this is not hard. (clock ticking) (buzzer beeps) Wow. Between you and me, I don't know this one. Dance. ♪ Oh I wanna dance with somebody ♪ (bell chimes) ♪ I wanna feel the heat with somebody ♪ ♪ Yeah I wanna dance with somebody ♪ Classic. Don't. (clock ticking) Last word is don't. There's a few. ♪ Don't go breaking my heart ♪ (bell chimes) ♪ Don't mm with my love ♪ (bell chimes) ♪ That heart is so cold ♪ I'm sure there's more, but those are two. (chuckles) I'm redeemed! I'm allowed to be a musician again, thank God. Thank you guys so much for watching this, I had so much fun doing it. I feel like I got to redeem myself, Hallelujah. Thank you Elle for letting me, and make sure to check out my new album called "Kelsea", out next month. I'm so excited about this album, I hope you love it as much I loved making it for you.

Kelsea Ballerini is back and ready for redemption with her second try at our Song Association game. Watch as the heart-stealing, Grammy-nominated country star competes to get 20 words right, covering hits from Britney Spears, Ed Sheeran, and Cher along the way. Will she rise from the ranks or will it be "Better Luck Next Time"?

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