Suffice it to say that Kelsea Ballerini knows how to stay busy. In just the past year, she co-hosted the CMT Music Awards, appeared on the cover of TIME Magazine, released the critically acclaimed album Rolling Up the Welcome Mat, and wrote and directed a short film to accompany the EP. It's easy to assume that the singer-songwriter is a planner, mapping her goals and her next moves out with precision. In reality, she exudes nonchalance.
"I honestly am just trying to do the next right thing," she confesses when I ask her what's next for her, sitting on the couch in her New York City hotel room. "I feel like last year how we thought it was going to look in January versus how it looked in December were two vastly different years in the best, most beautiful way. I just am really interested in trying not to think too far ahead and to just honor each next right thing. Right now, that thing is making the record."
