I love that and those songs are gonna be so fun to play live, but at the same time, I felt like I was doing myself a disservice, especially after writing the book, not having songs that were just painfully honest where no one questioned who wrote it. I was listening for the first time and I realized that a lot of the songs I was stepping into a character for muscle memory. I was listening to the first 10 songs that we cut. “Doin’ My Best.” This is the truth of it. When I listened back to it, it brings me back to ‘Love Me Like You Mean It.’ What’s the song you’re the most proud of? My favorite thing about that song is it honors the poem, but it’s something also sonically that reminds me so much of my first album. In the south, you’re raised to think love is this fairytale, you get married and it’s grandiose and you’re going to go to Rome and the fireworks are going to shoot off a building when you have your first kiss. I went into a session and I just read the poem. The only one that made itself into a song is ‘The Little Things.’ That was one of my favorite poems in the book. Were any of the poems from the book made into songs on the album? You wrote a poetry book, Feel Your Way Through, earlier this year. In that forced stillness, I finally got to know myself and realized that I wasn’t 19 anymore. We made an album and then made another album. I wrote a book and that helped me process a lot of my big feelings. Just in that stillness, I had a lot of unraveling to do. Having the time to sit with myself and my thoughts during the pandemic, it was the first time I was forced to slow down since I was 19. Growing up has been a gradual process over the last few years. In those point-two seconds, we wrote “Subject to Change.” In the song and the chorus, it’s like, ‘I haven’t decided if I’m gonna stay brunette.’ And indeed, I decided I’m not going to stay brunette, and that’s just telling of the whole record. Can we write it?” We had the discussion on do we make it really broad? Do we tap into the fact that everyone’s had to deal with change in the last couple of years? Or do we make it oddly specific? We ended up making it all these specific things and it makes me chuckle now because for point-two seconds I had brown hair because I just felt like it. I wrote down the title Subject to Change in my phone, and I knew that that was going to be the title of the record whether I wrote the song or not, but I went into a session with with Karen Fairchild and Alyssa Vanderheym, and I just said, “Hey, guys, I think this is the record title. It was when I was sitting down listening to those 80 original songs, and I realized what the theme was. How did you come up with the title Subject to Change? Everything is subject to change, but zooming in and appreciating what you have in the moment is a huge lesson I’ve taken away.”Īhead, Ballerini talked to StyleCaster about how she came up with the title for Subject to Change, the other title she considered and the song she relates to the most at this moment. “We’ve all had that lesson the last couple of years. But then there’s also acknowledging that life happens in seasons,” Ballerini says. “You hear a lot of that self-realization in the record. I’m not a kid anymore.’” The album’s title also reflects what Ballerini, as well as millions of people across the world, have experienced after two years of change and unpredictability. I feel like I’m finally an adult all of a sudden. I loved that theme because it’s certainly where I’m at as a 28-year-old woman where I’m coming into myself. I realized there was a lot of self-reflection, a lot of juxtaposition, a lot of contrast, but a lot of feeling settled. I was listening through 80 songs at the time. I try to find what the throughline and theme is,” she says. “When it’s time to start making a record, I listen to the year and a half or two years of demos I have. Ballerini, who calls the record her “first grown-up album,” wrote more than 80 songs for the album before she narrowed it down to 15. “You’re Drunk, Go Home” is the 12th song on Ballerini’s fourth studio album, Subject to Change, which debuted on September 23.
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