{"id":44118,"date":"2025-06-02T05:45:34","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T09:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/?p=44118"},"modified":"2025-06-02T05:09:51","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T09:09:51","slug":"kelsea-ballerini-plans-to-slow-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2025\/06\/kelsea-ballerini-plans-to-slow-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Kelsea Ballerini Plans To Slow Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kelsea Ballerini has been really busy as of late, and is ready to slow things down.<\/p>\n<p>She released her fifth album, Patterns, in October and launched her first headlining arena tour in January in support of the record.<\/p>\n<p>2025 also found the 31-year-old country music star beginning her first season as a coach on The Voice.<\/p>\n<p>During an appearance on Today with Jenna &amp; Friends, Ballerini reflected on what she wants to do next.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u201cI need a break! And I\u2019ve never been able to say that before, but I really think it\u2019s just time for me to pump the brakes, figure out what\u2019s next, have a summer. So that\u2019s kind of my agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Ballerini is set to appear at CMA Fest in Nashville this weekend, and hasn\u2019t ruled out returning to The Voice in the future.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt\u2019s been such a beautiful season of doing things that are out of my comfort zone and bigger than I\u2019ve ever done, and it\u2019s been really fulfilling. I love being in that seat.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qosxk4jBbfI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kelsea Ballerini Plans To Slow Down And \u201cFigure Out What\u2019s Next\u201d After \u2018The Voice\u2019","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":39392,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[6323,68,102],"class_list":["post-44118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-jenna-and-friends","tag-kelsea-ballerini","tag-the-voice"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-12 14:22:12","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country929.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2025\/06\/kelsea-ballerini-plans-to-slow-down\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44119,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44118\/revisions\/44119"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}