Kelsea Ballerini Brought The House Down At The 2023 MTV VMAs Outside The Hall!
The country singer, who also celebrated her 30th birthday the same day she performed, performed her ballad “Penthouse” near the end of Tuesday’s awards.
During her set, Ballerini was surrounded by fog, lights, string players and an outdoor audience, while wearing a stunning white dress. But that dress didn’t stay on for long, as she switched to a black dress before her grand finale.
After singing the lyrics “And it stings rolling up the welcome mat/Knowing you got half”, the musician shocked the crowd with an instant outfit change, which certainly left an impression on her birthday.
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Ballerini, along with Lil Wayne, Doja Cat and Anita, have been confirmed to perform at the awards show back in August. The artists joined previously announced acts including Demi Lovato, Karol G, Måneskin and Stray Kids on stage.
The “Miss Me More” singer’s performance comes weeks after wrapping up her Heartfirst Tour, which she previously discussed in an interview with PEOPLE last month during her new partnership campaign with Sonic.
“It was amazing,” Ballerini says of the concert, which made several stops around the country. “Just watching the music evolve and the connection and the singing get louder and stronger over the last six months has been really crazy.”
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Kelsea Ballerini performs onstage at the 2023 MTV VMAs.
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Ballerini also released an extended version of it Roll out the welcome mat EP titled Rolling up the welcome mat (forever) August 11
She described in the statement Roll out the welcome mat as the next chapter of her latest album, 2022 Subject to changesand noted that six additional songs were created by her writing therapeutically through dark moments.
“These are six songs I wish I had last year. It’s about the complexity of the feelings you go through during a big change in your youth,” she said of the project. “Roll out the welcome mat how I processed everything. It’s how I got my feelings out of my body and my heart and put them to music — which is the purest way I could handle it.”
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Several songs on the album referenced Ballerini’s divorce from fellow country singer Morgan Evans, which was finalized in November. She has since moved on, confirming that she is dating Foreign banks star Chase Stokes on the Call Her Daddy podcast in February.
The 2023 MTV VMAs air live from The Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey on Tuesday, September 12 on CBS and BET, BET Her, VH1, Comedy Central, CMT, Logo, MTV , MTV2, Nickelodeon and Paramount Network. Viewers can also watch the show via the MTV.com live stream or on Paramount+.
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