Kelsea Ballerini To Share 'More To The Story' On Extended Version Of EP
By Kelly Fisher
August 2, 2023
Kelsea Ballerini revealed the long-awaited release date of an extended version of Rolling Up The Welcome Mat, the EP she dropped earlier this year telling her side of the story of her divorce.
Ballerini has been teasing Rolling Up The Welcome Mat (For Good) on her social media channels, hinting at added verses that she’s performed live and extended tracks that fans have been begging for since the original collection released on Valentine’s Day. The extended version will include the “Penthouse (Healed Version),” “Interlude (Full Length),” and “Blindsided (Yeah, Sure, Okay),” in addition to a new track that wasn’t included on the original EP, “How Do I Do This.”
Ballerini held the first of three exclusive screenings of her Rolling Up The Welcome Mat short film on Tuesday evening (August 1) in Los Angeles, California. Ballerini also hosts a conversation with the intimate crowds, and that’s where she reveals that the extended version of Rolling Up The Welcome Mat is due on August 11.
“There’s more to the story,” Ballerini said on stage, after confirming that the upcoming project would include updated lyrics and extended tracks widely requested by fans. “‘Leave Me Again’ was never the last song.”
@kelseaballerini ROLLING UP THE WELCOME MAT (FOR GOOD). august eleven. “it’s kinda scary opening a wound that time has mended” …but this unexplainably transformative welcome mat had one last bit of rolling up to do 🤍 it’s most important that i articulate that this re-release is for you and you only. the added outro’s that we ended up screamsinging nightly on tour, the lyric changes along a healing journey, hearing you very loudly explain that the INTERLUDE NEEDS TO BE A FULL SONG KELSEA COME ON. plus, a new song to bring the story more up to date. with this, comes a favor. from the deepest and purest part of my heart, i ask that you help this be ours and let the music simply be the music, not dig back into the experience that it was written about nearly a year ago. as a songwriter, producer, artist i’m proud and protective of this EP, and as a woman and human also proud and protective of the new, happy season of life i’m in. my real hope is for us to continue growing, healing, and evolving together with acceptance and kindness (even when we unleash our inner fire breathing dragon singing the new versions of these songs). am i right? 😉
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Ballerini said the EP has been “unexplainably transformative.” She wrote in an Instagram caption: “it’s most important that i articulate that this re-release is for you and you only. the added outro’s that we ended up screamsinging nightly on tour, the lyric changes along a healing journey, hearing you very loudly explain that the INTERLUDE NEEDS TO BE A FULL SONG KELSEA COME ON. plus, a new song to bring the story more up to date.
“with this, comes a favor,” she continued. “from the deepest and purest part of my heart, i ask that you help this be ours and let the music simply be the music, not dig back into the experience that it was written about nearly a year ago. as a songwriter, producer, artist i’m proud and protective of this EP, and as a woman and human also proud and protective of the new, happy season of life i’m in.
“my real hope is for us to continue growing, healing, and evolving together with acceptance and kindness (even when we unleash our inner fire breathing dragon singing the new versions of these songs). am i right? 😉”