SURPRISE! Here is the album cover for my debut album #TheFirstTime coming out May 19th! pic.twitter.com/W0ck7xKZYq
— Kelsea Ballerini (@KelseaBallerini) April 1, 2015
Kelsea Ballerini took to Twitter today to reveal the cover art for her debut album, The First Time, and its release date: May 19th. If it’s anything like her debut single, “Love Me Like You Mean It,” or her self-titled EP, expect infectious hooks and pure pop-country charm.
Ballerini chatted with us recently, noting that “First Time,” a slower and more vulnerable song that appears on the EP, was the only song she wrote alone and not in a co-write.
“I’ve always loved words and was a big journaler growing up. One day, my journals and poems just kind of turned into songs,” she told us. “Being 12 or 13 is an awkward age for any girl, so I started writing about that. My parents were splitting up, so I started writing about that, too. Boys started to be cute and weird, so I wrote about that, and I just never stopped writing.”