Halsey & Kelsea Ballerini's CMT Crossroads FULL EPISODE

yeah that feels good don't make fun of me not yet save it for this not yet tricks i got tricks i don't mind the overcast if it doesn't storm i expect heavy rain so be ready for this scattered showers continue to work their way in you'll need to have the rain gear reset i know there is a cold soaking rain that is just pounding the area yeah we're not scared of the rain you ready oh i'm ready my hands are soaking wet out oh boy welcome to santee crossroads [Applause] you don't get to do stuff like this very often you know where you get to share a stage with someone that like you admire and you're friends with we've literally like sang together in the car in the bar yeah living room in your living room in the kitchen like and now we're gonna go do crossroads yeah what are little kids dreams coming true like you're singing with your friend in the car yeah you do the harmony like you don't understand and now we're doing crossroads like so fun [Music] was my first like big solo song that i had of my own you know closer was kind of like my first dip into the radio world and then bad at love kind of like in the song i sing about a bunch of guys i dated and then i sing about girls i've dated too never got the chance to make a mom because she fell in love a little thing in my life that was scary yeah putting that song on the radio and being like oh gosh like what is everybody gonna think about this and then kind of took on a life of its own and i started seeing everybody singing along to it like people of all walks of life like singing along and it's a pretty universal subject the idea of like i've had a bunch of relationships go wrong and it has suddenly occurred to me that it's my fault it's because of me it's not because of them so i need to work on that being able to take on a really nuanced personal experience and seeing it connect so universally was like a huge moment for me it was also the first time i was like i'm gonna go belt i literally told you today i was like you're gonna have to take that because i was like i can't belt like that yeah that's where the rock voice came out for a second on that one [Applause] [Music] [Music] there's a guy that lives in the garden state and he told me that we make it till we graduate so i told him that the music will be worth the wait but he wants me in the kitchen with a dinner plate i believe i believe i believe i believe the woman's too big but jealousy jealousy jealousy get the best of me look i don't mean to frustrate but i always make the same mistakes yeah always make the same mistakes cause [Applause] [Music] that could finally fix me looking at my history [Applause] [Music] both got away [Music] the same mistakes yeah always make the same mistakes cause you can't blame me for trying you know i'd be lying looking at my history [Music] each time i'm feeling faith each time i'm feeling faith i know that you're afraid i'm gonna walk away each time i feel afraid you know i'm bad [Music] [Music] that could finally fix me looking at my history [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] oh [Music] oh [Music] kelsey oh my gosh fun fact of the day a lot of you know that i'm a fan girl and i actually met this wonderful beautiful woman uh at ascend right here yeah like a year and a half ago at her last tour and uh and just completely like was back there singing castle losing my mind and uh i knew kelsey was at the show and i because i saw on twitter that she was attending and i was super nervous the whole time i was on stage and as if i was and i kept looking for her i kept trying to she had fun the house is she on the side where is she just like i was like this i did actually i did see some videos yeah that was really convenient and then after the show kelsey was backstage and i don't know what came over me but i just ran over to her and i hugged her like i've known her my whole life and i was like we're going out right no no she was like we're going out right it was more like that and we did [Music] it was a solid nashville yeah i'm really proud of you i'm really proud we had a real serious heart to heart that night too about you know the industry and yeah you know everything young female totally we had this moment where i felt like we kind of looked at each other and we were like you get it you know and that's when i knew that we were going to be like friends for real yeah after that yeah yeah that was the moment for sure so one thing that we have in common is that uh we both dated how do i say this we both dated man children guys that just don't know how to grow up you know oh yeah i know all about that let's do it [Music] cause boy i'll let you [Music] you're just [Music] just because you know [Music] [Music] and part of me just wanted to believe [Music] [Music] just because you know [Music] you're just lost boy yeah i know who you are you don't know what you [Music] lost [Applause] you're always [Music] [Music] [Applause] you're never gonna feel me because i started taking the harmony and then i started doing the ad-libs the albums are so sick i know do you want me to do that [Music] we've played each other a lot of music before it's come out yeah for sure i remember when we were in la doing vocals for other girls and i was saying something and i was like i just had this song called miss me more and you're like i know that song oh my god i know you were like explaining to me like i don't a have a phone or radio or like live on the planet like i never would have you you would have listened to it but you were like she's got like eight plaques stacked up in her house for this song she's like i just bought this i just had this little song miss me more and i was like yeah i'm familiar i definitely know it also that day you played me homecoming queen i did which was so awesome it wasn't out yet and you played it for me and i was like wow that is really really good you're like thanks ash and i was like no yeah you don't understand it's so so good and then it came out and i was so excited to go back and listen to it and i listened to it again and was like it's still that good yeah it's not that good and then you had that amazing video it was yeah it was incredible i remember that night in nashville when we met before you left you were like hey i have this one can i get can i get your opinion on this song and i was like duh and through like my crappy tv speaker you played the first cut of without me i know and i was like oh yeah you should probably put that out [Music] [Applause] so you could take advantage of me tell [Music] me thinking you could live [Music] i don't know why [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Music] thinking you could live [Music] i don't know [Music] tell me [Music] [Music] put you [Music] i've had a couple songs that have charted really well and i've had a couple songs that haven't i used to be so concerned about if it's going to hit number one and all that just obviously like we care about that we want it to be hurting we work so hard absolutely but i've learned that sometimes it's okay if it just becomes the song between you and your people yeah you've had record-breaking records and i've had record-breaking records at radio which is crazy because i think if you asked either of us a couple years ago if we thought we'd ever have our music on the radio we would be like i hope but probably not you know so then here we are but i think we also know the power of playing to a crowd that connects with something because they discovered it on their own yeah that's what's what's really special too they're both amazing but in a completely unique kind of way so i take the lead and then she harms but she should go oh my god you like doing that part right i can do that part i do not want to i'll do it for sure [Music] i think we write about the same perspective of like yeah young girl going through breakup totally young girl getting cheated on young girl falling in love carelessly and i think that your production like in your artistry brings out this like fire in the stories and mine brings out like the but it's gonna be fine right i love that optimism though but what's funny is that but that makes it so cool because it's really not that different except you kind of have the perspective of like oh and i have the perspective of like but you also know me in real life which is crazy because i feel like sometimes people hear my music and think i'm like a really dark person yeah and you know that i'm like not at all like super goofy i don't know yeah it's definitely we've had our fair share though of like long serious ducks where i am the dark one and you are the optimistic light who's telling me everything's gonna be okay for sure yeah it's crazy when the thing you love the most is the detriment and let that sink in you can think again when the hand you wanna hold is [Music] i would have followed all the way no matter how far i know oh [Music] i would have followed all the way to the graveyard it's getting real you lock the door you're drunk at the steering wheel oh guys i've been taking myself [Music] no matter how far [Music] i would have followed all the way to the graveyard oh cause i keep taking myself down [Music] i would have followed [Applause] [Music] [Music] till i get where you all the way to the graveyard [Music] oh [Applause] all right let's rock ew i hate that i just said that let's rock everybody let's rock pick out the rock and roll if there is any song that i wish that i wrote it is homecoming queen by calcium [Music] hey homecoming [Music] most of your [Music] [Music] skin [Music] queen cries [Music] did your daddy teach you how to act up [Music] [Applause] dancing with your best foot forward but what if i told you the world wouldn't end [Music] yeah what if i told you the sky wouldn't fall if you lost your composure set to hell with it all not everything pretty sparkles and shines even the home [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh yeah [Music] me you're my first collaboration i am as far as like me yeah me being like hey will you do a song with me yeah yeah that's amazing okay i love that first of all i feel very special yeah for me i've had a lot of really surprising collaborations like like justin bieber and that one kind of caught me off guard because i just started out i didn't even know i was on his radar that was very overwhelming for me at the time most of the time though it's usually more like you and me i've unfortunately done songs with people that i've dated because that's worse than getting a tattoo but i've done it but they also really great songs come out of it and awesome memories so it's like absolutely you can't regret it [Music] [Applause] [Music] but i just kind of want to dance with you a little bit too yeah it be like running around cool we good i can't dance like that in this show crossroads only happens when it is raining picking a cover song for us there was some karaoke that happened at santa's pub some beers involved which makes you very cool in nashville's eyes and then one of the ones i had signed up for us to do was dreams by fleetwood mac and we never got to do it so now we're doing it we're doing it yeah and we're doing it on a much bigger stage yes [Music] oh [Music] listen carefully to the sound of [Music] remembering what you had and what you lost [Applause] and players [Music] and when the rain washes you'll clean you know [Music] myself [Music] you like [Music] is [Music] [Applause] [Music] is [Music] and when the rain [Music] is [Music] they will come and they will go [Music] you know [Applause] you look so cold and i just want to hug you and embrace you give me a towel yeah yeah she's a good person where is your coat i know you're cold a little bit okay put this around you thank you [Applause] [Music] okay cool yeah okay cool and then at the end just noodle yeah i won't noodle noodle around i forgot i had dreams i forgot i had wings forgotten [Applause] [Music] i don't think our music is all that different that's what's really cool about it you and i are really like we're storytellers when you can dress a song up in any kind of production and make it anything really but at the root of it it's all like what does the song sound like when you strip it down you play it with an acoustic guitar yep you know and i think that if you stripped colors down when you play homecoming queen or peter pan and then without me if you put all those songs in a hat i scrambled around and picked him out i think the listener wouldn't know which was mine which was yours yeah you know yeah because like peter pan has that kind of like motif metaphor thing that like i go for a lot you know a song like without me is like a little more direct and emotional and personal yeah like homecoming queen yeah so i feel like our music isn't all that different at its core which is why it's so great when we get to do it together that is interesting though i've never thought about how i feel like country we always write to a hook like we have this like we want to flip it you know like yeah queen cries that's always the payoff moment where i feel like your songs the whole thing like i know you write a lot of your songs as poems totally and you can feel that because like every line you're like oh my gosh oh my gosh that's something that every songwriter in nashville loves and admires about you is just like you don't phone it in like ever i love you for saying that it's the drinks your little brother never tells you but he loves you so you said your mother only smiled on her tv show you're only happy when your sorry head is filled with dope i hope you make it to the day you're 28 years old you're driving like a saturated sunrise it's feeling like an overflowing [Music] [Music] is [Applause] [Music] [Music] is [Music] in the morning when the light came through i know i've only felt religion when i lie with you you said you'll never be forgiven till your boys are too and i'm just awakened every morning but it's not with you you're dripping like a saturated sunrise just feeling like an overflow insane oh you ripped it out you're my masterpiece and i'll get tearing through the pages and the ink and everything is blue [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] his hair he smoked his dreams and now he's so devoid of color he don't know what it means everything is blue [Music] [Applause] [Music] everything is blue everything is blue everything is blue his pills his hands his jeans and now i'm [Music] is [Music] [Applause] [Music] is [Music] i thought i'd miss you i thought it'd hurt me and i wanna kiss you well i thought i'd miss you miss me more though how did that one happen the hook of the song i had on my phone for a long time but it was about someone that is in nashville you know and that people know and yeah so i was like i feel like for me to really be able to drag i did i did the dragging and then like put out the song like three years later so then i had to go back to him and be like we're good now i don't mean to drag you this harshly anymore we're good but i did write this but i did write it and i'm sorry but i'm also not but thank you awesome hi thanks yeah i played with most of my dragging songs i put them out and i'm like you know who you are i put on my old records that i hid in the back of the closet it's such a defining kind of relationship especially for women like both me and you who are by nature independent and strong and fierce and have an identity totally so whenever you are in a relationship like that where you fully kind of give a little too much of yourself and you get out of it and you're like oh let's not let's not do that again all right ladies i'm gonna need you to turn your sass level just to a solid 12. here we go [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] is [Music] [Music] and i thought [Music] and [Music] [Applause] and [Music] [Music] and i thought i'd miss you but i'll miss me more [Music] [Applause] [Music] thought 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Channel: CMT Crossroads

Views: 3,372,877

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Id: v-Bdtr1GUsY

Length: 41min 40sec (2500 seconds)

Published: Sat Oct 24 2020