Kelsea Ballerini will not tolerate any fans shouting rude comments in the middle of their concerts.
Ballerini, 32, performed a live show in Sydney, Australia on Friday, December 5, where she treated the audience to a stunning acoustic rendition of “Penthouse.”
Midway through the breakup ballad, a participant shouted in the crowd.
“F*** off,” Ballerini retorted, before continuing with the song.
THE Mount Pleasant The artist later shared footage of the now-viral exchange via social media.
“Respectfully, if anyone shouts anything disrespectful towards anyone again during this song, it will no longer be on the setlist,” Ballerini wrote via her Instagram Stories on Saturday, December 6. “Please let this be a song that matters to people and not a place to insert yourself into a world that doesn’t exist and was never yours to begin with.”
She concluded: “The team is happy or everyone is out of business. Please.”
Ballerini wrote “Penthouse” for her 2023 EP, Rolling up the welcome matwhich detailed his divorce from Morgan Evans. (Ballerini and Evans, 40, were married from 2017 to 2022.)
“It hurts to put shit in a box / And now we don’t talk anymore,” Ballerini sings, detailing the move from the apartment the then-couple shared in Nashville. “And it stings to roll out the welcome mat / Knowing you got half of it.”
In another part of the song, Ballerini talks about kissing “someone new last night” and seemingly moving on.
“Now I don’t know where you sleep, baby,” she said. “We got along great, until I wanted to leave, now I know you hate me.”
Ballerini later replaced the lyrics “I don’t know where” with “I don’t care” during his concerts.
“All About How Music Connected [with people] was really unexpected,” Ballerini said exclusively. Us every week in August 2023, with reference to the EP. “When I started singing ‘Penthouse’ live, it kind of changed and evolved every night. One day, on a whim, I just changed a word and it took on a whole new life and they said, ‘We need this version.’ It’s called “The Healed Version.” I never invented that! It was [the fans].”
Ballerini further emphasized that she has moved on from her emotionally charged divorce battle.
“I’ve just gotten to the point where the songs and what they were about — obviously it’ll always be a chapter in my life that I bookmark with this album — but I don’t have those feelings about it anymore,” she said. We. “Now it’s just this thing that has connected me to people and I want to be able to say thank you to them by giving them what they asked for through this music. That’s why I’m so excited about it. My only feeling towards it is gratitude.”
The same year, Ballerini began dating the actor Chase Stokes. After two years together, the couple decided to separate last month.
A source said We that Ballerini and Stokes’ romance had become “so difficult and toxic.”
“It was too much for Kelsea,” the source said, claiming the singer had “a lot of trust issues.”
