On Wednesday, at the 56th annual CMA Awards Kelsea Ballerini, Carly Pearce and Kelly Clarkson performed “You’re Drunk, Go Home,” together, punching it up with girl power. They took the stage in coordinating denim outfits to sing along together. The track was originally featured on Ballerini’s album Subject to Change, that was released in September.
Back then, Ballerini stated that, “It’s really my post-pandemic project. Like everyone else in the world, I was forced to sit in stillness and I’m not good at that, I like to be in full sprint all the time, working and playing shows and making records. And that wasn’t an option. In that time I kind of woke up and I was like, ‘Oh, I’m not 19 anymore. That’s weird.’ And I have a lot of life to process and a lot of time to do it.” She continued to say, “I think in that unraveling of all these beautiful, amazing experiences that I had gotten to have over the years in my career and my personal life … it really unlocked this honesty and more so than the honesty, the guts to go there in some ways. And I think that’s heard throughout the whole project.”
After its release, Ballerini reached a settlement agreement with her estranged husband Morgan Evans in their divorce. On September 30th, Clarkson opened up about her state while recording the track when she appeared on The Kelly Clarkson Show. Clarkson remembered, “I get to the studio here with [music director] Jason [Halbert], and I get in there and I’m like, ‘Look, I didn’t know I was gonna be singing today,’ I didn’t know! … So I had to sing a song called ‘You’re Drunk, Go Home’ inebriated, trying to sing first soprano parts like, ‘I’m fine!’ This has never happened to me in 20 years! I’ve never, ever been inebriated while singing something. And [now] I am while singing ‘you’re drunk, go home.'”
The 2022 CMAs are being aired live on Wednesday night from Bridgestone Arena in Nashville.
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