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Kelsea Ballerini has been winning awards and selling records for almost 10 years, but it wasn't until recently that she started feeling confident in her artistic abilities. It came up an interview with "Nylon" magazine.
Quote, "I've always had this complex that people don't think of me as a credible artist, that people are like, 'She got signed to a label and she had a number one right off the bat, she's blonde, she's glittery, she posts stuff, she's this personality.'
"That's the thing that I care about the actual least. I have fun with all of that, but I've never cut a song I didn't write. I never will."
Things changed when she poured it all out in her "Rolling Up the Welcome Mat" album. Quote, "[That] album has made people think of me in more of a rooted, grounded, 'I'm a real artist' kind of way.
"Maybe that's something I shouldn't have cared about. But I do. Maybe that's just a notch in my belt that I had to get to feel validated. But I do feel that now."