This is the first time that I've gotten to make a record where he's been a part of the whole process," she tells Teen Vogue backstage during a Spotify album preview event in New York.

When Kelsea first emerged a decade ago, she got compared to Taylor Swift, but her pop-wise country has been defined less by big artistic swings than low-key relatability. On career highlights like the 2016 infantilized bad-boy takedown “Peter Pan,