Kelsea Ballerini opens up about moving on post-divorce, finding joy, discovering herself

Kelsea Ballerini turns 30 years old in 30 days.

She, like many other 29-year-old fans of popular music, has spent the better part of 2023 listening to SZA's diamond-selling global smash "Kill Bill."

Unlike them, though, the Knoxville, Tennessee-area native is a five-time Billboard Country Airplay chart-topping mainstream superstar who is reckoning with the finalization of her 2022 divorce from Australian country performer Morgan Evans.

Her Aug. 11-released EP, "Rolling Up The Welcome Mat (For Good)," is as much a final ode to moving on as it is a continuing series of anthemic Ballerini songs that join her and her fanbase in artistic and personal synergy.