Legends
The lead single of Unapologetically, her fourth Country Airplay number 1.
Kelsea Ballerini, from Unapologetically (2017)
She wrote it around 2015, almost two years before release, in her first co-write with Hillary Lindsey, and told GRAMMY.com it was one of three core songs, with "Graveyard" and "Unapologetically", that shaped the album. Forest Glen Whitehead and Jason Massey produced. Fox News quotes her saying it was written during a breakup, in a period of so much bitterness, that it was a really healing song at the time and is now really a love song; Taste of Country relays that she describes it as a tribute to fans who followed her from the start. It premiered on The Bobby Bones Show on June 7, 2017 and went to country radio on July 10.
Jeff Venable directed the video, which premiered on June 29, 2017, inspired by This Is Us, following a couple from meeting to marriage and the birth of a son, with performance scenes on the cliffs of Big Sur. She sang the song at the 2017 CMT Music Awards and with Reba McEntire at the 2017 CMA Awards. It reached number 1 on Country Airplay in the week of February 24, 2018, 10 on Hot Country Songs and 68 on the Hot 100, and is Gold in the US and Canada. Setlist.fm shows 126 plays. The upload we hold is titled Legends, with the album name; we did not verify it is the studio version.
On stage
- 2017-11-08, CMA Awards A duet with Reba McEntire.
Sources
- Legends (Kelsea Ballerini song), Wikipedia
- Legends, Songfacts
- Kelsea Ballerini wrote Legends from a place of bitterness, Fox News (2017-06-28)
- Kelsea Ballerini talks Legends, sophomore album, GRAMMY.com (2017-10-13)