Kelsea Ballerini lives her biggest dream: 'It's just so wonderful'

Kelsea Ballerini is looking forward to what New York City has in store for her after moving there.

While judging SoFi's Amplify Your Ambitions contest as CMA Fest kicks off in Nashville on Thursday, June 4, the 32-year-old American singer-songwriter and musician sat with PEOPLE magazine.

Touching on different topics during her interview, Ballerini admitted to the outlet that her recent relocation to New York City will surely influence her music.

She said, "I've made five records and two EPs in Nashville and I think I am in this place in my life where I just wanted to see creatively where changing my landscape and my backdrop, what that would bring out.”

"It's really proving to feel really inspired and different in a good way, but it's, to me, what my kind of country sounds like in a city,” the Subject to Change hitmaker quipped.

Notably, Ballerini’s comments come after she told the same outlet in her April 2026 interview that she was “feeling very Carrie Barshaw” because she had failed to work her stove after moving to New York City.

She said at that time, "I moved here by myself and I'm in an apartment by myself, and I haven't done that in a long time. If I'm in Nashville, I'm with friends and family. And then if I'm working, I'm with people all the time.”

"So, it's really been a new self-discovery challenge for me, but I've gotten to make new friends and they're just so wonderful,” the Cowboys Cry Too songstress confessed.

It is pertinent to mention that Kelsea Ballerini, who dropped her EP Mount Pleasant in November 2025, had been dreaming of living in New York City since she made her first visit at the age of 14 on a choir trip.