Kelsea Ballerini Unveils “How Do I Do This” Music Video

Author Lauren Hoffman

December 1st, 2023 8:10 PM

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - OCTOBER 24: Kelsea Ballerini attends the 2023 TIME100 Next event at Second Floor on October 24, 2023 in New York City. (Photo by Mike Coppola/Getty Images for TIME)

Kelsea Ballerini‘s Rolling Up The Welcome Mat album is the gift that keeps on giving. Today (12/1) the country star unveiled the music video for “How Do I Do This” (The Final Chapter).

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Ballerini released her latest track on her extended version of the album, Rolling Up The Welcome Mat (For Good) back in August. The singer-songwriter’s “How Do I Do This” along with her six other tracks are beyond personal, honest, and truly showcase what country music is all about.

The 30-year-old sings, “I think it’s probably time to keep it moving / I talk a big game that I’m scared of losing / everything I knew about love is ruined / it’s so confusing / so, how do, how do I do this?”

Ballerini first teased the music video which you can watch below on Instagram saying “I’m freaking out like OH MY GOD” and telling her fans to “get your little black dresses ready.”

Just days after attending the 57th Annual CMA Awards in November, Ballerini scored her fourth Grammy nomination for Best Country Album. The Grammy Awards will be held in Los Angeles, California on Sunday, February 4.

“Making this record was simply my way of making sense of a really emotionally complicated place in my life,” Ballerini said in a press statement. “I went to one of my best friends and collaborators, Alysa Vanderheym, and she quietly and diligently helped me write my truth. I really don’t have the words for the pride I feel for this music and the way that it’s connected with people. It’s like nothing I’ve ever experienced. I’m deeply grateful to the Recording Academy for this honor. I am truly beaming.”

Click below to watch Kelsea Ballerini’s music video for “How Do I Do This” (The Final Chapter).

Top Five Fun Kelsea Ballerini Songs

"Yeah Boy" (2016)
A fun song found on her debut album, “The First Time.” The music video for the song is an ode to the 1990s. Ballerini is shown performing the song in a colorful bodysuit in front of a neon backdrop and a brick wall spray-painted with graffiti, with female backup dancers. When the song came out, Kelsea was touring with Rascal Flatts and headlining her own “The FirstTime Tour.”
"Heartfirst" (2022)
This is a song on Ballerini’s “Subject To Change” album, which seemed to catapult her to a new level of fame. Kelsea wrote the song with Alysa Vanderheym and Little Big Town’s Karen Fairchild in July 2021. According to Ballerini, it was the first song that she ever wrote where she did not come up with the title first; instead, the opening line, “Met him at a party / Accidentally brushed his body / On the way to get a drink at the bar” was the first lyric she wrote for the song.
"Dibs" (2015)
The fun song she named her dog after. The official music video for “Dibs” premiered on October 22, 2015. The video consists of footage Ballerini took while on tour in York, Pennsylvania, Greenville, South Carolina, and St. Leonard, Maryland, performing in front of live crowds, celebrating her 22nd birthday, and spending time with her dog. The chorus sings, Yeah, I’m callin’ dibs / On your lips / On your kiss / On your time / Boy, I’m callin’ dibs / On your hand / On your heart / All mine.”
"Hole in the Bottle" (2020)
Kelsea happily joins the country music ranks with a drinking song; a remix of the song featuring Shania Twain was released five months after the original single came out. The music video begins with a vintage black-and-white style with Ballerini dressed in flapper wardrobe reminiscent of the 1920s. Once the first chorus hits, colored scenes are introduced, and she is shown in a house painting a portrait of her dog Dibs in a field with a couple of friends who join her in lounging on a bed and performing a dance routine with the singer and playing chess with herself.
"If You Go Down (I'm Goin' Down Too)" (2022)
This song is a gem and puts Kelsea in the same company of “fun” murder songs like the Chicks’ “Goodbye Earl.” Ballerini said when the song came out, it was actually to evoke thoughts of the 1991 film “Thelma & Louise” and The Chicks’ “Goodbye Earl.” She told us then, “We really wanted to lean into a very ’90s country feel, and so we brought in fiddle for the song, which I think to me makes it. That’s also why there’s a Chicks reference to it, which everyone picks up on, which was absolutely intentional. I didn’t want to make it sound like anything else on the record. I wanted it to be its own moment.”