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Overall, the Knoxville, Tennessee, native says \"there's just a lot going on\" sonically on her third record.

\"There's a lot more country,\" she explains. \"There's also a lot more country pop. We have a song with horns, we have a song with a string quartet. We have two collaborations.\"

Ballerini expects that ultimately, this album will be very different than her last one.

\"'Unapologetically' was a concept record -- top to bottom, if you listened to it, it told a story,\" she explains. \"This is opposite of that. It's quite liberating -- this one's just like, 'Here you go, try and figure this out!'\"

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