Kelsea Ballerini Reveals How She Got Kelly Clarkson & Carly Pearce on ‘S–t Talk’ Song ‘You’re Drunk

Kelsey Ballerini released their fourth studio album Subject to Change

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"Drink and go home" is an upbeat song for impatient suitors.

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she wrote the song with Shane McAnally and Julian Bunetta,

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Ballerini couldn't shake the thought that this track was sung

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She's full of spiky lines like "I have no way of knowing my number.

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" "She thought there was something cheeky about this song," Ballerini says.

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I were friends for about 10 years before either of us did anything.

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