Kelsea Ballerini Makes It Rain In Her Own Personal Park At 2025 CMA Awards

Kelsea Ballerini's 2025 CMA Awards performance was interrupted by her own rainstorm.

Ballerini performed her vulnerable new single "I Sit In Parks" at the 59th CMA Awards in Nashville, Tennessee, on Wednesday (November 19), creating her own personal park on the stage. Sitting on a singular swing in the middle of a field, backlit by a sunset and surrounded by wildflowers, Ballerini sang about her dreams for motherhood, wondering if she "missed the mark" by "chasing things a body clock doesn't wait for."

The scene abruptly changed after the second verse as rain poured down, a fitting tribute to the inner turmoil Ballerini faces in the track, battling her desire to focus on her career while comparing herself to peers who have started a family.

"I Sit In Parks" is part of Ballerini's new six-track EP Mount Pleasant. She recently described the record as a "pulse check on myself at 32," adding that an EP is "the safekeeping of big thoughts and important chapters." The project marks her first release since dropping her 20-track deluxe edition of Patterns in March.

Led by return host Lainey Wilson, the 2025 CMA Awards featured a host of incredible performances, including Ballerini, Brandi Carlile, Megan Moroney, Kenny Chesney, Luke Combs, Ella Langley, Old Dominion, Shaboozey, Zach Top, Riley Green, Miranda Lambert, Little Big Town, Keith Urban, The Red Clay Strays, Chris Stapleton, BigXthaPlug, Tucker Wetmore and Stephen Wilson Jr.

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