Kelsea Ballerini’s ‘How Do I Do This’ Video Teases Chase Stokes 1st Date

Kelsea Ballerini slipped into her greatest little black gown as she ready for her first date in her official “How Do I Do This (The Final Chapter)” music video.

“They say to get out with the old, you get in with the new / And I haven’t been on a date since I was 22,” Ballerini, 30, begins off singing within the Friday, December 1, video, whereas carrying sweatpants following her divorce from Morgan Evans. “My friend has a friend and they say they’re my type / And then they texted me once / And then they texted me twice / Saying, ‘Are you free Saturday? I know a spot’ / So, I typed out a couple million ways to respond / But I landed with ‘Yes’ / S—t, so where the hell is my dress?”

After nervously texting her future date — which she’s beforehand hinted was now-boyfriend, Chase Stokes — Ballerini will get dolled up in a Cinderella blue gown whereas dreaming concerning the attainable new romance. She continues to primp and sing to herself within the mirror earlier than chopping off her lengthy locks as a part of her new section post-divorce.

In the video, the nation singer rocks a number of fairy story robes in her room earlier than selecting an attractive LBD and sipping wine within the rest room. When the doorbell rings and Ballerini smirks in her mirror after which pauses earlier than strolling to fulfill her new man.

Ballerini launched the music “How Do I Do This (The Final Chapter)” in August as a part of her Rolling Up the Welcome Mat (For Good) EP.

The preliminary album got here out in February and documented Ballerini’s divorce from Evans, 38, which was finalized in November 2022. The twosome had been married for practically 5 years earlier than their cut up.

While lots of the tracks on the report recalled the laborious instances Ballerini needed to overcome after heartbreak, “How Do I Do This,” is a music about her shifting on with boyfriend Stokes, 31, and the nerves she felt earlier than going out on that first date.

“It’s about the nerves of going into a very unknown world,” Ballerini completely advised Us Weekly in August of the music. “And, to me, I felt like since I hadn’t really gotten to share my story in my perspective on what had happened in my life yet, that needed to come second. That is part two.”

The Grammy nominee defined: “I felt like I really wanted to talk about, you know, the breakup, and let that kind of live in one piece. And then if I ever decided to do what we’re doing now — Rolling Up the Welcome Mat (For Good) — then that would be kind of the extension of the story. And especially now, I’ve been in a new relationship for a while now, and people have seen that. So I feel like it’s a really appropriate time to catch everyone up and to be able to move the narrative from the past to the present.”

Ballerini touches on the butterflies she felt moving into her post-divorce courting period within the monitor, singing, “Like, is it wrong to take a shot? / I’m freaking out like ‘Oh, my God’ / ‘Cause now it’s 7:00 on the dot.” She additionally name-drops Kelly Clarkson in a single verse, revealing she referred to as Clarkson, 41, “for a talk” earlier than the large night time.

Ballerini and Stokes had been first linked in January whereas attending the College Football Playoff National Championship in Los Angeles. Ballerini confirmed the connection one month later throughout an look on the “Call Her Daddy” podcast, sharing that she slid into the Outer Banks star’s DMs.

The pair made their pink carpet debut in April on the CMT Music Awards in Nashville and have been giving followers glimpses at their romance ever since.

“We are both very much so golden-retriever energy most of the time, but we both have a little bite in us, and we’re both incredibly driven,” Ballerini advised Nylon of Stokes in October. “He is the first person I’ve been in a relationship with that I feel like is not my complete opposite.”