Unapologetically

The title track of Ballerini's second album, she calls "Unapologetically" her first "proper love song." She wrote it three weeks after meeting fellow country singer Morgan Evans; the couple were engaged by the time the album was released.

When she started working on the album, Ballerini tried to retrace the steps she took when recording her debut, The First Time, but she realized she was in a very different place as a person and an artist. A breakthrough came when she decided to just be herself - unapologetically. When she came up with the song, she knew she had the title of the album as well. "When I wrote this song, I feel like that's what this is, it's every corner of who I am - happy, sad, good, bad," she told Nash Country Daily. "That's why I picked it as the album title."

Ballerini wrote this song with Hillary Lindsey and Forest Glen Whitehead. Lindsey has written with heavyweights Lady Gaga ("Million Reasons") and Carrie Underwood ("Last Name"). Forest Glen Whitehead is a Louisiana native who co-produced Ballerini's first album and earned writing credits on the tracks "Love Me Like You Mean It," "Peter Pan," and four other tracks from the set.