Kelsea Ballerini and Noah Kahan Joke About Being on a 'Losing High' During 2025 Grammys

Mar. 15, 2025

Noah Kahan and Kelsea Ballerini in 2025.Photo:Kelsea Ballerini/Instagram

Kelsea Ballerini/Instagram

Kelsea BalleriniandNoah Kahanhad a laugh before the2025 Grammy Awards.During the ceremony on Sunday, Feb. 2 at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, the pair bantered on the carpet about “losing” awards.In a video the “Penthouse” musician, 31, shared to herInstagram Stories,she asked the “Stick Season” artist, 28, while laughing: “Noah, what does it feel like to lose three awards for the same song?“Kelsea Ballerini in February 2025.ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty"You actually weirdly start to kinda like it,” Kahan replied. “So I’m on a losing high right now. Woo-hoo!““See you at the Grammys!” Ballerini added.The pair’s collaboration “Cowboys Cry Too,” featured on Ballerini’s 2024 albumPATTERNS, was nominated for best country duo/group category at this year’s award show.On Friday, Jan. 31, the “Mountain with a View” performer opened up about what it means to win — or lose — at awards shows inan interview with Sirius XM.“I don’t win things,” said Ballerini. “I mean, that sounds really, I don’t, and I’m cool with it.“She explained that “certain things” used to make her “cry myself to sleep.““One is when people said I wasn’t country and two is losing awards,” said Ballerini. “And now I’ve changed my relationship with all of it where I’m like, ‘Okay, well people identify country music in different ways.'“To the country star, it’s about writing her “truth.“Ballerini noted that there’s “so much else” that goes into award shows than the literal wins.“And for me, if you get nominated, that means that sometimes if you’re lucky, you get three and a half minutes to sing on a show like the CMAs or the ACMs or the CMTs, you know, and that’s an award,” she explained. “That’s an award.“Now that she’s “rewired her brain,” she’s happy to “show up” and “watch a friend have a good moment.Never miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE’s free daily newsletterto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer​​, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.Kelsea Ballerini in February 2025.David Fisher/Shuttersto"I’m good with it,” Ballerini concluded.The “I Quit Drinking” artist has been nominated for five Grammys in the past, while the “Call Your Mom” performer has been nominated twice.Neither has taken home a gramophone yet.

Kelsea BalleriniandNoah Kahanhad a laugh before the2025 Grammy Awards.

During the ceremony on Sunday, Feb. 2 at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, the pair bantered on the carpet about “losing” awards.

In a video the “Penthouse” musician, 31, shared to herInstagram Stories,she asked the “Stick Season” artist, 28, while laughing: “Noah, what does it feel like to lose three awards for the same song?”

Kelsea Ballerini in February 2025.ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty

ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty

“You actually weirdly start to kinda like it,” Kahan replied. “So I’m on a losing high right now. Woo-hoo!”

“See you at the Grammys!” Ballerini added.

The pair’s collaboration “Cowboys Cry Too,” featured on Ballerini’s 2024 albumPATTERNS, was nominated for best country duo/group category at this year’s award show.

On Friday, Jan. 31, the “Mountain with a View” performer opened up about what it means to win — or lose — at awards shows inan interview with Sirius XM.

“I don’t win things,” said Ballerini. “I mean, that sounds really, I don’t, and I’m cool with it.”

She explained that “certain things” used to make her “cry myself to sleep.”

“One is when people said I wasn’t country and two is losing awards,” said Ballerini. “And now I’ve changed my relationship with all of it where I’m like, ‘Okay, well people identify country music in different ways.'”

To the country star, it’s about writing her “truth.”

Ballerini noted that there’s “so much else” that goes into award shows than the literal wins.

“And for me, if you get nominated, that means that sometimes if you’re lucky, you get three and a half minutes to sing on a show like the CMAs or the ACMs or the CMTs, you know, and that’s an award,” she explained. “That’s an award.”

Now that she’s “rewired her brain,” she’s happy to “show up” and “watch a friend have a good moment.

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Kelsea Ballerini in February 2025.David Fisher/Shuttersto

David Fisher/Shuttersto

“I’m good with it,” Ballerini concluded.

The “I Quit Drinking” artist has been nominated for five Grammys in the past, while the “Call Your Mom” performer has been nominated twice.

Neither has taken home a gramophone yet.

source: people.com