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Lainey Wilson is Waiting for Hardy to Pay Up + She's May Have Just Teased a Collab with a SUPERSTAR! · Inside Country with Wayne D

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  All right, it's Wayne Dan. I gotta tell you right now. The
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  first time I met this girl, she's like, oh, nice to meet
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  you. Now she walks into a room and everybody knows her name. She
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  can't go to an award show and not bring extra space in her luggage because
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  you know, damn well, she's gonna have to leave with something. Ladies
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  and gentlemen, the award winning, stunningly talented and gorgeous scale herself. Landy
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  Wilson, how are you? You'm a hype my end? You just feel
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  good? Some artists need like a hype video on a hype track. Just
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  let me get out there. I know you ought you ought to do that.
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  You start coming to the shows with us. How funny wouldn't be if
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  you started your show like a rap like a rap show. I'd be like,
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  y'all need to get up. When I say Landy, you say will
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  it's Laney, and then you're like, I gotta huya thank. I mean,
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  you know it's about trying something different, stepping outside of your comfort zone.
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  Let's do it. Speaking of that, how much of this is is
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  in your comfort zone? Because you know it's what did you call it?
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  Like a ten year overnight success or whatever, because you literally have gone from
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  zero to one hundred and it just keeps going. Another award, show passes
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  and Leaney Wilson's got more hardware. Are you comfortable in this space yet?
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  It's a weird. It's a weird feeling because I say yes and no.
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  Yes. I feel like the twelve years of being here in Nashville has like
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  prepared me for all these incredible moments. I don't know if i'd have been
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  even ready a year ago. But also no, because I don't know if
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  you can fully actually prepare for um, like what's really happening. I'm trying
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  to hold on for dear life. Boy, I'm like, we off to
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  the races? Is it is crazy? It's crazy. I mean last year
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  I played a show in tusca Loosa and sold eighty seven tickets. Shut your
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  mouth, I'm not playing. I'm not playing now. I got eighty seven
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  family members saying hey, I'm coming to the show. I'm like, where
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  were you last year in Tuscaloosa? Right? Like I could have used y'all
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  just saying it When it comes to that, what's been the toughest thing to
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  get acclimated to LifeWise, because your life isn't the same today as it was
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  a year for sure. I mean, even like last year, you know
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  you had. I had a million things I had to do, Like I
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  told y'all, I've slept in my bed fifteen nights last year. But it
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  seems like a quarter of those things I had to do were like really really
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  important, and like a lot of pressure comes along with it. Now it
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  just seems like everything is huge, and so there's an extra I had a
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  layer of pressure, but I do better under pressure. So let's do it.
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  Yeah, you're doing pretty fine. I wouldn't worry about it. You
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  just wrapped up a massive number one song with Hardy That Did that feel special?
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  Did it? I mean it felt special because obviously the topic is something
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  that is rarely addressed in music. But did it feel like it had the
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  potential to go above just connecting and actually be a massive song like that?
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  I knew it when he sent me that song last summer in the airport.
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  I mean, He's like, this is the best song I've ever written,
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  which is hard for me to believe because I think everything the boy writes is
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  just it's just great. He's a storyteller. Yeah, so, Um,
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  I knew that it was gonna grow a set of wings. I didn't know.
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  I didn't know if radio would play it, but I knew that,
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  Um, with the kind of fan base that he has, that it was
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  gonna spread like wildfire. And I'm so thankful to be a part of it.
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  Especially. I mean, he's just one of my He's one of my
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  boys. You know, he's like a brother to me. And to get
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  to do that, to get to share such a special song with somebody who's
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  like blood to me, it's just special. When you are a part of
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  a tour, usually you will get a gift towards the end of it,
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  right, It'll be like, oh, you know, thanks for being part
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  of the tour. Here's Jordan Davis told us when he was with Kane Browne,
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  he gave him a Rolex at the end of the tour. Is that
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  the same with big songs like that, when when you do a song with
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  someone there like you know, congrats number one, here you go, thanks
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  part of it. He did text me the other day and he said,
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  I got you a gift and I'm like, well, I don't have it
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  yet because he was out of town. And then I out of town.
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  We just haven't been here at the same time, so Hardy. If you
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  listening, brother, you better give me my gift. Listen, I didn't
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  get you one. Your gift wasn't. When it comes to your plans the
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  rest of the year, it's interesting because when you agree to be a part
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  of somebody else's tour, you're agreeing to be a part of it where you
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  are at that time, right right, well now, since you've agreed to
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  be a part of these tours, Landy Wilson Stock has done nothing but gone
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  up right, She's the Tesla country music that gets edited out. I'll tell
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  you that, uh put the Tesla people in country music. Gonna slap me
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  for talking about electric cars. Um, but do you look now like,
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  well, y'all better enjoy this because you might be opening up for me next
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  time. Oh. I'm definitely like, I'm soaking it in. Um.
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  It is wild because it does feel like we've kind of been shot out of
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  a cannon. And a lot can happen in a year, you know.
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  I mean like Luke asked me to be a part of this tour probably a
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  year ago, and um, yeah, a lot can happen and change.
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  But you're right. I tell all them boys, I'm like, y'all gonna
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  be hoping it up for me one day. Y'all don't even know it,
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  but that is the plan. That's the goal. I hype and then I
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  intro Luke Combs and then Lady Wilson closes the show. That sounds like the
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  best tour you the hype Manum, have you had downtime? I mean,
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  because now we're going into a brand new single. What's we're going to touch
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  on in a minute here? But you had mentioned, uh, last time
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  we caught up before the ACM Awards that like you miss writing, you miss
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  like sitting in like having your time. Have you gotten to do that?
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  I have, um a little bit. Like last week I got to go
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  out to Miranda's farm and we wrote some songs, and so it's a it's
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  like, yes, I'm kind of getting to slow down and breathe, but
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  I'm also still working. You know what I'm saying. The work. The
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  work ain't ain't stopping right now. And that's all right. I mean,
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  it's just you just like get on down the road and it's not going to
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  always be this busy, Yeah, but it is right now, can I
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  tell you how cool your life is? You went from probably three years ago
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  to not really knowing Miranda Lambert at all, right, and you just first
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  named her and oh yeah, I did. I did you know what I
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  told her the other day too? I said, it is so weird that
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  this is not weird that you were my friend. And she was like,
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  oh, I was like, for real, I said, I said,
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  I don't even know if I've gotten a chance to tell you how big of
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  an influence you have been to every female in this town I'm talking about.
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  She was like, don't lie, she said, you know, uh,
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  Leanne Walmac influenced me and you both. I said, of course she did.
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  She made me feel like I could do anything. I set my mind
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  too with I hope you dance, but Miranda made me feel like I could
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  burn it down at the same time. That's true. That's true. And
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  how do you keep how do you keep cool in a situation like that?
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  Because as you do get closer with somebody that you admire professionally and maybe maybe
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  motivated you are inspired you, but they all of a sudden become a friend.
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  How do you how do you manage that? Right? Because it's tough
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  because you were a fan. You just said, right, you were a
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  fan of Miranda. You were before anybody knew your name or before you could
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  even sell eighty seven tickets to us, So like you loved her work,
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  Oh my god, and now she's somebody you went to Miranda's farm and hung
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  out as like her buddy. It's um, just like I said, it's
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  it's weird that it's not weird. Um, I feel like me and her
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  really do have a whole lot in common. Um, She's just she is
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  exactly who you think she is. It ain't no boot on. I mean,
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  like Miranda Lambert is is what you think. And um, and I
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  love people like that. And so I think because it's her, because she
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  is so normal, probably just makes me feel more comfortable. Um. I
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  mean, I remember I was fourteen years old, my very first CEMMA fest,
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  and they were selling these these little framed pictures of of people playing shows.
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  And I found a picture of her. She was wearing like a turquoise
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  shirt, playing or guitar, and I had it framed literally, just a
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  picture of Miranda, like not signed or anything, just framed in my room.
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  And so I don't know if That's that's why I feel like I know
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  where because I'm like i've I've known you for a while. You're the first
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  thing I saw when I woke up. Side note, don't tell her this
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  story. Yeah, yeah, I'm Branda. How you didn't hear that?
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  You didn't hear it here? So we are diving into a brand new song,
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  which will be the next thing I ask, but I wanted to start
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  with Landy Wilson has phenomenal music out there, and when you work with anybody,
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  no matter who it's been so far, the outcome is another fantastic song
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  that you're a part of. But for somebody who's just getting to know you
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  or comes to a show, what's a song that people would be floored that
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  you know? Maybe it's a song you get down to it and I'm not
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  talking like country, I'm talking like, yeah, okay, other end of
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  the spectrum. What's a weird song that Laney knows the words too and loves.
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  I don't know if you'd say it's a weird song, but we covered
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  the song a lot in some of my live shows. But rock and roll
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  hoochieko oh yeah, rock hero Hoochie. Everybody's like, what in the world.
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  I'm like, you, dang right, we're making a country. We're
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  making it country. It's so much fun. I said today, I'm gonna
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  ask this question. If she busts out like Tupac California Lover or something,
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  I'm gonna follow. Can you imagine me try? Like no, like,
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  I know what I can do, and I know what I can't do,
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  and yeah, I say, I know a little bit of Uh, you're
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  gonna be shocked. But back in high school, I learned every word to
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  Colt forty five. You know what I'm talking about. Yeah, oh yeah.
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  My parents were like, you have got to stop saying that you need
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  to go to church. You go to church. You're like, y'all back
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  off. Yeah, let me be and I would there's somebody listening somewhere that
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  is dying to know this next question. And I swear to God we're here
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  to talk music. We'll get to the new single. Hey, all of
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  it? What is Laney Starbucks order? What is it today? This is
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  a Grande iced brown sugar oh something shaking express. So I got all that
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  backwards, but y'all know what I'm talking about. It that's what this is.
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  But then I got the sweet cream on the top the home. See,
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  I'm like, it's basically deserted. I'm trying to fit into a smaller
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  T shirt, so I'm very far. It's like, yeah, take us
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  to the new single, and out of everything you've given us so far,
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  why does Watermelon Moonshine make sense for the summer? Because the other thing is
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  when I heard the name, I was like, oh, this sounds like,
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  you know, summer, and then I put it on and it's it
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  gives you a summer vibe, but not like at the beach runner around.
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  It's like Ta goes, it's a sun going down summer, you know,
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  chill vibe. It's a vibe and I googled vibe. So it doesn't make
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  sense to what she was saying. But why why for you? Were you
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  like this is this is where I'm at and this is what's coming next?
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  Well, um, I felt like it was the first of all the song
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  that was raising its hand at like my shows and stuff. It seemed like
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  everybody knows all the words to heart like a truck, and it really seemed
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  like they were they were belting Watermelon Moonshine, And I really try to pay
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  attention to that I'm like, Okay, what songs are really carrying over in
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  my live shows? But also where I'm at personally right now is I feel
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  like I'm I'm in a place where I'm trying to do anything I possibly can
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  to stay grounded and remember where I come from. And that song does it
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  for me. It takes me back to that young, naive, little Laney
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  who thought she knew it all. I mean, every time I get to
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  singing on stage, I feel like I'm back in basking back on the back
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  roads, hiding the liquor in the back seat, hoping mom and Daddy don't
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  smell it on me when I walked through the door, like those kind of
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  stories, and I want to sing about those kind of things that that I
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  still feel like me when it comes to picking like the radio single right It's
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  it's probably something that you never even thought of as you were trying to walk
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  in the door. You're like, I just want to make music. How
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  much time do you put into something like that? I mean, you've mentioned
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  that it's it had its hand raised? Was there anything else that You're like?
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  Yeah? But what about I feel like, I mean, I'm partial
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  because it's my record, but I feel I feel like there are a handful
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  of songs on there that that could be radio songs. I definitely have to
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  think about those things. I try not to when I'm like choosing which songs
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  to record, but after the project is done, I'm like, Okay,
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  if any of these were played on radio, what can I what can I
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  imagine driving down the road and listening to And this was one of them.
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  I mean, it just felt like it could It could be one of those
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  songs that you get out there and you built. Or also it could just
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  be in the background and it feels good. Uh. I also have to
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  ask, as the album was coming out, there's statues down the street from
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  our studio here in Nashville that were dressed in bell bottoms. Where are those
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  bell bottoms now? Because I think I saw your instagram. Didn't somebody steal
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  didn't somebody? Somebody somebody ripped off a couple pairs of the bell bottoms and
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  took them with them. I'm like, my dear friend Shelley over at the
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  label, she um it was her idea. She was like, we need
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  to put some bridges on these bill bottoms, and that's how we're gonna celebrate
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  this album release, and people loved it, loved it so much they had
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  to go steal them. I wonder who that was, Miranda, Miranda did
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  it? Miranda give us our Bill Bottoms back. I will tell you I
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  appreciated those statues wearing pants because when I drive by him with my son he's
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  seven, he goes, I'm like, nah, yeah, some things I
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  needed some clothes. You mentioned hanging with Miranda and writing. You have done
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  an amazing job with collaboration so far in your career, and so I'm going
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  to ask the question that isn't ready to be announced, even if it's coming
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  Laney and Miranda single, It's got to happen at some point. It has
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  to. We wrote some great songs together. Does any of it, because
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  I know you don't write a song as a collaboration. It just happens,
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  right. Did you guys work on anything that felt like we might have to
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  be on this one together? There were? There were pretty much all of
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  them. Especially when she was kind of doing her thing in behind me as
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  I was saying the demo down, I just felt like, hey, let's
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  just collaborate on all three of them that we wrote. Let's just put out
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  a record together. Um, it's got to happen at some point. It
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  definitely needs to be the right thing, But I think that will kind of
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  organically happen. I want to write with her some more and and see,
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  you know, do we go sassy, do we go more down home?
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  What is that? Because I think I think we could do either. And
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  the other thing I wanted to say is everybody gives you credit for the bell
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  Bottoms, that that you're rocking right, You've you've definitely brought bell bottom back
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  into country. But nos, no disrespect to that. Your hat game is
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  ridiculously fantastic. There's not a hat Landy camp rock. I feel well today
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  I'm wearing a paper boy head. I'm a going to go deliver your mail.
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  Yeah, that is funny. I was gone the headlines. Um,
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  I'll say it's so funny because I'll look out at my shows and I mean,
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  everybody's were bill bottoms and everybody's wearing hats, and you can just see
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  people trying to peek around each other because everybody's hat is so dang big.
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  They're like, coming to a Landy Wilson show is like who you're there to
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  hear it you're not. Yeah, yeah, you can't see it, but
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  you can hear it. What made you decide and listen to hard hitting questions
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  always happening with us? What made you decide to not wear a hat during
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  the ACM performance? Because I've seen you a hat so much. I was
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  like, I know, is that lady, Yeah, there's some AI.
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  Yeah, yeah, like what I will say? I felt like UM.
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  For televised performances so far, I hadn't been able to show that, like
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  that real sassy, um, kind of over the top thing. It's been
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  you know, things A man, I don't know, it's been hard,
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  like a truck. It's been waiting the truck and um or never say never.
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  And I was ready to be like, you know what, I got
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  this other side to me too, I can I can shake a leg and
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  um. I felt like, well the performance that I did, I was
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  kind of like tossing my hair back and forth, and I knew the hat
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  was gonna come off either way. So it was like the best thing for
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  me to do is toss this thing and show people that kind of be a
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  little more vulnerable and be like this is me too, with or without the
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  hat. There it is Landy Wilson, thanks for stopping bye. We appreciate
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  you. Love y'all,