Ella Langley

Langley says she deliberately wrote big, easy-to-remember choruses so audiences could sing along after hearing them once.

“I wanted them to be kind of easy to remember. Big singing choruses, like, you know, you hear that chorus once, and you already knew how to sing it”

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Langley says she has never been more excited about music and believes she has found her artistic identity.

“I've never been more excited about music in my life”

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Langley explains the album title came from learning dandelion tea detoxes the liver and from the plant's resilience, framing it as growth after her record Hungover.

“I found out that dandelion tea is a detox for your liver”

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Langley says she built a playlist of more than a hundred reference songs on Spotify to define the guitar tones, drum sounds and background vocals she wanted.

“I had a hundred and something song reference playlist of what I wanted sonically for this record”

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Langley says she worked on Dandelion for about a year and a half while touring and co-producing for the first time, and calls synchronicity the album's defining word.

“this record, I mean, I worked on it for like a year and a half. So it still took a while. But I keep saying the big word for this record is synchronicity”

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Langley says she needs time alone as a recluse to recharge and contrasts herself with Lainey Wilson, whom she calls superhuman.

“I feel like I have to have time away, like recluse time. And if I don't get that, then I'm like an insane person”

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Langley recounts being extremely nervous performing 'What I Want' with Morgan Wallen and forgetting the words almost every time in front of stadium crowds.

“when I did What I Want with Morgan, I messed up the words almost every single time. I've never been so nervous to go out and do something”

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Langley describes starting out playing weddings at fifteen for $200 and considering herself rich.

“Who would ever hire a 15-year-old to play while you're walking down the aisle?”

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Langley says she toured almost continuously from 2022 to 2025, mostly in a van and later a crowded bus.

“we toured pretty much minus a couple weeks here and there from 2022 to 2025, you know. And I mean, hot and heavy. Most of that was in a van”

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Langley says the mental side of the music career, rather than the performing, has been the hardest part for her.

“I think the mental game for me is definitely... the hardest part of this job. Like, I can do the gigs. I can do the shows”

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Langley says she is her own toughest critic and rarely feels she performed well after a show.

“I'm definitely my toughest critic. You know, like when I watch something, I'm never like, oh yeah, I crushed that”

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Langley says she refuses to compromise her identity for industry convention and rejects the argument that something should be done a certain way because it usually is.

“I was like, well, I don't give a rat's ass what you'd usually do. I do not want to do it like that”

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Langley says she has a hand in every aspect of her work, including co-producing the record, co-directing videos and designing the stage set.

“I'm co-producing the record. I'm writing stuff for the music video, co-directing that. I'm, you know, making the set list for the show”

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Langley says she would not want the ability to read minds because she already has too many thoughts about how others see her.

“I've never understood when people were like, I want to be able to read minds. I'm like, fuck that. I do not want to know what somebody's thinking”

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Langley says growing up in a small town where rumors spread prepared her for how fame works.

“I kind of look at the fame thing like that now, you know? Because when you're in a small town, like, I would hear shit about me all the time”

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Langley says once a song is released it belongs to listeners, and that misheard-lyric memes keep songs alive.

“It's whatever people want to do with the song. You know, once I put it out there, it's like... Who knows what could happen?”

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Langley says she has worked her way up Morgan Wallen's tour from first of four openers to direct support.

“we're direct support this year. We've really worked our way up on this tour. First tour, we were first of four”

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Langley says the title 'Bottom of Your Boots' came from a pep talk her father gave her.

“He's like, you know, I love you from the bottom of my boots to the top of my”

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Langley says her label wanted her to re-record the spoken verses of 'You Look Like You Love Me' and predicted it would be the record's worst-performing song, but she refused.

“They're like, this is like going to be the worst performing song on the record”

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Langley recounts that a church 'judgment house' Halloween event frightened her so much she asked to be saved a second time, which amused her father.

“I got saved again tonight. And he like, my dad pauses the TV. He's pissed off about something”

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Langley argues that being homeschooled let her imagination develop longer than it would have in a conventional school.

“It's like my imagination got to live longer than most schools”

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