Ella Langley And Miranda Lambert got involved in a light-hearted “redneck” competition about who could get rid of a snake the fastest during a writing session.
But perhaps the most exciting part of the story is the part that has nothing to do with the snake at all.
The two artists talked about the incident during a conversation on Elle‘s “Three Generations” series. Reba McEntire was also on camera, but during this particular anecdote she mostly sat back and laughed at the jokes.
Why did Miranda Lambert get mad at Ella Langley over a snake?
“On one of the last writings we had, we were in the middle of writing and we saw a snake,” Langley remembers. “And I tried to get up and catch it, and Miranda walked out with a shotgun.”
“We were on the farm, all of us,” Lambert adds, laughing. “We tried to outsmart each other, that’s what we did.”
Why did Lambert get mad at Langley? It looks like she never got to use her shotgun.
“The snake was not shot,” Langley said. “I scared it, and that’s why she was mad at me. She said, ‘Damn, I was there.'”
What does that writing session mean for the future of Ella Langley and Miranda Lambert?
In all the excitement about the snake, most fans might not notice some pretty important news: that writing session sounds like it was recent, perhaps even after they finished their work together on Langley’s. Dandelion project.
Langley acknowledged in the interview that “when you find people you enjoy making music with, you don’t want to stop doing it.”
Does this mean fans can expect Lambert and Langley to collaborate more in the future? That seems like a pretty strong possibility.
Lambert co-produced Langley’s Dandelion album and had a hand in writing her massive hit, “Choosin’ Texas.” The project also features a duet between the two, ‘Butterfly Season’.
In fact, Langley says this is the lyric she is most proud of Dandelion is from ‘Butterfly Season’.
“I don’t even know her / That girl from last October / I’d like to show her now / Who we have become / What flowers look like in June / When we do something new” is the phrase Langley pointed out during the Elle interview.
“(It) sums up my life in the past… I mean, all the time,” she reflects. “I constantly look back and say, ‘Wow.’ You don’t necessarily notice the growth when it happens. It doesn’t feel like growth, it feels more like dragging your feet through the mud.”
The 15 Best Ella Langley Songs
Ella Langley emerged into the country music mainstream as a dark horse with an unlikely hit: “You Look Like You Love Me,” a Riley Green duet that was catchy, so to speak, yet featured some unusual (and old-fashioned) stylistic choices, like talking vocals.
But it was a hit. And that turned out to be just the beginning of what Langley had to offer. She continued to dominate with hits like “Weren’t For the Wind” and the crossover megahit “Choosin’ Texas,” becoming one of the most talked-about acts in country music and a bona fide star even outside the genre.
Keep reading for Taste of Country’s countdown of fifteen Ella Langley songs that put her on the map, then rewrote the rules of what traditional country sounds like—and how successful it can even be outside the genre.
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