lny Wilson just dropped a new song called countryes cool [Music] again and not only is it an app statement it's kind of a time capsule for this moment of country music hyper relevance Our Moment In the sun when country music is the fastest growing genre and now every pop star is trying to get in on the craze and you already know the big names that helped lead to this becoming a big boom Morgan Wallen Zack Bryan Luke combes Chris Stapleton but there is perhaps no artist that has had a sharper eyes in the past year
than Laney [Applause] Wilson everything she touches turns to gold right now with hit after hit to a roll on Yellowstone to sweeping industry Awards including the Grammy for Best country album a couple weeks ago took giant brand deals Laney Wilson is just on top of the world right now so how did she get there Laney was raised in Baskin Louisiana a town of only about 300 people according to a 2017 profile of her by Billy Dukes Wilson's mother continued the family tradition of becoming a teacher while her dad farmed soybeans corns and wheat from her
little town in Northeast Louisiana Lany Wilson grew up listening to country music she started writing songs when she was nine started playing the guitar when she was 11 and she has said that from a young age it is always something that I've had to do throughout middle and high school Lany Wilson pursued her musical Endeavors even releasing an EP on MySpace in 2006 called and I love this country girls rule I scoured the internet looking for a cover and could not find one even in the way back machine but I admir that she put out
an album with that cheesy and straightforward of a title because I feel like she had to take a lot of crap for that in her school throughout High School Laney Wilson worked frequently as a Hannah Montana impersonator she'd throw on a blonde wig and sing Hannah Montana songs to little girls birthday parties and she has said an interviews in the past that often Laney Wilson would open the show and then Hannah Montana would be the main performer but I learned all 15 Hannah Montana karaoke tracks I would do birthday parties fairs festivals St Jude you
name it I finally hug the wig up but uh it made me it made me some money though I ain't even going to lie that for 5 years and this is another thing I tried to find video evidence of but I had to settle for just a bevy of photos throughout the internet which there are a lot of I must say because Lany Wilson's Facebook has been active for like well over a decade so she has a Litany of old school extremely Millennial selfies she's even got some of what I think are her senior pictures
on there would show a girl that had her mindset on pursuing music After High School Laney Wilson skipped the college route and moved straight to Music City in 2011 to pursue a music career for her first two years in town she says she lived in a camper that was parked outside the studio of the late producer Jerry cupit right over here is where I lived in my Flag Staff bumper pool camper trailer the winters were cold I have to sleep in three or four jackets three pairs of socks just to stay warm who allowed her
to plug in her camper for like electricity and water for 2 and a half years I didn't have to pay rent which was a huge blessing because I was not making any money at this time and for years that's kind of all Laney Wilson was doing trying to write as many songs as possible trying to record when she could afford it trying to make connections and the more I researched Lenny Wilson the more I realized how much sense it makes that everyone in the industry adors her because she just put in the freaking work for
many years to no great Avail before she actually found some momentum by 2016 2017 time Laney had been working in the publishing World writing songs every day and she was starting to release more of her own music songs like dream catcher and tougher were starting to make some waves on the independent circuit and Lany was becoming recognizable not just for her thick Louisiana accent and fun personality but for songs that really emphasized her [Music] resilience and it was out of the publishing world at the recommendation of her one time label mate Jimmy Allen that Lenny
Wilson got the attention of what would become her big break which was signing with broken bow records ly Wilson signed with broken bow label home to people like Jason Aline and Dustin Lynch in 2018 and she released an EP shortly afterwards and then her first official single one called Dirty Looks shortly after [Music] that but it took a couple years for Laney Wilson's music to really start connecting on a mainstream level and this was around the time that I remember first starting Act actually hearing Laney Wilson's name I remember people loving the song Dirty Looks
and then like a little bit after that I remember she was in the music video for her label mate Blanco Browns the get up and then I remember thinking the song WW D was funny cuz it was like what would Dolly [Music] do but in general it was a couple years before Laney Wilson really had her breakout Main stream music moment in August 2020 Laney Wilson released things a man ought to know which became her breakout single yeah this song played with the idea of Laney Wilson knowing how to do some traditionally Blue Collar masculine
tasks but then kind of turns that narrative on its head as she says I would basically know how to treat me better treat a woman better this song connected in a huge way and went all the way to number one on country radio and ultimately led to the release of her album understand what I'm thinking this album marked the beginning of Laney Wilson's working relationship with Jay Joyce one of the most powerful and prolific producers in country music Jay Joyce regularly works with guys like Eric Church The Brothers Osborne Ashley McBride and he's recognizable for
a bit funkier of a sound than the standard kind of country music sound and this is where Laney and him are a great match his love of soul and southern rock fits perfectly with Lany Wilson's Louisiana music background and there's a bit of New Orleans psychedelic scuzzy Rock that's kind of mixed in with her super country writing and you'll hear that on songs of hers like wwwd or grease though it's notable that most of her big singles have been ballads it was also in 2021 that Laney released a collaboration with Cole Swindell called Never Say
Never that became a giant [Music] Smash and it's worth noting that Lany Wilson has been extremely Savvy about the collaborations she has done and there are a lot she had a huge streaming hit with musked bloodline in 2020 and she's been on tracks with everyone from Lucas Nelson to King Callaway to Darren Chris from Glee to Lauren Elena though the three biggest of her collaborations all of which were smash singles were the K Wendell song wait in the truck with [Music] Hardy and jelly rolls save me something inside of broken and it's undeniable that she's
expanded her fan base substantially by appealing to so many other audiences as [Music] well it was in 2022 and 2023 that Laney Wilson's career truly went into overdrive in late 2022 Laney Wilson released the song Heart Like A Truck which became another Smash Hit for her I got [Applause] a this is another driving ballad that is again about Laney Wilson's resilience and it takes the Trope of a country truck song and Laney uses it to describe her own self her own drive her own commitment and dedication and her vocal on this song is probably my
favorite Laney Wilson vocal ever she hits this huge note at the end although the thing that actually blew up the song might have been a good bit shallower social media basically got obsessed with Laney Wilson's butt and granted she does wear very tight bell bottoms often she had a lot of guys obsessing over it and a lot of girls wanting to be like wait I've got a booty like Laney Wilson too and somehow this slow song became kind of a booty trend on Tik Tok Laney even released I think merch it was like lany's dumping
service and in general she dueted a bunch of these videos she kind of leaned into the humor mom and daddy didn't tell me I had another sister and the trend took the song from a hit to a smash though Laney Wilson has expressed that she hopes people actually check out her music for her music and not just for her butt but she is a very Savvy social media user that can't be denied in her [Music] rise and at the end of 2022 Laney Wilson released bell bottom country which has been a game-changing album for her
career the follow-up single watermelon moonshine was another absolute smash drink watermelon moonshine cut the with a little and has drawn comparisons to Strawberry Wine and That's What I Love About Sundays but it's just a gorgeous song it was actually one of my top hit songs of last year and it's hard to overstate how difficult it is for women on country radio to actually have a runaway hit that climbs up the chart fast and both with watermelon moonshine and Laney Wilson's most recent single wild flowers and wild [Music] horses they are racing up the chart which
is just behavior that if you're a chart nerd you never see now on top of all that Laney Wilson also began appearing in the fifth season of Yellowstone how does she have time to do all these things I don't really know but ly Wilson's a freaking worker that was my takeaway from researching her for this video I was like damn how do you do all of this and tour and record new music and duet people talking about your butt on Tik Tok you better take care of that don't but obviously Yellowstone the single biggest show
on cable is a pretty good look for an upand cominging country artist and she plays a musician on the show and gets to play her music on the show and that introduced her to a whole other big wide category people Yellowstone's also great because I really think it serves How Country Laney Wilson has wanted her brand to be there are innumerable examples of artists that come up in country music but ultimately are quite curious about getting into the pop music world Taylor Swift would be an obvious example Marin Morris recently artists like The Band Perry
Casey Musgraves they've been extremely lauded and extremely successful in country music but then kind of gone on to other pastures and I feel like Lany Wilson's like no I I like this pastor in fact I like pastures I like country music and country people and Country stuff and I think the industry has felt very confident and excited about making Laney Wilson one of the faces of the whole genre because she feels so dedicated to country music specifically and there's a reason why every freaking brand wants to work with Laney Wilson right now and why her
Stanley Cup collaboration is flipping for hundreds of dollars on resale markets and she's on magazine covers everywhere and now her personal life is becoming kind of tabloid fod and she's doing a whole headline tour this year to absolutely massive audiences she's just kind of the bell of the ball in the genre right now and like I said she grinded for so long in the publishing World in Nashville that they just like to root for her which I think is very much seen in how she has become a huge Force at Big Country award shows and
I know there's a whole discourse around how like people think Laney is just an identity win because they don't want to give Morgan Wallen Awards but I really don't think it's that simple I think there's a genuine admiration for what Laney Wilson has accomplished but yeah Laney Wilson won Entertainer of the Year at the 2023 CMAs she just won best country album at the Grammys but my favorite award show moment that Lany Wilson has had came when she was winning best female vocalist at the acms and there's this part of her speech where she talks
about and I tell you what everybody in this category didn't just wind up there by happen stance they have worked their fingers to the Bone they have put the Blood Sweat and Tears and years into this and this is how she ends the whole thing for the little girls watching this this right here it stands for hard work if you're going to be a dreamer you better be a doer if you're going to be a dreamer you better be a doer if that doesn't describe Laney Wilson's rise I don't know what does from the Myspace
EPS to the Hannah Montana wigs to living in a camper to grinding in the publishing world and then to working seemingly without ceasing for the last like four years as a recording artist touring artist actress and putting out music that's actually really country thoughtfully written you got to admire it and I think over the course of researching and shooting this video I went from liking Laney Wilson to admiring Laney Wilson cuz she is both a dreamer and a doer and that's how Laney Wilson took over country music I'd love to know your thoughts on Laney
Wilson your favorite songs by her your favorite career Moment by her leave it all in the comments down below let me know if there's anyone else you want me to kind of do a deep dive like this on and uh no promises if I do it but I'll be back with more country content soon all my Social Links my merch my Spotify playlist all that is down below and I'll see you guys soon bye
