Lainey Wilson On Being The Only Female Nominated For Entertainer Of The Year & Her Fanbase Overseas | ACM Awards 2024 - video Dailymotion

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Lainey Wilson caught up with Billboard's Melinda Newman on the Winners Walk at the ACM Awards 2024.

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00:00 We're with Lainey Wilson, who is one of the evening's big winner,

00:04 Female Artist of the Year, Music Event of the Year with Jelly Roll,

00:09 and Entertainer of the Year.

00:11 Can you believe that?

00:12 I can. Can you?

00:14 I can believe it. I can believe it because if you don't believe it,

00:17 who else is going to believe it, right?

00:19 That's kind of how I feel about it.

00:21 So after you won CMA Entertainer of the Year, were you like,

00:25 "Oh, this is real. This can keep happening"?

00:27 For sure. I will say, when I looked at everybody that was nominated for it,

00:34 I was like, "Every single one of these guys, they've taken me under their wing in some way."

00:38 Whether they took me out on the road with them, or wrote a song with me,

00:43 or asked me to be on a song with them.

00:45 I mean, Luke Combs used to come over and we'd write together.

00:48 It's just crazy because that's what it's about.

00:50 It's about helping each other over that wall.

00:52 And I'm excited to be able to do that.

00:55 Okay, but the key word is "guys."

00:57 The key word is "guys," and we're going to have some girls coming in hot.

01:01 It's still not where it needs to be. I feel a little bit of a shift.

01:04 But, yeah, there still needs to be a lot more change.

01:09 So you just got back from Europe.

01:11 Yes.

01:12 And then you were in Australia before that.

01:13 Yes.

01:14 What did you feel in terms of, you were going global.

01:17 Yeah.

01:18 And you were singing in countries where English isn't their first language.

01:21 Yes.

01:22 And you're hearing your songs sometimes.

01:23 Yes.

01:24 Does that make you feel like you're growing?

01:26 Well, it just goes to show what country music is doing right now,

01:29 and I'm, like, proud to be a part of that time.

01:33 It's about those stories.

01:34 It's about the storytelling.

01:36 It's funny because my sister called me and she said,

01:38 "Can anybody understand you over there?"

01:40 I said, "Hell, they don't understand me anywhere else either.

01:42 What's the difference?

01:43 There's a language barrier everywhere."

01:46 Were you sitting with your mom?

01:47 I was sitting with my mama.

01:48 Okay, because I didn't know if that was your mom for sure.

01:50 Yeah.

01:51 What did she say to you when you were an entertainer of the year?

01:54 When I went back to my seat, she was holding me, and we were both crying,

01:59 and she said, "I believed it, I believed it, I believed it."

02:02 She believed it before--I mean, I was her entertainer of every year.

02:07 I thought I was, like, trying to get my composure.

02:09 Yeah.

02:10 A little bit.

02:11 That is beautiful.

02:12 Yeah.

02:13 So how are you going to celebrate?

02:14 I'm going to celebrate with my mom and my daddy's here.

02:16 He's feeling great.

02:18 Yeah, just be with my people.

02:20 Do you have a ritual now?

02:21 You've been winning so much.

02:22 Is it like, "Okay, when I win, I go have a steak, I go do a shot of tequila"?

02:28 Do you have a ritual?

02:29 I mean, I'm going to have a couple drinks, but before I do anything,

02:31 I'm about to have some food because your girl is hungry, okay?

02:36 I want a quesadilla or I want something.

02:39 And then are you in heels?

02:40 And I want to take these shoes off.

02:41 I've got plantar fasciitis.

02:44 So you're in pain.

02:45 I'm in pain, but hey, you know what?

02:47 You do what you've got to do, right?

02:49 Happy Big Yarn Day. (laughing)

Lainey Wilson On Being The Only Female Nominated For Entertainer Of The Year & Her Fanbase Overseas | ACM Awards 2024

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