Ella Langley On Winning Big at ACM Awards, "you look like you love me" Success & More | ACM Awards 2025 - video Dailymotion

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Ella Langley caught up with Billboard's Lyndsey Havens on the Winners Walk at the ACM Awards 2025.

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00:00We're here with the big winner of the night, Ella Langley. How's it going?

00:03It's going great.

00:04No words.

00:05It's going great, yeah. We were just talking about this. It's funny how I have to talk to everybody.

00:11And I'm just at a loss for words, which I don't know if you've ever met me before, which I don't think you have.

00:16No, this is my first time, and I'm very excited.

00:19Very rarely am I at a loss for words. Can't ever shut up. So this is crazy.

00:23Just give you five awards and that'll do it, I guess.

00:25Yeah. Mom and Dad, you heard it here first.

00:27Where are you going to put all of these when you get home?

00:30I don't know. I really don't know. I might try them out a couple different places.

00:35Yeah, try them around the house.

00:36See how it looks, test it out, coffee table maybe, maybe above the kitchen. I don't know.

00:42So Best New Female Artist is obviously a huge one. A lot of legends have won that award.

00:46What does that one in particular mean to you?

00:49There's so many women that I look up to in this industry, I mean, over so many generations.

00:54I think that award is just one of my favorite things about what has been happening in my life

01:02is the amount of women reaching out to me in this industry that have DM'd me or got my number

01:09and called me or texted me and said, hey, we're here for you.

01:13We know what it's like and just to experience that kind of love from so many other women in this industry

01:20is really special. So for me, that award means, you know, I want to give that back.

01:25I want to pass it down. I want to support those women that I believe in that I think are next.

01:31Has that already started happening?

01:32Are people reaching out to you for advice, being like, I want to get to where you're at?

01:39I've definitely, you know, I think it's just something about the country music community.

01:44It's like we're all, it's not really about levels.

01:46It's kind of just about supporting each other, and it really is.

01:50I've just found that with this community. It's really incredible.

01:55Yeah, that's amazing.

01:56As like an outsider looking, and I always feel that when I come into the country spaces of like,

01:59everyone's working together, everyone's excited to see each other, everyone's voting for one another.

02:05It's a good space.

02:06It's cool. It's very special.

02:08It's, you know, I live, breathe, and eat this job.

02:12I mean, I literally, just it's all I do.

02:15And there aren't very many people as crazy as me, I feel like, to literally only do that.

02:20And so to have people that I can relate to, it's awesome.

02:23Yeah.

02:24So I need to tell you, Keith Urban was here, and he was singing your song.

02:26Oh, earlier I had a rehearsal, and my jacket actually had these tassels on it,

02:33and it wrapped around the microphone stand, and Keith Urban was in there rehearsing too,

02:38and I just like knew he was in there, so I was trying my best to put on a great performance.

02:42And then my tassels got around the mic.

02:44Anyways, I ripped them off, and we didn't have that problem for the performance in real life.

02:48But anyways.

02:49He loves the song.

02:50That's crazy.

02:51I love that man.

02:52Tell him I said hey if you see him again.

02:54I will.

02:54Where's the craziest place that you've heard that song, Out in the Wild?

02:59When we played it, opening for Morgan Wallen.

03:04We, well, I mean, we played it, but the craziest place I've heard that song is theirs.

03:08There's 50,000 people singing that song back to me.

03:12It's nuts.

03:13It's really crazy.

03:14It's just nuts.

03:16And just my last one for you.

03:17Another one that you won tonight was Musical Event of the Year.

03:19I mean, when you, and Riley might be hopping in, I can't tell, but you want to join this

03:25one?

03:25Because it applies to both of you.

03:26I was going to give you questions that she couldn't answer all of the time.

03:28She could answer everything.

03:29But Musical Event of the Year.

03:31I mean, when you were in the process of making this song, like, did it feel like an event?

03:36When did that really hit you?

03:37Like, whoa, this is massive.

03:39I think at first we were both a little weary about the song, to be completely honest.

03:45I mean, there hasn't been a song with talking verses.

03:47A lot of people on my label thought that this song wouldn't do well.

03:51But, I don't know.

03:52I just, I just, we just did it anyways.

03:54And I think what made a difference for us is seeing the fans sing it back.

03:58When I was just telling her about that, the time in Hyde, when we played Hyde Park.

04:01When I didn't tell you we were going to do it?

04:03Well, that time, too.

04:04Yeah.

04:05That time, too.

04:06The first time we did it live.

04:07The first time we played it live was last night of tour last year.

04:10That's kind of how we looked at the song.

04:11We just kind of did it.

04:12You know, we didn't really ask a lot of questions.

04:14And we tried it, and it worked.

04:16There was a week there where you couldn't open your phone and not hear it.

04:19So, everybody was really, yeah.

04:21So, you know, A Night Like Tonight is awesome recognition for a song like that.

04:24And fortunately, we got another song that's doing well together.

04:27And it's just, you know, it's awesome to be on the road together.

04:30Yeah.

04:30Do you foresee more talking verses making a comeback thanks to the success of this one?

04:35I hope so.

04:36I mean, that's my favorite part about country music is the storytelling aspect of it.

04:41So, that'd be sick.

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