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Lainey Wilson’s New Music Will Show A Different Side Of Her

Author Nancy Brooks // Country Writer, Beasley Media Group

Lainey Wilson’s latest album, Bell Bottom Country, is nominated next week for the coveted Album of the Year award at the CMA Awards on Wednesday (11/8). The album already took the same honor in May at the Academy of Country Music Awards. That project really catapulted Lainey into country music superstardom, and now she’s been working on the follow-up album.

We asked Wilson last week about the new music she has coming, and she gave us a tease of what she’s been writing about. She said, “I will say I feel like with every record that I write, and I feel that with every show that I play, I’m just figuring out who I am just a little bit more. And the truth is, I don’t think I could figure it out anymore, but I just do.”

She continued, “I’m in a happy, healthy relationship, and so you’ll hear some of those. It ain’t gonna be all floofy like all butterflies in my stomach; I’m dancing around in a sundress. That ain’t gonna happen (laughs). It’s gonna be more like an empowerment like, ‘I got a good man who loves me and supports me.’ So that’s definitely gonna show that side to me that I don’t even know some people knew existed, but it does.”

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Lainey noted that as busy as she has been, she has to stop and live a little more life before the new music develops. She told us, “I have made sure that we have carved out time for me to live my life so I can write things that people are gonna be able to relate to. The truth is, if I didn’t do that, I’d be writing about airports and tour buses. And that’s not very relatable to the folks that I’m singing to. So, it’s making sure that you’re living to write.”

After the CMA Awards, she’s got some well-deserved downtime coming. Wilson strives for the small steps in life a lot these days, “For me, it’s even little things like face-timing my nephews back at home. If I have an hour to sit in the back of the bus and call and just listen to them scream and like put each other in a headlock, that makes me feel at home. It makes me feel grounded. I am getting a little more time at my house here lately doing laundry and stuff like that.”

Five 2023 CMA Awards Lainey Wilson Should Win

  • Female Vocalist of the Year

    This is an award she won in 2022 from the CMA, and in this category, the CMA often repeats if a particular star has had such a good year as Lainey has. Let’s not forget Miranda Lambert took this award home seven times. Reba McEntire won the honor four times in the 1980s and 1990s. It feels like Wilson is a shoo-in for this win.

  • Album of the Year

    Having won the Academy of Country Music’s 2022 award for Album of the Year, Lainey can also win this from the CMA. The album was one of the year’s biggest and has spawned two number-one songs, including “Heart Like A Truck” and “Watermelon Moonshine.” She told us when the album was released, “Sure, I love a good pair of bell bottoms, but Bell Bottom Country to me has always been about the flare and what makes someone unique—I have really embraced mine, and I hope y’all can hear that across this project.”

  • Video of the Year For "Wait In The Truck" with Hardy

    This epic video has already won Collaborative Music Video of the Year at the 2023 CMT Music Awards. It also won the Visual Media Award (basically Video of the Year) at the 2022 ACM Awards in May. With its hard-core storyline and great acting from both HARDY and Lainey, it would be wrong if it did not win Video of the Year from the CMA.

  • Musical Event With Jelly Roll for "Save Me"

    Jelly Roll and Lainey are both so very hot in country music right now, so a win here would be no surprise at all. Also, the song is solid and a fan favorite for sure. Even though Wilson is nominated against herself in this category with the Musical Event with HARDY and “Wait In The Truck,” there is a good chance her collaboration with Jelly will be the winner.

  • Entertainer of the Year

    Yep, I said it. Lainey should take the biggest award of the evening and the most coveted honor of Entertainer of the Year. Let’s be honest: she dominated country music in 2023 with several tours, big hit songs, and many other awards from other award shows. It always seems a little soon for someone like Wilson, whose rise in country music seemed to happen so quickly, to win this one. However, she really deserves this one, and I would be surprised if she didn’t take it home on CMA Award show night.

Nancy Brooks has been working in the country music industry for almost 30 years. She has interviewed pretty much any country star you can think of. In the late 1990s, she started working with Dolly Parton. And yes, Nancy reports that Parton is as sweet as you would think. She loves her life in country music and has been backstage at every CMA Awards show since the late 1990s. Many of her stories are from her one-on-one interviews. She was there at the beginning of the incredible careers of many music superstars today, including Taylor Swift, Shania Twain, and Blake Shelton, and has interviewed them multiple times throughout the years.

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