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\n\tBillboard Woman In Music Powerhouse Award recipient Ella Langley talks about the incredible moment her music started reaching new heights and why she believes women are about to take over the music industry. After seeing the success of her song \u201cChoosin\u2019 Texas,\u201d which is spending its sixth week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, Ella reflects on how surreal the milestone feels and why it means so much to be part of a new wave of talented female artists, her new album Dandelion<\/em>, and the creative process behind it, working with Miranda Lambert and more!<\/p>\n \n\tElla Langley:<\/p>\n \n\tYou know, when we wrote that song, I wrote it with Miranda Lambert, Luke Dick, and Joy Beth Taylor. When we wrote it, I knew it was going on the record. I honestly knew it was gonna be the lead single. And we love that song, but I don\u2019t think I could have ever imagined what\u2019s happening with it right now. Like I said, every day I wake up and it\u2019s doing something that I didn\u2019t even know was a goal that I could have had. And it\u2019s just, it\u2019s nuts. It\u2019s crazy to see the ownership that the fans have taken over it, and the different demographics of people listening to the song is so cool. Just nuts to see everything happen. So I was on a writer\u2019s retreat with Miranda. This was our first time that we had written together, and obviously we were there with two others. We had written one song and she was telling me this story. I learned at a young age she had a pet kangaroo, and I wanted to ask her about it, so I was like, \u201cTell me about this kangaroo that you had. I need to know.\u201d And she did. She had a pet kangaroo, and she was telling me this story about how she got pulled over once. She had the kangaroo in the passenger seat, dog in the back, and she said she got pulled over and the kangaroo ended up getting her out of a ticket, but she\u2019s like, \u201cOf course, I had Texas plates on too.\u201d And I went, \u201cWell, she\u2019s from Texas. I can tell.\u201d And just from that phrase, it kinda all hit us and the melody fell right out of me and I went: \u201cShe\u2019s from Texas, I can tell by the way he\u2019s two-stepping \u2019round the room.\u201d Just like that. And Miranda was like, \u201cLike the one he went with, the girl he went with.\u201d And 45 minutes later we had that song written. And it was just, it was such a cool experience. While she\u2019s actually working with me, she\u2019s executive producing this next record of mine. And so this whole process with her has been just, I\u2019ve learned so much.<\/p>\n Keep watching for more!<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/video\/ella-langley-reveals-unexpected-choosin-texas-inspiration\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/WIM-Thumbnails-Ella-V1.jpg?w=1024″] Trending on Billboard Billboard Woman In Music Powerhouse Award recipient Ella Langley talks about the incredible moment her music started reaching new heights and why she believes women are about to take over the music industry. After seeing the success of her song \u201cChoosin\u2019 Texas,\u201d which is spending its sixth week at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,226],"class_list":["post-1887801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-billboard-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1887801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1887801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1887801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1887801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}