February 18, 2025 • 9 mins
When you're a new artist like Lainey Wilson, it's hard to learn the art of slowing down, taking time for yourself. She has come a long way in a short time, it's caused her not to be present in a lot of situations. What she shares is honestly so personal. You HAVE to listen!!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Lady Wilson, what's up?
Speaker 2 (00:01):
How are you? I'm good.
Speaker 1 (00:03):
We text all the time. How of you? No, I'm kidding.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
You.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Just you just got back from up playing crash. Oh
we do.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
That's messed up, you know you just got back from
from crash, my ply. What's it like to be at
a point in your career where you're asked to do
these massive events like that?
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Well, first of all, Luke Bryan knows how to throw
a party. I need a vacation from vacation. My stomach
hurts like my head from alcohol, a mixture of everything.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Okay, I ate too much. I drank too much. I
had the time in my life.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
I got to bring some of my girlfriends along and
we kind of made like a vacation out of it.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
So it was great. My band didn't come.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
I just filled in with with Luke's band, so it
was I just jumped up there and we did the
dang thing.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Your band's like, yeah, no play in Mexico. Cool, we
don't get to come. Yeah, but we'll do grand rap.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Yeah exactly.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
They gonna have it out for me.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
You have been NonStop. Obviously. This year feels like I
don't want to say you're taking a step back, but
you're more mindful of like your girl gonna need some time?
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Was that super intensive sometime?
Speaker 3 (01:17):
One hundred percent. It has to be It has to
be intentional. It has to be like, all right, you
can't say yes to everything. It just felt like all
the opportunities were coming at once, and I feel like,
just now am I starting to kind of like settle
into it and feel like I know what I need
to say yes to, what I need to say no to,
and what's even just a not a no forever but
(01:38):
not right now? You know, I want to make sure
I'm present for all of these things that are happening,
and I feel more present right now than I've been
in a long time.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
It's easier to think no before you ever say it
out loud. What was the tipping point that made this
year like nah, no, no, it's now.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
I think it was looking up one day and just
being like, how did that happen? Or like did that
just happen? I feel like at times I haven't been
fair to myself. I feel like I thought I was
really soaking up those moments and enjoying them and whatever
you want to call it, but you have to take
the time and step back and really like have a
(02:18):
bird's eye view. I guess you could say of what's
happening in your life, not just for me with music,
but like if you're a new mother or you just
got married or whatever that is. I think it's important
to take those moments because they pass you by quick.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
So what is a moment that you weren't You didn't realize,
but now you look back, you weren't super president that
you're still going to try and go back and soak
up as much as you can.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Well, I think definitely.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
In the beginning of me, like selling tickets to a
show's there has been moments where I would be literally
on stage and be thinking about what I had to
do the next day. And then you have to fight
to get that like get the feeling back, you know
what I'm saying. So fighting to be present, not thinking
(03:06):
about what's behind you, what's way in front of you,
just taking it like breath by breath, moment by moment, and.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
I just want to feel at all.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
I dig that moving forward, silent, a pause in the background.
So outside of being able to set some time aside
and be like you know, really blocking time off for
you the same as you would rights are a tour.
What are things you are looking more forward to work
wise now because you've made sure that there's pockets of
(03:39):
Lanny time.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Oh I'm feeling very creative and it's really Americlean.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Yeah you know what. Yeah, my name is Laney.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah, don't put it past me.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Listen. I've seen these throw up gang side at concerts,
so I know that was a peace sign. I don't
know how.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
That's my gang sign, gangang.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
But as far as the things you're looking forward to
work wise, now that you more so, now that you've
made sure that there's time for you, I.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Think I'm really like in a great headspace of writing
right now. I'm not like writing lots and lots like
I used to. I used to write every day, no
matter what. I used to come down to Music Row
and write two songs a day. I'd write hundreds of
songs a year. Starting to realize that quality over quantity,
I think I needed to do that during a time
(04:30):
of my life to kind of like get the bad
out to get to the good, you know. But now
with all my eggs and a bunch of different baskets.
I kind of feel like, Okay, now I just need
to be making sure that I'm doing whatever it takes
to feel grounded and centered.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
So whenever I do go into.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
A co write, I can lay it all on the
line and not be like digging around for something. I
need to be very in touch with my feelings.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Let me go back to you mentioned there's times that
you'd be on stage thinking about the next day or
something like that and not present in that moment. Where
was the breaking point for that for you? Oh my gosh,
do you remember.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Like what I just I do remember, even like being
on the phone with my mama at one point last year,
and I swear I think I had let her talk
ten minutes and didn't hear a damn word she said.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
And then I thought, oh no, I.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Can't be doing that to the people I love, you know,
Like it's almost like I was tuning out things just
to get through whatever I had to get through.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
And here's the thing.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
My mama likes to talk, and she probably was not
talking about anything really important, but still I want to listen.
I want I want to be there for my people.
And so when it starts affecting those kind of things,
when it's affecting your friendships and your relationships with people,
because at the end of the day, I'm not gonna
be sitting on the couch with my music career when
(05:59):
I'm eighty five. It's going to be my people. So
I got to take care of my people.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
That or it's like if I call my mother or
my grandma who's my mom's mom. They will if I
call them and they're like, how are things? And I'm like, oh,
you know, if I'm like upset about this or something this,
It'll turn around within two minutes. Well, I could be like, oh,
I just found out that I'm termally ill, and my
grandma would be like, well, I got a paper cut
(06:25):
open in the mail. How do you think I feel?
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Still? That is hilarious.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
I'm like, so, I don't go to grandmar with problems anymore,
but I'd let her talk, let her talk. Celebrating another
number one. It's on the verge of hitting that where
you are mentally now with life and career, and I
can feel more balanced from you than maybe, oh yeah,
I felt in the past. Is this one going to
(06:50):
be more special than the others? Now?
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Because well, I'll tell you. For me, it's going to
be special for a lot of reasons. But I'm like,
way more excited for the people that I wrote the
song with. So Aaron Ratier is one of the co writers,
and he just had the big Ella Riley song, so
he's had like two hit songs.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Back to back, and the Alice song was his first
right with his first Yeah, I remember she had said
he'd just been here forever.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
He had been here forever.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
And then John Deshius, one of my best friends who
I also wrote four by four by U with, this
is his first number one. So it makes me excited
when I get to celebrate those things with my buddies,
it gets me fired up.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
For them.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
I'm just like, and this is what they moved to
town for this. You know, it was just a dream,
It was just a thought, and then you start dreaming
and then you start just like doing the things that
it takes to maybe maybe just maybe have something good happen.
And after years and years of planting no seeds, it's
cool for me to watch my buddies.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Just flourish.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
I know that I never want to to try and
pull info out of you that isn't out there yet,
but I will ask a blanket statement of at some point,
you got new music coming. Anybody who's a fan of
yours or of country music knows that the wheels are
always spinning in your head and the pen is always
right in somewhere. So if you could give us a season.
(08:19):
And I'm not asking for an album, but at least
maybe a song. And I don't need title, I don't
need tempo. But like, if someone's a massive Landy Wilson fan,
they've sat with this album already, it's like, what else,
what else? What else? Just wait for spring, summer, fall, winter.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
I'm like, what season are we in right now? I'm
so confused?
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Cold as hell it is right now.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Well, I'm confused because I was in Mexico yesterday.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Oh yeah, thanks for bringing that back.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Me, by the way, Yeah yeah, yeah, my.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Hands froze to the car door when I went to
open it.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
But I'm glad you guys are so cold.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Just know this, when things start warming up, we're gonna
get to warming.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Lady Wilson, I appreciate you, girl, Thank you.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
I see it
Lady Wilson, what's up?
Speaker 2 (00:01):
How are you? I'm good.
Speaker 1 (00:03):
We text all the time. How of you? No, I'm kidding.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
You.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Just you just got back from up playing crash. Oh
we do.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
That's messed up, you know you just got back from
from crash, my ply. What's it like to be at
a point in your career where you're asked to do
these massive events like that?
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Well, first of all, Luke Bryan knows how to throw
a party. I need a vacation from vacation. My stomach
hurts like my head from alcohol, a mixture of everything.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Okay, I ate too much. I drank too much. I
had the time in my life.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
I got to bring some of my girlfriends along and
we kind of made like a vacation out of it.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
So it was great. My band didn't come.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
I just filled in with with Luke's band, so it
was I just jumped up there and we did the
dang thing.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Your band's like, yeah, no play in Mexico. Cool, we
don't get to come. Yeah, but we'll do grand rap.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Yeah exactly.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
They gonna have it out for me.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
You have been NonStop. Obviously. This year feels like I
don't want to say you're taking a step back, but
you're more mindful of like your girl gonna need some time?
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Was that super intensive sometime?
Speaker 3 (01:17):
One hundred percent. It has to be It has to
be intentional. It has to be like, all right, you
can't say yes to everything. It just felt like all
the opportunities were coming at once, and I feel like,
just now am I starting to kind of like settle
into it and feel like I know what I need
to say yes to, what I need to say no to,
and what's even just a not a no forever but
(01:38):
not right now? You know, I want to make sure
I'm present for all of these things that are happening,
and I feel more present right now than I've been
in a long time.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
It's easier to think no before you ever say it
out loud. What was the tipping point that made this
year like nah, no, no, it's now.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
I think it was looking up one day and just
being like, how did that happen? Or like did that
just happen? I feel like at times I haven't been
fair to myself. I feel like I thought I was
really soaking up those moments and enjoying them and whatever
you want to call it, but you have to take
the time and step back and really like have a
(02:18):
bird's eye view. I guess you could say of what's
happening in your life, not just for me with music,
but like if you're a new mother or you just
got married or whatever that is. I think it's important
to take those moments because they pass you by quick.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
So what is a moment that you weren't You didn't realize,
but now you look back, you weren't super president that
you're still going to try and go back and soak
up as much as you can.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Well, I think definitely.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
In the beginning of me, like selling tickets to a
show's there has been moments where I would be literally
on stage and be thinking about what I had to
do the next day. And then you have to fight
to get that like get the feeling back, you know
what I'm saying. So fighting to be present, not thinking
(03:06):
about what's behind you, what's way in front of you,
just taking it like breath by breath, moment by moment, and.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
I just want to feel at all.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
I dig that moving forward, silent, a pause in the background.
So outside of being able to set some time aside
and be like you know, really blocking time off for
you the same as you would rights are a tour.
What are things you are looking more forward to work
wise now because you've made sure that there's pockets of
(03:39):
Lanny time.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Oh I'm feeling very creative and it's really Americlean.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Yeah you know what. Yeah, my name is Laney.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah, don't put it past me.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Listen. I've seen these throw up gang side at concerts,
so I know that was a peace sign. I don't
know how.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
That's my gang sign, gangang.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
But as far as the things you're looking forward to
work wise, now that you more so, now that you've
made sure that there's time for you, I.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Think I'm really like in a great headspace of writing
right now. I'm not like writing lots and lots like
I used to. I used to write every day, no
matter what. I used to come down to Music Row
and write two songs a day. I'd write hundreds of
songs a year. Starting to realize that quality over quantity,
I think I needed to do that during a time
(04:30):
of my life to kind of like get the bad
out to get to the good, you know. But now
with all my eggs and a bunch of different baskets.
I kind of feel like, Okay, now I just need
to be making sure that I'm doing whatever it takes
to feel grounded and centered.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
So whenever I do go into.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
A co write, I can lay it all on the
line and not be like digging around for something. I
need to be very in touch with my feelings.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Let me go back to you mentioned there's times that
you'd be on stage thinking about the next day or
something like that and not present in that moment. Where
was the breaking point for that for you? Oh my gosh,
do you remember.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Like what I just I do remember, even like being
on the phone with my mama at one point last year,
and I swear I think I had let her talk
ten minutes and didn't hear a damn word she said.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
And then I thought, oh no, I.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Can't be doing that to the people I love, you know,
Like it's almost like I was tuning out things just
to get through whatever I had to get through.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
And here's the thing.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
My mama likes to talk, and she probably was not
talking about anything really important, but still I want to listen.
I want I want to be there for my people.
And so when it starts affecting those kind of things,
when it's affecting your friendships and your relationships with people,
because at the end of the day, I'm not gonna
be sitting on the couch with my music career when
(05:59):
I'm eighty five. It's going to be my people. So
I got to take care of my people.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
That or it's like if I call my mother or
my grandma who's my mom's mom. They will if I
call them and they're like, how are things? And I'm like, oh,
you know, if I'm like upset about this or something this,
It'll turn around within two minutes. Well, I could be like, oh,
I just found out that I'm termally ill, and my
grandma would be like, well, I got a paper cut
(06:25):
open in the mail. How do you think I feel?
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Still? That is hilarious.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
I'm like, so, I don't go to grandmar with problems anymore,
but I'd let her talk, let her talk. Celebrating another
number one. It's on the verge of hitting that where
you are mentally now with life and career, and I
can feel more balanced from you than maybe, oh yeah,
I felt in the past. Is this one going to
(06:50):
be more special than the others? Now?
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Because well, I'll tell you. For me, it's going to
be special for a lot of reasons. But I'm like,
way more excited for the people that I wrote the
song with. So Aaron Ratier is one of the co writers,
and he just had the big Ella Riley song, so
he's had like two hit songs.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Back to back, and the Alice song was his first
right with his first Yeah, I remember she had said
he'd just been here forever.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
He had been here forever.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
And then John Deshius, one of my best friends who
I also wrote four by four by U with, this
is his first number one. So it makes me excited
when I get to celebrate those things with my buddies,
it gets me fired up.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
For them.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
I'm just like, and this is what they moved to
town for this. You know, it was just a dream,
It was just a thought, and then you start dreaming
and then you start just like doing the things that
it takes to maybe maybe just maybe have something good happen.
And after years and years of planting no seeds, it's
cool for me to watch my buddies.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Just flourish.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
I know that I never want to to try and
pull info out of you that isn't out there yet,
but I will ask a blanket statement of at some point,
you got new music coming. Anybody who's a fan of
yours or of country music knows that the wheels are
always spinning in your head and the pen is always
right in somewhere. So if you could give us a season.
(08:19):
And I'm not asking for an album, but at least
maybe a song. And I don't need title, I don't
need tempo. But like, if someone's a massive Landy Wilson fan,
they've sat with this album already, it's like, what else,
what else? What else? Just wait for spring, summer, fall, winter.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
I'm like, what season are we in right now? I'm
so confused?
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Cold as hell it is right now.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Well, I'm confused because I was in Mexico yesterday.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Oh yeah, thanks for bringing that back.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Me, by the way, Yeah yeah, yeah, my.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Hands froze to the car door when I went to
open it.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
But I'm glad you guys are so cold.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Just know this, when things start warming up, we're gonna
get to warming.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Lady Wilson, I appreciate you, girl, Thank you.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
I see it
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