Recommended tracks: “Be Her,” “Bottom Of Your Boots,” “Broken”
Artists you might like: Dasha, Kacey Musgraves, Maren Morris
The future of women in country music looks brighter than ever after the release of Ella Langley’s Dandelion. Langley’s second full-length studio album features 18 tracks, including the Billboard Hot 100 No.1 hit “Choosin’ Texas” and the viral TikTok favourite “Loving Life Again,” which has already been used in over 132,000 videos. Executive production from Ella Langley, Miranda Lambert, and Ben West helps shape a project that feels fully in her hands, while also showing how Langley’s confidence has grown with each release, both vocally and creatively.
“I’m in the back half of my twenties and still figuring it out, but I feel like I do it with a little more confidence. That’s why a lot of these songs represent that. They represent that feeling of, like, you know, you’re still figuring it out, but you’re trying to do it a little better each time,” Langley shares with Apple Music.
The Alabama native has made it clear that if she has vision, she’s not afraid to fight for it. In 2024, her breakout hit “You Look Like You Love Me” went all the way to No.1 on country radio, making her the only woman that year to reach the top of the charts. What many people don’t realize is that her label initially doubted the song would even work. Since then, she earned seven ACM nominations in 2025, taking home five wins, making her the most awarded artist of the night. She also added more No. 1 country hits to her name with “Weren’t for the Wind” and “Don’t Mind If I Do.”
Her determination feels more self-assured on Dandelion, as she steps into her identity as both an artist and a storyteller. It’s refreshing to see a country artist honour those who came before her, while still weaving in subtle pop elements that give the project a sound that’s unique to Langley.
Clocking in at just over 57 minutes, Dandelion opens with a snippet of Langley singing the first song she ever learned, “Froggy Went A Courtin’,” laying the foundation for the sense of nostalgia you hear throughout the record. Immediately following are the title track and “Choosin’ Texas,” a standout single from Dandelion that has finally received a music video featuring American actor and musician Luke Grimes, alongside fellow country music stars Miranda Lambert and Kaitlin Butts.
After massive success with “Never Met Anyone Like You,” Langley has once again teamed up with HARDY to write “Be Her,” a track that leans into comparison and the jealousy she feels toward another woman who seems to have it all figured out: “Don’t want all this drama, give me something real / Trade a mile high to walk one in her heels / Take all my money, everything I have / I just wanna be her, I just wanna be her so bad / It hurts so bad.” Across Dandelion, Langley works with a number of well known names, but perhaps the biggest influence comes from Lambert. It only feels right, then, that Lambert is the sole featured vocalist on the record, appearing on “Butterfly Season,” a collaboration about growing into the person you’re meant to become.
“Bottom Of Your Boots” finds Langley pleading for her love interest to finally define what they are before she gets more caught up in something that feels so one-sided. It’s almost as if she knows the answer, but still needs to hear it out loud. She shifts gears entirely on “I Gotta Quit,” where she tries to outrun those feelings by throwing herself into distraction instead: “Everywhere I go, everything I see / Even in my dreams, it haunting me / Tell me what I gotta say, tell me what I gotta do / ‘Cause damn it, I gotta quit thinkin’ ’bout you.”
Standing out as the tracks that carry the most emotional weight are “Broken” and “Speaking Terms.” On “Broken,” the singer embraces her emotions, asking not to be fixed but to be understood. With “Speaking Terms,” she navigates the hope of a higher power she feels hasn’t been listening to her lately: “I carry on this one way conversation / I’m listening but you don’t say a word / If your answer’s in the silence, I’ll patient / But it’s hard to know my prayers are being heard.”
Langley will be kicking off The Dandelion Tour next month in Toledo, Ohio. Get tickets HERE.
Upcoming tour dates:
5/7/2026 – Toledo, OH @ Huntington Center (+,&)
5/8/2026 – St. Louis, MO @ Chaifetz Arena (+,&)
5/14/2026 – Estero, FL @ Hertz Arena (@, &)
5/15/2026 – Savannah, GA @ Enmarket Arena (@, &)
6/18/2026 – Oklahoma City, OK @ Zoo Amphitheatre (+,&)
6/19/2026 – Independence, MO @ Cable Dahmer Arena (+,&)
6/25/2026 – Salem, VA @ Salem Civic Center (+,&)
6/26/2026 – Wilmington, NC @ Live Oak Bank Pavilion at Riverfront Park (+,&)
7/23/2026 – Pikeville, KY @ Appalachian Wireless Arena (#, %)
7/24/2026 – Cary, NC @ Koka Booth Amphitheatre (#, %)
7/25/2026 – North Charleston, SC @ North Charleston Coliseum (#, %)
7/30/2026 – Gilford, NH @ BankNH Pavilion (@, %)
7/31/2026 – Canandaigua, NY @ CMAC (@, %)
8/13/2026 – Austin, TX @ Moody Center (#, &)
8/14/2026 – Corpus Christi, TX @ Hilliard Center (#, &)
8/15/2026 – Fort Worth, TX @ Dickies Arena (#, &)
Support key:
@ Kameron Marlowe
+ Dylan Marlowe
# Kaitlin Butts
& Gabriella Rose
% Laci Kaye Booth
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