Hang tight honey, we're making way for 'Entertainer of the Year' nominee Lainey Wilson, backstage at the 60th ACM Awards. The singer sat in with Katie Neal to talk about the big show, the new music she's been teasing on socials, and her amazing feature film debut.
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00:00We are backstage at the 60th annual ACM Awards with one of our Entertainer of the Year nominees, Ms. Lainey Wilson.
00:06What's going on?
00:07I am so excited for you. You are going to have an incredible night tonight. How are you feeling? Are you nervous? Are you excited?
00:12All of the above.
00:14Yeah.
00:14It's really hard to put a finger on one emotion during weeks like this. It's like, I'm happy, I'm scared, I'm excited, I'm terrified, I'm all of it.
00:23Literally all of it. You're performing.
00:24What can you say about your performance?
00:26I'm getting to do a song with Miranda and Reba.
00:28Oh, wow. No pressure there.
00:30No pressure there. I know I'm like...
00:32How was rehearsals for that?
00:33It was great.
00:34Yeah?
00:34It was great. Me and Miranda wrote a song with Brandi Clark for me and Miranda and Reba to do together, and it's called Trailblazers, and it's just, it's really special.
00:44I mean, I'm partial, but it's not just a message for the women in the country music business.
00:49It's really just a message in general for those ladies that kind of help pull each other up over that wall.
00:56That's incredible. I can't wait to see this.
00:57You also were teasing a little bit of new music this week. Talk about that.
01:02Yeah, girl. I'm excited.
01:04Okay.
01:05I mean, new music always feels good, just because I feel like before Whirlwind, the record was even out.
01:11I was already working on new music, you know.
01:14Well, you have to with your schedule.
01:15Yeah, you just gotta be on it. So, if it was up to me, I'd be releasing a song every month, but that's just not realistic right now.
01:22So, I'm excited to share it. I feel like somehow, some way, it's kind of like we're constantly meeting that next level of whatever that is.
01:35So, I hope y'all love it as much as I do.
01:37You were teasing this on the piano. Is it a piano song?
01:40Yeah. It's got some piano in it.
01:41I love that for you.
01:41We wrote it on the piano.
01:42Okay.
01:43So, that's where it started.
01:45That's amazing. You also, big news this week, are making your first full-length feature film debut.
01:51Yeah.
01:52Colleen Hoover's Reminders of Him. I have not read this book.
01:54Yeah.
01:54You have read the book, I'm assuming.
01:56Okay. Tell me about how all this came together.
01:59You know.
02:00Have you shot for it yet?
02:00Yeah.
02:01Oh, my gosh. This is done.
02:02Yeah. My part's done.
02:03And I'm getting to play somebody that's not a musician, which is cool.
02:06Yeah.
02:07And just kind of step into somebody completely different than me.
02:13How did you get in the headspace for this?
02:16Well, I will tell you.
02:17Luckily, I feel like once I kind of developed the character on my own, I feel like I really did find a lot of similarities.
02:24I saw a lot of myself in her, and I think that probably made it a little bit easier.
02:31My next thing I do, I'm like, what happens if it's like a villain or something like that?
02:35Which I'm sure there will be parts of me be like, I see myself in here, too, you know?
02:41Oh, my gosh. This is so fun. I just feel like just every week lately, there's like some new thing that you are checking off the list.
02:47Feels good.
02:47I feel so happy for you. What else are you like really excited about this year?
02:51Oh, my gosh.
02:52Music, movies.
02:54Music, movies, all of it. Just I feel like I'm having a lot more balance this year, which I'm excited about.
02:59We're still playing lots of shows, but I'm getting to spend a little bit more time with my family and get to celebrate my nephew's birthdays coming up.
03:07And it's just, it's all good stuff.
03:09Makes me happy to hear that because we've talked about this a lot.
03:11Like, you have been running yourself ragged the last few years.
03:14So, I'm very happy to see you.
03:16Thank you. I love you so much.
03:19Lainey Wilson backstage at the 60th Annual ACM Awards.
03:22Lainey Wilson backstage at the 60th Annual ACM Awards.