LeAnn Rimes caught up with Billboard's Lyndsey Havens & Tetris Kelly at the ACM Awards 2025.
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00:00This dress is everything.
00:03So tell me how's it feel so far to be at the ACM School?
00:05Oh, it's good.
00:05I haven't been here in a while, and it takes a lot to get me out these days.
00:08So off my couch in my sweats, I know.
00:11So I'm excited to be here.
00:12This is my hometown, too, so I get to see my family.
00:15Yeah, it's great.
00:16Do you have a favorite memory of your hometown?
00:19Oh, my gosh.
00:19I know, sorry.
00:20We're reflecting having this be 60 years, you know?
00:22Oh, my gosh.
00:24You know, this is what bred, like, music into me, really.
00:28I mean, growing up in Texas, I performed at all the local operas here.
00:32And honestly, like, I performed at a place called Johnny High's Country Music Review,
00:36and it was in Fort Worth.
00:37And from the time I was seven, every Saturday night until I started professionally.
00:42So, like, I'm a human jukebox.
00:44You can put a quarter in me, I basically know every song known to man.
00:46At least a person, of course.
00:48So, you know, it's, yeah, it's what really started this all for me.
00:52So, yeah, Texas has been good to me.
00:54And, I mean, this is the 60-year anniversary.
00:55I hope I'm not spilling too much tea.
00:57This isn't a secret or anything, but Blue is going to be included in the opening of the show tonight.
01:01I'm representing the 90s, which I think is the best era of country music ever.
01:05So, yeah, no, it's amazing to think, like, I was 13.
01:09It's been basically 30 years almost.
01:11Wow.
01:12Yeah, it'll be 30 years this year.
01:14I'm 43.
01:15Almost 43 in August.
01:17Are we doing anything big to celebrate the 30th of Blue?
01:19We should.
01:21I don't know.
01:21Yeah, there's got to be a moment.
01:23All of a sudden now you're publicist.
01:26I'm like, we need a vinyl.
01:27We need all this.
01:28It just kind of hit me that it actually was 30 years.
01:30But, yeah, I'm sure we'll do something spectacular for sure.
01:34If you could take us back into the room of, you know, writing, recording that song, what stands out the most?
01:39Oh, my God.
01:40Well, actually, my dad, so Bill Mack wrote that song, and he sent it to my dad after hearing me perform at a Ranger game here at the National Anthem.
01:49And I was 11.
01:50My dad, if you heard the demo, it was awful.
01:52My dad threw it in the trash.
01:53And I dug it out because I was very defiant at 11.
01:56And my dad came home, and I put the yodel in it, and he was like, oh, it's not such a bad song.
02:01So that would have never been if I wasn't a defiant 11-year-old.
02:05That is some good wisdom right there, honestly.
02:07I know, you know what, it's amazing as a kid, like, you just have no, you have no filter, you have no fear.
02:13Like, it's just, you just kind of follow your instincts.
02:16And I think, if anything, that I took away from, and I still have in me from that little 11-year-old Leanne,
02:22is that always listen to that inner voice because it knows, you know, better than anyone.
02:26And then I also want to talk to you about the phone call you got from Ryan Murphy.
02:30Oh, yeah.
02:30To be like, hey, let's be on 911.
02:33How was that process, and what was it like?
02:34So, I actually went in and read, and I haven't gone in and read for anything since I was 17.
02:40Oh, can you?
02:40And I was terrified.
02:41I was like, I actually, I set the time to go in and read, and I was like, I reserve the right to back out of this.
02:49Yep.
02:49And because it's actually, I can't say much about it, but it's very different for me.
02:53And I'm excited about it.
02:55Oh, I can tell.
02:56Because it's going to be real fun.
02:57But I went in and read, and they called me literally like 15 minutes after I walked out the door,
03:02and they were like, yeah, totally down.
03:04So, I'm excited.
03:05I would expect nothing else.
03:06Well, I really am.
03:07I'm excited.
03:08They were like, you did so amazing.
03:09I'm like, I did?
03:11Oh, my God.
03:11I mean, like, I really, I act every like four or five years.
03:13And so, it's not like music where I'm constantly doing it, and it's like living and breathing, you know?
03:17And so, every time I get a role, I'm like, oh, can I do this?
03:21But I know I can.
03:23I'm so excited, and I can't wait.
03:24Yeah.
03:24We can't wait to see you tonight on stage.
03:26We can't wait to see you on TV.
03:27Let's look forward to.
03:28Congrats on everything.
03:28Thank you very much.
03:29Good to see you guys.
03:30Of course.
03:30Good to see you, too.
03:31Such a pleasure.