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Lainey Wilson Is Writing Love Songs For The First Time

Author Nancy Brooks // Country Writer, Beasley Media Group
August 4th 11:18 AM

Lainey Wilson and her man, former Pittsburgh Steelers football player Devlin Hodges, made their red-carpet debut together at the May 2023 ACM Awards in Texas. The couple has been dating steadily for over two years.

Lainey talked with American Songwriter and revealed that the love in her life had changed her songwriting subjects quite a bit. Wilson told the publication that for the first time, she has been writing songs about love.

She said, “I’m in a very happy, healthy relationship right now, and I’ve never written a love song in my life until the last two and a half years.” Lainey said that her boyfriend makes it “very easy” to write love songs adding that whatever the situation is in her life at the time, she is writing about it. At this time, the situation is love.

She explained that her songwriting process is about tuning in to “those true feelings” and that taking advantage of them is important and to not be “scared of them.”

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That “happy, healthy relationship” with Hodges and those many love songs she is writing could find their way onto her next album. Wilson did say that she is not sure which love songs will make the new album, but that Hodges is a fan of those particular songs. She noted, “The songs that I write about him are his favorite.”

Lainey also said that her next record would show a “different” side of her and her songwriting. She said that it’s really busy in her life right now, and she needs to “feel grounded” and make her feel like she’s at home because she never is with her current schedule. Lainey revealed that she is starting to “completely let those walls down” in her writing. She noted, “I’m learning things about myself right now that I didn’t even know was possible. I’m able to share more of my life.”

Wilson said the forthcoming album she is working on “needs to be a step up.” That could be a tall order as her current album, Bell Bottom Country, won ACM’s Album of the Year honors in May.

6 Lainey Wilson Songs That Make Her An Award Winner

  • 6 – “Watermelon Moonshine” (2023)

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    The chorus of this fun song includes the lyrics, "Drinkin' watermelon moonshine / We cut the burn with a little lime / Parkin' back in them kudzu vines / I was his and every bit of that boy was mine / Too young to know what love was / But we were learnin' on a sweet buzz / There's never nothin' like the first time / And mine's always gonna taste like / Watermelon moonshine."

  • 5 – “Never Say Never” (Cole Swindell with Lainey Wilson) (2021)

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    Swindell said, "I have been a fan of Lainey Wilson's for a while now, and what she brings to this song is everything it needed." The song hit number one on Billboard's Country Airplay chart.

  • 4 – “Grease” – (2023)

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    A fun song that Lainey performed at the 58th ACM Awards, where she won Album of the Year for "Bell Bottom Country." Wilson released a dancing video for the song, finding country breakdancers that she saw at one of her shows and tracked them down to appear in the video.

  • 3 – “Things a Man Oughta Know” (2020)

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    The music video for this song was shot in Wilson's own home partially and filled with personal elements and close friends. She said of the video at the time, "For the music video, we wanted to create a piece of art where people could watch it and feel something all over again." The song won the ACM 2021 Song of the Year.

  • 2 – “Heart Like a Truck” (2022)

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    Lainey said of the song when it came out, "It's a song about finding freedom and strength. Not being afraid of the scars and the bruises and the bumps along the way. That makes you who you are. It builds character." It recently became her third number-one song on the Billboard charts.

  • 1 – “Wait in the Truck” (HARDY with Lainey Wilson) (2022)

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    So many things to say about this amazing song. It just recently won Visual Media (video) of the Year and Music Event of the Year at the 58th ACM Awards. The music video is epic of the song labeled as a "murder ballad" about a male protagonist killing an abuser. Lainey and HARDY performed the song at the 2022 CMA Awards.

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Author Nancy Brooks // Country Writer, Beasley Media Group
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