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Lainey Wilson: Felt Like An ‘Imposter’ After Winning Top CMA

Author Nancy Brooks // Country Writer, Beasley Media Group

Lainey Wilson told Kelleigh Bannen in a new interview how she felt when she received her GRAMMY nominations. Her nods include a Best Country Album nomination for her Bell Bottom Country.

She told , “It felt like, I don’t know, like a stamp of approval or respect from people in the industry as a whole.” She noted that she didn’t move to Nashville to “just win awards.” Lainey said she moved to town because this is what “I love to do,” adding that the GRAMMY nods are “like a cool thing that comes along with it.”

Wilson continued of the honor, “To think about a girl that grew up in a town of less than 200 people getting nominated for a GRAMMY … I hope that people who feel like, ‘Oh, there’s no chance in hell I would ever be able to do that.’ I hope that they can look at the story and be like, ‘Well, hey, you never know.'”

In the same interview, Lainey said she felt like an imposter at times after winning the CMA Award for Entertainer of the Year win last month. She admitted, “I’d be lying to you if I told you that at times those imposter feelings didn’t creep up on me because I think that’s just a human thing to do.” She said that everyone who was nominated for the award deserved it, saying, “It’s about reminding yourself that everybody’s journey is different.”

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Wilson was one of the many country artists and famous people who attended an album release party near Nashville a few weeks ago to celebrate the release of Dolly Parton’s Rockstar album.

Lainey listened closely as the country icon spoke to the small crowd gathered to hear the 30-song album. She said that she had heard Parton say at the release party that “It’s almost like when one dream happens, it leads to another dream.” Wilson said that’s what she sees now in her life and career, including acting. She said she didn’t dream about being an actor as a child, saying, “Things that I didn’t dream about as a child, it’s like this dream has led to other dreams.”

5 Lainey Wilson Music Videos Everyone Should Watch

  • "Things A Man Oughta Know" (2020)

    This music video is quite personal as it was filmed in Lainey’s own home and filled with personal elements and close friends. It was released on April 2, 2021.

    Wilson told us at the time of release, “I hoped that people would connect to this song, and it’s been so incredible to see just how strong the reaction has been. For the music video, we wanted to create a piece of art where people could watch it and feel something all over again.”

  • "Heart Like A Truck" (2022)

    This cinematic video stars Lainey as a stable hand who is brought in to earn the trust of a free-spirited pony that no one else has been able to tame. Through time, care, and patience, she can get through the difficult period and eventually rides the horse around the farm, designed to mirror her own approach to relationships.

    Wilson recently celebrated the song going to number one on the country charts with a party on Music Row, where she and the song’s co-writers sang it from their own separate truck beds in a parking lot.

  • "Grease" (2023)

    This song was never released as a single, but they did make a music video of it, and it’s kind of personal to this journalist as my buddy, a budding country singer named Presley, is a dancing extra in it, dancing right beside Lainey. The video features a bunch of breakdancers all dancing to the song in front of Wilson’s tour buses.

  • "Watermelon Moonshine" (2023)

    It’s another number-one country song. Lainey told us about it, “This song embodies what country music means to me, creating a timeless story that will resonate with people for generations to come. This song is about the crazy, young, nostalgic love we all hope to experience.” The video has been watched almost 10 million times on YouTube.

    Even though Wilson is an actress herself, she actually has actors Rachel Lynn Matthews and Sam Sherrod play in the video, acting out the storyline of the song and depicting the unfolding of a young love. Wilson performs the song in a field as she narrates the story.

  • "Wait In The Truck" (2022)

    This fantastic video from a duet with Lainey and HARDY is an award winner. It won the CMA for Music Video of the Year and the Musical Event of the Year award. “Wait In The Truck” also won the Visual Media of the Year (basically Video of the Year) at the 2023 ACM Awards. The music video also won Collaborative Music Video of the Year at the 2023 CMT Music Awards and was nominated for Video of the Year.

    In this journalist’s opinion, the murder ballad and video is one of country music’s most prolific videos in the last decade. The video has been watched 69 million times on YouTube.

Nancy Brooks has been working in the country music industry for almost 30 years. She has interviewed pretty much any country star you can think of. In the late 1990s, she started working with Dolly Parton. And yes, Nancy reports that Parton is as sweet as you would think. She loves her life in country music and has been backstage at every CMA Awards show since the late 1990s. Many of her stories are from her one-on-one interviews. She was there at the beginning of the incredible careers of many music superstars today, including Taylor Swift, Shania Twain, and Blake Shelton, and has interviewed them multiple times throughout the years.

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