This Week’s Backstage Country Host: Ella Langley
Singer and songwriter Ella Langley is Kelly Ford’s Backstage Country co-host this week! Please tune in and listen as she talks about her debut album Hungover, her duet with Riley Green and why she doesn’t see herself doing anything else.
No Other Career for Ella Langley
With Hungover being her first studio album, Langley’s music journey is just beginning. Ford asked Langley how the past year has been especially after getting her label deal. Langley shared that music is the only thing she ever wanted to do. “I mean, from 18 to right now, this is the only job I ever had and the only way I’ve been able to pay my bills. I never gave myself another option. Never. I was just so focused on this that I never wanted to do anything else.”
She added, “I mean, the number of gigs I’ve played with a tip jar out in front of me. That’s how I pay my bills and it’s a lot of years doing that. So, this has really been a journey for me, one that is just beautiful and crazy, with ups and downs.”
“You Look Like You Love Me”
Released as a promotional single, “You Look Like You Love Me” is a duet with Riley Green. Ford asked Langley the story behind the song. “So, the story behind that song is I wrote it originally with a guy named Eric. We didn’t write it as a duet. We’re just writing for fun, and it didn’t take as long. Probably one of the easiest songs ever written.”
Langley continued, “And he said, ‘Ella, how’s your relationship going?’ I’m honestly at this point a couple of years ago, when they looked like they loved me, and I got to get out of there. And you know, being songwriters, you’re always thinking about songs. As soon as that crossed my lips, we looked at each other and wrote the title down.”
Langley also shared how it became a duet with Green who also co-wrote the song. “Riley asked us on tour, we had just finished a tour with him, but he asked us on tour for this next one. And I was driving around, listening to the record thinking, ‘What if he put his name first on it?’ And I asked him to write it if a woman walked up in a bar and this is what she said, what would you do? What would you say? And he did great. He wrote it exactly the way it needs to be written.”
Listen to Hungover here and catch Ella Langley on tour.
