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Lainey Wilson Loves Beyonce: ‘The More, The Merrier’

Author Nancy Brooks // Country Writer, Beasley Media Group

Lainey Wilson walked the red carpet at the People’s Choice Awards on Sunday night (2/18) and stopped to talk to several outlets, including Extra, who asked her about Beyonce entering country music with two new country songs, “Texas Hold ‘Em” and “16 Carriages.”

Lainey said, “I love it. I love it. The more, the merrier.” She added that country music is about storytelling and “making people feel at home,” and everyone wants to “feel at home.” When the reporter mentioned that Beyonce was getting some “backlash in the community,” Wilson quipped, “Everybody’s gonna have something to say about everything. I bet you wouldn’t say it to her face. I love Beyonce, yep.”

In the same interview, Wilson said she doesn’t get star-struck that often, but she would if she came face to face with Jennifer Aniston, whom she has never met. She noted that if she did run into the actress, she would tell her how she thinks she’s a “beautiful person inside and out.” She added that Aniston seems like a “pure-hearted good woman.”

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She also performed on the People’s Choice Awards show broadcast in her signature cowboy hat and a new awesome brown leather jacket with frill and a horse on the back.  She sang her latest song, “Country’s Cool Again.”

Lainey posted several photos of herself at the People’s Choice Award on Sunday night (2/18), where she won the People’s Choice award for Female Country Artist of the Year. She captioned the post on Instagram, “Receiving a @peopleschoice fan-voted award is a real high honor in my book. Thank you to every single one of you that voted (prayer hands emoji). Big shout out to my Wild Horses! @laineyswildhorses #PCAs.”

Many of her faithful followers reacted to her post, including one fan who commented, Congratulations!!! Also, that jacket is fire!” Another fan said, “Lainey 2024. For the People.” One more fan wrote, “Congratulations Lainey!!!!! You definitely deserve the award!!!!!”

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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