Lainey Wilson credited global megastar Taylor Swift with releasing her “go-to sad song.”
Wilson said right now, the heartache anthem she gravitates toward is Swift’s “I Can Do It With a Broken Heart,” which appears on The Tortured Poets Department earlier this year. Wilson sad she believes Swift and singer-songwriter and producer Jack Antonoff “are geniuses, and I love how they took a sad song and made it uptempo. When you can do that and do it right, you have something really special.”
The Grammy Award-winning country star caught up with Glamour in a video shared on Wilson’s and the publication’s Instagram accounts on Wednesday (July 31). Wilson picked out a “song for every mood,” including the go-to heartbreak song that went to Swift (whom she shared a full-circle moment with when they met at the Grammys this year). The Bell Bottom Country star’s genre-spanning list includes some of the hottest pop hits today and ballads by country legends.
“A song that gets me fired up for a night out on the town is going to have to be ‘Espresso’ (by) Sabrina Carpenter. I think she’s just a little bada**. Listening to her music just gets me fired up. ‘Espresso,’ you can’t help but to feel yourself for that one,” Wilson told Glamour in the video, after speaking with the magazine for a profile that published earlier this year. “I have a lot of road trip songs. Since I’m wearing my Willie Nelson t-shirt today, it’s probably gonna have to be ‘On the Road Again.’
“The theme song of my life right now is definitely gonna have to be a song that I wrote myself because I write what I know, and I write what I live,” she continued. “I think it’s a song called ‘Good Horses’ that is going to be on my record that I’m getting to do with Miranda Lambert. I wrote it with her, and the hook is ‘good horses always come home.’ I’m a firm believer in that. No matter where this job takes me, I’ma always find my way back home. …My all-time guilty pleasure song has got to be ‘Fancy’ by Reba. That’s my girl. …A song that really inspired my career (is) ‘When You Say Nothing at All’ (by) Keith Whitley. I love how much you can really say in three and a half minutes and make it seem effortless.”
Wilson will release “Good Horses” with Lambert on Friday (August 2). It’s one of 14 tracks that will appear on the Louisiana-born country star’s highly-anticipated Bell Bottom Country follow-up. Whirlwind also includes “4x4xU,” “Hang Tight Honey” and “Country’s Cool Again,” the same name as Wilson’s ongoing headlining tour. The album will release on August 23.