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Whereas we’re buzzing alongside to the nostalgic, summertime hit “Watermelon Moonshine,” Lainey Wilson is hitting her pen to paper as laborious as she’s been hitting the street the final yr. The nation songstress kicked off the yr sweeping the ACM Awards, bringing dwelling Feminine Artist of the 12 months and Album of the 12 months, and has traveled the nation performing offered out exhibits metropolis after metropolis with followers screaming again at her the lyrics from her award-winning 2022 album Bell Backside Nation. “It’s wild. It’s laborious for me to wrap my head round to be sincere,” Lainey informed HollywoodLife.com of the whirlwind yr of success, whereas additionally chatting about her newest partnership with Sonic. “Let’s not even speak in regards to the 12 years I’ve been in Nashville! The final two years, the final yr, I suppose you can say it simply looks like we’ve been on this rocket ship and I’m attempting to carry on for expensive life with one foot on the bottom.”
Most not too long ago, Lainey launched the music video for “Watermelon Moonshine,” which was introduced because the second single off the Bell Backside Nation album — an ode to younger love, harking back to Deana Carter’s iconic hit “Strawberry Wine.” Whereas chatting with HL, she admitted that whereas she’s persevering with to push the most recent album she “began engaged on the subsequent file earlier than this one was even completed!” “For Bell Backside Nation, I used to be actually ready for that file as a result of the pandemic had simply occurred. I wrote 300 plus songs throughout that point. So, for this subsequent mission, I knew that I used to be going to should get a jumpstart on it as a result of I knew that I used to be by no means going to get that additional time that I did throughout the pandemic,” Lainey defined. “So sure, I’m engaged on it! Any probability that I get, I’m bringing out some songwriters on the street with me as a result of that’s form of the place it’s at proper now. Not many days at dwelling right here in Nashville. We’re simply having to make it occur wherever we are able to.”
Lainey, who will carry out this upcoming Friday, July twenty eighth at Mohegan Sun Arena on her Bell Backside Nation Tour, teased that her subsequent mission “feels grounded.” “I really feel just like the issues that I write about will all the time be fairly comparable. I’ll say that I’m in a unique season of my life proper now, and I really feel like in the previous few years, I’ve simply grown a complete lot as a singer, songwriter, performer, individual, buddy, girlfriend, all the above, and I feel you’re actually going to have the ability to inform that on this subsequent batch of music,” the “Coronary heart Like A truck” singer revealed. “This subsequent batch of music undoubtedly feels, I suppose the phrase for it’s grounded. I’m not saying Bell Backside Nation was not that feeling, however Bell Backside Nation was actually leaning into the issues that make you you and make you completely different and never caring about what folks should say about it. This music goes to be that too, however I feel it’s going to be a couple of extra layers added to that.”
Lainey additionally dished to HL on her latest campaign with Sonic, which she teamed up with to showcase her favourite drink, remixed! The star revealed her go-to Sonic order is a Sprite Zero with contemporary strawberries and sugar-free peach flavoring, which now you can get all summer season lengthy! “Sonic was an enormous a part of my childhood is a large a part of my life now! It’s the final drink vacation spot!” she gushed. “I is usually a thousand miles from dwelling, however after I see a Sonic, I nonetheless someway really feel that proper at dwelling. After I take into consideration after soccer video games, rising up, all everyone would simply run to the closest Sonic simply to see who may get there the quickest.” Lainey even organically included the vacation spot in her music video for “Grease,” and sings about having bourbon on Sonic ice in her track “Reside Off.” “They’ve obtained good crushed ice!” she laughed. You should definitely attempt Lainey’s refreshing drink at your nearest Sonic!
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