Miranda Lambert told Ella Langley if she wants advice amid her meteoric rise, she should ask Taylor Swift.
Lambert has been a collaborator and an empowering source of support for Langley, an Alabama-born hitmaker whose career continued to skyrocket after she released her hit single, “Choosin’ Texas,” written by Langley, Lambert, Luke Dick and Joybeth Taylor. iHeartRadio’s Anne Hudson pointed out a moment in an interview Lambert recently shared with Billboard:
“This is so interesting. Miranda Lambert opened up to Billboard Magazine talking about how Ella called her for advice when the song ‘Choosin’ Texas’ took her career to an entire new level. But Miranda Lambert was like, ‘I don’t know what to tell you. You need to call Taylor Swift right now because that’s what this is like.’ It is that big of a deal. So I thought that was kinda funny. Miranda ’s like, ‘I had to blow her off. I didn’t know what to tell her to do.’”
“It was not on my bingo card for ‘Choosin’ Texas’ to take over the world,” Lambert told Billboard in the recent interview. “I love that song, and it so feels like such a part of me. I’m from Texas, and it was one of those things where we just wrote this song we really loved, and all of a sudden… I’ve never seen anything like it. So when Ella calls and is like, ‘What does this mean?’ I’m like, ‘I don’t know. You might need to call Taylor Swift right now [and ask her], because this is, like, that kind of big.’
Swift launched her unparalleled career with her self-titled debut country album in October 2006. She’s since shattered records in the music industry, including becoming the youngest woman to be inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, embarking on the highest-grossing tour in history, unmatched Grammys victories, and more.
Langley, who sat near Swift when she won the Best New Country Artist honor at the 2026 iHeartRadio Music Awards, told Billboard of her friendship with Lambert, “there’s not a rule book to this job, so [it’s helpful] to be able to have someone like her to ask questions… It’s just a cool time for the both of us.”