{"id":6617,"date":"2026-06-12T17:46:55","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T22:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/?p=6617"},"modified":"2026-06-12T17:46:55","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T22:46:55","slug":"elizabeth-langley-im-in-the-back-half-of-my-twenties-and-still-figuring-it-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/?p=6617","title":{"rendered":"Elizabeth Langley \u201cI\u2019m In The Back Half Of My Twenties And Still Figuring It Out”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Elizabeth Camille Langley<\/strong><\/em><\/span> an American singer-songwriter from Alabama who blends outlaw country, modern rock, and traditional storytelling. Her music is known for its gritty Southern rock influences, emotionally charged lyrics, and honeyed vocals. Langley first gained attention through viral social media performances and songwriting collaborations.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m in the back half of my twenties and still figuring it out, but I feel like I do it with a little more confidence,\u201d Ella Langley tells Apple Music. \u201cThat\u2019s why a lot of these songs represent that. They represent that feeling of, like, you know, you\u2019re still figuring it out, but you\u2019re trying to do it a little bit better each time.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Arriving in the midst of Langley\u2019s historic 2026 run atop Billboard\u2019s Hot 100, Dandelion is a monolithic country-pop album in an easy, understated disguise. Across 18 polished tracks, the Alabama native channels the hazy, reflective side of a neon-lit barroom on her sophomore album, inching towards a broader pop audience the whole time. The disco ball is definitely still turned on, but melancholy and longing pervade, whether in the danceable heartbreak tune \u201cChoosin\u2019 Texas,\u201d about watching someone walk away, or \u201cSomethin\u2019 Simple,\u201d a groovy song about wishing you were settled down even in the midst of a meteoric rise.<\/p>\n

For the album, the singer-songwriter tapped some of Nashville\u2019s most beloved studio talents, including guitarist Charlie Worsham, bassist Rachel Loy, and pedal steel player Spencer Cullum, whose romantic licks drive home the release\u2019s deep twang from front to back. Langley herself produced the album alongside Nashville veterans Ben West and Miranda Lambert\u2014yes, the star took a background role (except on the duet \u201cButterfly Season\u201d). Together, they crafted a slick, shimmering, yet still familiar and well-worn old-school sound, where all that pedal steel meets lush string sections to soundtrack the smoother side of boot-scootin\u2019.<\/p>\n

The release, almost entirely co-written by Langley, is book-ended by Langley singing the classic folk song \u201cFroggy Went A Courtin\u2019,\u201d solo and acoustic\u2014a nod to the fact that it was one of the first songs she ever learned how to play. With her version of Kitty Wells\u2019 \u201cIt Wasn\u2019t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels,\u201d Langley\u2019s arc is etched into the record: from singing the first song she learned to singing the first No. 1 country song by a woman artist as the performer of the longest-running country No. 1 ever by a woman artist. Rock solid, effortlessly country and cleverly poppy, Dandelion is a victory lap for an artist who makes defying country music\u2019s long-standing gender inequity sound easy.<\/p>\n

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Elizabeth Camille Langley an American singer-songwriter from Alabama who blends outlaw country, modern rock, and traditional storytelling. Her music is known for its gritty Southern rock influences, emotionally charged lyrics, and honeyed vocals. Langley first gained attention through viral social media performances and songwriting collaborations. \u201cI\u2019m in the back half of my twenties and still […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6619,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conversations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6620,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6617\/revisions\/6620"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}