Morgan Wallen teases Ella Langley’s flub, then makes similar mistake

Country star Ella Langley is talking candidly concerning the pressures of sharing the stage with Morgan Wallen, revealing she typically struggled to recollect the lyrics to considered one of his largest hits.

The 26-year-old singer was one of many opening acts throughout Wallen’s I’m the Problem Tour final 12 months. During a latest look on Theo Von’s “This Past Weekend” podcast, Langley recalled how she would be a part of Wallen, 32, onstage for a duet of his chart-topping collaboration with Tate McRae, “What I Want,” whereas on the highway.

Langley admitted that she had nervousness over performing “What I Want” with Morgan since she incessantly forgot the track’s lyrics throughout dwell exhibits.

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“When I did ‘What I Want’ with Morgan, I messed up the words almost every single time,” Langley mentioned. “I’ve never been so nervous to go out and do something. I just felt like I could throw up before I walked out there every time. I just could not remember those words.”

Ella Langley revealed that Morgan Wallen teased her for “messing up” the lyrics to his track till he made the identical mistake. (Kevin Mazur/Kevin MazurGetty Images for SiriusXM; Jason Kempin/Getty Images)

Langley defined that she would observe “What I Want” on her personal for “days” so she might bear in mind the lyrics. Last June, the Alabama native shared a behind-the-scenes TikTok clip wherein she was seen writing lyrics on her hand to assist herself get by a efficiency with Wallen in Madison, Wisconsin.

While talking with Von, Langley remembered that she “would have it” till the second got here when she needed to take the stage with Wallen.

“POV, you go through this tunnel, you know what I mean? And you’re playing in the stadium. It’s the most people you’ve ever been in front of,” she defined. “You’re walking out with Morgan Wallen, everything gets dark and there’s smoke everywhere and you got to walk out and I’m in pointy heels and there’s grates out there so you got to make sure you’re not falling down in those.”

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“You get up and then, here you go, you get one shot at it,” she continued. “There’s no practice, too. You get like one rehearsal, you go out there and it’s like, okay. But doing it in front of 80,000 people is different than 2p.m. in the middle of the day.”

Langley mentioned she “felt like I could throw up” each time earlier than she carried out “What I Want” with Wallen. (Terry Wyatt/WireImage; John Shearer/Getty Images for Morgan Wallen’s One Night At A Time 2024)

Langley mentioned that Wallen would incessantly tease her about flubbing the lyrics — till he finally made the identical mistake.

“What was awesome is the last time we did it is he came out and messed up the words,” she recalled. “When he did that, I started to laugh so hard cause he was giving me so much s— about messing up the words.”

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Langley continued, “He was just like, ‘You can’t come out here and mess this up again.’ I was like, ‘I might. I really am scared that I might.'”

Langley was one of many opening acts throughout Wallen’s I’m the Problem Tour final 12 months. (Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for SiriusXM)

“And so the last night he did and it was like, he just immediately could never say another thing to me about messing up the words, you know.”

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Langley mentioned that Wallen later advised her that he tousled the lyrics on function to make her really feel higher however she did not imagine him.

“Because when he looked back at me, it was like pure frustration that he could no longer talk s— about me for messing up the words,” she mentioned.

Langley detailed rising up in a small city as a Southern Baptist. (Jason Kempin/Getty Images)

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Langley launched her music profession on social media, gaining a following by posting covers on TikTook and Instagram, main her to launch her EP “Excuse the Mess” in 2023.

The EP helped solidify her fan base and included lots of her early hits, together with “If You Have To” and “Country Boy’s Dream Girl.” She achieved mainstream success when she collaborated with Riley Green on her hit track “You Look Like You Love Me,” which went viral on TikTook, bought thousands and thousands of streams on Spotify and Apple Music, and expanded her viewers.

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Her debut studio album, “Hungover,” was launched in August 2024, and in April 2025, Langley was introduced with the ACM New Female Artist of the Year award by nation icon and her shut buddy Miranda Lambert.

Langley’s second studio album “Dandelion” was launched on April 10.