The battle of Nashville: Ella Langley smiles alongside Taylor Swift... but insiders say she plans to expose the secret that'll bring down pop's biggest star
The teenager turned up in Nashville with a guitar slung across her chest and a head full of dreams. Asked what that milestone meant, Langley, country to the core, declared: 'It means that my head's spinning around like an owl.' She added, in her Alabama drawl: 'You ever seen that? I'm just excited.'The comparisons between Langley and Swift, two Nashville-breakouts, are inevitable.It's led some to wonder if it's just coincidence that Swift's latest single, I Knew It, I Knew You, the Toy Story 5 theme, is a return to her country roots.
- ▪The teenager turned up in Nashville with a guitar slung across her chest and a head full of dreams.
- ▪Asked what that milestone meant, Langley, country to the core, declared: 'It means that my head's spinning around like an owl.' She added, in her Alabama drawl: 'You ever seen that?
- ▪I'm just excited.'The comparisons between Langley and Swift, two Nashville-breakouts, are inevitable.It's led some to wonder if it's just coincidence that Swift's latest single, I Knew It, I Knew You, the Toy Story 5 theme, is a return to h
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The teenager turned up in Nashville with a guitar slung across her chest and a head full of dreams. Talented and beautiful, country claimed her as one of its own, but a string of smash hits took her name far beyond the borders of Tennessee.Taylor Swift, who travelled that road 20 years ago, has company.Ella Langley's single Choosin' Texas has now spent 14 weeks at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 – equaling records set by Whitney Houston, with I Will Always Love You, and Mariah Carey with We Belong Together.Back in May, Langley's song surpassed Swift's 2012 hit We Are Never Getting Back Together for the most weeks at number one by a female country artist.
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