Getting honest about the pain. While fans are excitedly awaiting Ella Langley to give fans more information about her forthcoming 2026 record, the Alabama native satisfied fans’ need for new music with the release of “Choosin’ Texas” today. The heartbreak twanger was co-written by Miranda Lambert and tells the tale of Ella, who reminisces about a lost love who fell for a Texas girl, leaving her heartbroken in Tennessee. It’s a sad country song that makes us incredibly happy. But that’s not the only heartbreaker from Langley’s catalog. The “You Look Like You Love Me” singer is still in the midst of her Still Hungover tour, and fittingly, she’s touring around Texas this weekend right after the release of her new single. During a recent show in Houston, Langley opened up about a gut-wrenching, sad song from her last studio project, “Girl You’re Taking Home.” Langley has shared before that she never saw herself as the one getting her heart broken until a boy did a number on her and left her as the heartbroken party at the end of their relationship. In fact, Langley said the heartbreak was so severe that it moved her to learn how to pray properly. “I always felt like I was a heartbreaker, not a heartbroken-ee. But, how the turns have tabled. You know, that’s how I felt. And it happened in a way I just thought it never would, and it hurt me. It broke me down. And it was the reason, I really do feel like I learned how to pray again in a way. And I’m somebody who, I feel like I’m tough, but also when I’m going through things, I’m like ‘I’m fine! Let’s joke about it. Let’s make it hilarious.’ But in my room, by myself at night, I’m like, ‘This is terrible.’ And I’m having a terrible time.” Langley tells the crowd that her best friend and frequent songwriting collaborator, Joybeth Taylor, came to her on a writer’s retreat when she was in her feelings and encouraged her to write a song that would make this man regret his actions. “And so I was having one of those terrible times, and my best friend, her name is Joybeth Taylor, we were on a songwriters retreat, and she came in the room and she knew how heartbroken I was. So she said, ‘We’re going to write a song about this man that’s gonna make him regret the thing he ever did.’ I was like, ‘Ugh, I’m just trying to eat my KitKats right now. Can you get out of the room?’  So the next morning she came in my room and she swung the door open at 7 am and she said, ‘I’ve got the song! That’s gonna make him regret the thing he ever did!’ I don’t know if he regrets it, but it’s a hell of a song.” @alexandriarodrigu10 WHO BROKE MY GIRL ELLAS HEART???? #ellalangley #girlyouretakinghome #heartbroken #houstontexas #foryoupage ♬ original sound – Alexandria Rodriguez Langley must have come out of her dark state and alone time in her room to finish out the song with Zach Kale, Jon Nite, and Joybeth Taylor, and she’s not wrong; the end result is a hell of a song. In an interview earlier this summer with Katie & Company, Langley shared that she has loved getting to see both guys and girls singing their hearts out to it on the road, because not only is it so personal to her, but she knows it’s really about the emotion behind a song that connects with people and not so much the details: “Because it is more about the emotion, you know, and that is what I think is so cool. What I’m learning about my fan base is, and what they’re getting from me, it’s not as much always about, you know, girl, guy… I just think that’s what’s cool about music is, you can pull what emotion you want from that and just make it for you. Give you words to sing when you don’t have them to speak.” Amen to that. Fire it up before you go: The post Ella Langley Tells Texas Crowd The Heartbreak That Inspired “Girl You’re Taking Home” Taught Her To Pray Again first appeared on Whiskey Riff.