Ella Langley’s highly-anticipated album Dandelion is dropping tomorrow (well tonight at midnight EST), April 10th, and her latest single “Choosin’ Texas” is already the biggest song of her career, and is on its way to becoming the biggest song of 2026 in ANY genre. As of this morning, she’s one of the top-nominated artists being up for Ella Langley is one of the top nominees for the 61st Academy of Country Music (ACM) Awards, earning seven nominations with Single of the Year for “Choosin’ Texas,” Song of the Year for “Choosin’ Texas,” Music Event of the Year for “Don’t Mind If I Do,” as well as Female Artist of the Year Visual Media of the Year, Artist-Songwriter of the Year and Single of the Year (Producer), her first nomination credited as a producer. And this week she sat down with Theo Von for his This Past Weekend podcast, where she talked about her life growing up, her passion for music, and what it has been like to adjust to her newfound fame that’s no well past just country fans. She talked about how people will come up and ask her for selfies at less-than-ideal times (like when she’s on the floor at the gym working out), and while her career has obviously taken off, she’s still working on finding a relationship. Of course, we all know her dating life has been put directly in the spotlight, especially when it came to Ella and Riley Green and whatever they may or may not have been, and I can’t imagine that is exactly fun to have people constantly speculating and wanting to know about your personal life. She told Theo that she has been saying and trying to figure out that part of her life, but obviously, it’s been even more complicated with everything going on in her career: “I mean, me being 26 and not married, I’ve been dating, you know. I’ve been trying to figure that portion of my life out too, which is complicated when you have pretty much given your everything to this one thing.” Ella still has plenty of time, and I have no doubt she’ll find the right guy eventually, and while in many ways dating is probably even more exciting given her status, it has to be super challenging, too, because just never know someone’s true motivations, especially in the beginning. Theo asked if she had any commitment issues or songs that stem from that place, and Ella explained that she’s still trying to figure everything out, and when it comes to her music, she wants to just have fun with it most of all: “You know, I think that’s a thing that sometimes, people thing abut too much, honestly. Where it’s like, what is the purpose to everything? What is the finished product? I don’t know, I’m only 26. It’s like, I’m not going in there thinking, play, I need an up tempo song today and I need it to be perfect for radio, or I need to write this type of acoustic thing. I’m going in there and just writing songs. Like, whatever comes out that day comes out. I’m really big on not forcing… if I  feel like I’m in there and ‘m not having fun, why are we dong this? I somehow got to do the job I’ve always wanted to do. No way I’m not gonna let it be fun. We’re sitting in here writing songs, you know? So yeah, sometimes I’ll have a little that I really want to write or someone in the room will say something, and if all you click on that title, you’ve gotta chase it.” Like most artists who write their own songs, I think Ella pulls from her personal life when it comes to some of her songs, and she hinted that some of them could be interpreted that way if fans want to dig for it. I have no doubt that they will, fans are great at that kind of thing, but I can’t wait to hear all fo the new music because Ella has put out some great singles in the lead up to this huge release. “Choosin’ Texas” The post Ella Langley Reveals Why It’s “Complicated” Trying To Date At This Point In Her Country Music Career first appeared on Whiskey Riff.