"They All Had Tears in Their Eyes:" Ella Langley Shares the Moment She Knew 'Loving Life Again' Would Be Her Next Single

An artist's next single isn't always an obvious choice. Sometimes, a song has to reveal itself in a special way in order to be picked to showcase a musician's latest chapter.

Ella Langley's newest offering, 'Loving Life Again', which arrived on Friday (Mar. 20), wasn't originally going to get a single release ahead of the arrival of her Dandelion album on April 10. However, one particular performance changed the trajectory of the project's roll-out.

At this year's Country Radio Seminar, the hitmaker shared the moment she knew 'Loving Life Again' was deserving of a separate release while in intimate conversation with fellow country powerhouse Jo Dee Messina.

"I did something for iHeart [Radio] a couple weeks ago," she explained, "and it changed the direction of my last single for the record."

When performing 'Loving Life Again' for the media company, she shared how everyone was emotionally moved by the nostalgic tune. She explained, "They all had tears their eyes when they were coming up and talking about it. They were like, 'Is that the next single?' I'm like, 'Should it be?'"

To her, that was the signal that 'Loving Life Again' deserved a standout moment ahead of Dandelion.

Messina then asked the star to sing a bit of the then-still-to-be-released song. She chose to sing from the second verse, which contains a little nod to someone Langley holds dear.

"My grandma, anytime you needed to go looking for her around the house, she would never be like, 'I'm in here,'" the artist shared. "You'd be like, 'Grandma!', and she'd go, 'Yoo Hoo.' You would have to find her wherever she was. She would just keep doing it, going from room to room. So I put that part in the song as a little thing for my dad."

"See that red dirt?," she then sang a cappella to the enraptured crowd, "Hear that front porch swing / Is that Grandma? / I think she's callin' me / 'Yoo Hoo'."

Even more personal songs are set to abound across Langley's upcoming Dandelion release. When she announced the forthcoming release in January, she shared, “This next record to me has so much growth in it ... I feel the most myself I've ever felt. I want you to dance, I want you to sing, I want you to be able to relate to these words in a way where you don't feel alone in your thoughts."

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