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As the excitement builds ahead of the rumoured Night at the Museum reboot, Lainey Wilson has left us feeling nostalgic for Ben Stiller's original with a new performance of ‘Devil Don't Go There’ recorded at the American Museum of Natural History.
‘Devil Don't Go There’ remains one of the stand-outs from Wilson's 2025 Whirlwind album, which was given a deluxe revamp with the addition of five new songs in August.
As far as settings go, it doesn't get much more iconic than this, with Wilson and a trio of band-mates chilling in the centre of one of the New York museum's main halls with a couple of colossal dinosaur skeletons standing tall behind them.
The Louisiana titan's vocals are on point as always, with the echoey nature of the expansive hall adding an extra sense of drama and atmosphere to the performance.
The track finds Wilson likening a lover's cold-hearted break-up to the anguish that lies beyond the gates of Hell, suggesting that “even the Devil” wouldn't stoop as low as her ex stooped that fateful day (“Even the Devil don't go there / The way you did me that night / I bet the hell you put me through / Could make his angels cry”).
The ‘Heart Like a Truck’ singer-songwriter has uploaded a snippet of her new American Museum of Natural History performance to TikTok, and has hilariously responded to a fan that joked, “Wow Lainey Wilson. Will this be a new version of Night at the Museum?”, by referencing the hilarious moment the Easter Island Head statue mocks Stiller's character, quipping, “Dum-Dum want some gum-gum”.
With Wilson making her silver-screen debut in Colleen Hoover's Reminders of Him next March, perhaps a cameo in the Night at the Museum reboot wouldn't be out of the question...
Watch Lainey Wilson's acoustic performance of ‘Devil Don't Go There’ below:
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