Mar. 15, 2025
Rising starLaila!is making a career out of being 100% carefree.
Laila! in her ‘Not My Problem’ music video.
It begins outside of a New York City nightclub, where Laila! and her girls roll up on the former’s boyfriend, seen cozied up with another girl. However, she calmly brushes off her lover’s cheating ways, telling her crew, “You know what, y’all, that’s not my problem.”
“I always imagined [the video] having to do with a self-help kind of thing,” she tells PEOPLE, “[saying] ‘This is not my problem’ and how you can apply that to your daily life because it’s something we can all relate to.
Mar. 15, 2025
Lainey Wilson performs at the ACM Awards in Texas in April 2023.Photo:Kevin Mazur/Getty
Kevin Mazur/Getty
Lainey Wilsonslipped into herfirst pair of bell-bottomswhen she was just a “little girl.” Then, when she moved to Nashville in 2011, the super-flared pants found their way into her closet again (ironically during the year of jeggings) — and this time for good.The rest, she says, is history.“A few years in [to her music career], I realized pretty quickly that as a decent female singer-songwriter, that’s not enough.
Mar. 15, 2025
Lainey Wilson performs onstage during the CMA Music festival at Nissan Stadium in June 2024 in Nashville.Photo:Terry Wyatt/WireImage
Terry Wyatt/WireImage
Lainey Wilsonis opening up about the “pressure” that comes with stardom — and the importance of being a role model to her many young fans.
“I feel like I can handle that pressure. I feel like at the end of the day, I still fear Mama, Daddy, and the Lord, and I try my best not to do things that would disappoint them,” she says.
Mar. 15, 2025
Duck Hodges and Lainey Wilson at the 2024 CMT Music Awards; Duck Hodges and Lainey Wilson in a rare video.Photo:Christopher Polk/Billboard via Getty; laineywilson/Instagram
Christopher Polk/Billboard via Getty; laineywilson/Instagram
The 32-year-old country singer — whoprefers to keep her relationship with Hodges, 28, private— just shared a rare glimpse into the couple’s home life, complete with a sweet lyrical nod to the former NFL quarterback.
On Wednesday, Oct. 9, Wilsonshared a videoof the couple on Instagram soundtracked to a snippet of her song “4x4xU.
Mar. 15, 2025
Lainey Wilson performs in Austin, Texas on April 7, 2024.Photo:Hubert Vestil/Getty
Hubert Vestil/Getty
Lainey Wilsonmade one young cancer survivor’s dreams come true in a big way.
The “Heart Like a Truck” singer brought the girl onstage and then kneeled beside her to ask, “Do you want to hold it up for them?”
With the singer’s encouragement, the girl showed off her sign to everyone in the amphitheater.
Wilson then began reading the list into her microphone.