“Nothing Happens Overnight” — Lainey Wilson Talks About Working Hard & Being A Role Model For Little Girls

A role model we could all look up to.

Lainey Wilson is gearing up to release her her forthcoming Whirlwind album this month, and she’s been out on the road for her Country’s Cool Again tour since June, and still has a slew of dates left that run through November, ending in her home state of Louisiana.

And while on this run, she’s started to do a really cool thing each night where she crowns a “Cowgirl of the Night” from the audience. She pulls a little girl on stage, introduces them to the crowd and gifts the fan with a Lainey Wilson-styled cowgirl hat.

In addition, she’ll have themr ecite her mantra to the crowd like so:

“All you have to do- it’s real easy. Repeat after me, okay? Say, ‘I am beautiful. I am smart. I am talented. I can do anything. I am Cowgirl of the Night!’ Give it up for Nora! You look good too, girl.”

@laineywilson Crowning a cowgirl of the night has been one of my favorite moments on this tour y’all 🥹 Nora, you’re gonna go far sister. #ontour #livemusic #cowgirlofthenight #countrymusic #cowgirl #attagirl ♬ original sound – Lainey Wilson

It’s a beautiful thing to see, and obviously, will leave a lasting impression on these young girls in a very positive way that we honestly need to see more of in society. I think Lainey is such a good role model, especially for young women, and is a shining example of what hard work and determination will get you.

In conversation with Newsweek, Lainey says that the idea came from her mom, who from a young age taught her to speak kindly to herself, though she admits that is very hard to do, especially doing what she does for a living:

“My mama has always tried to make sure that I speak kind to myself. And that’s not easy to do. You know, we have our days, everybody does, but you got to speak it, to believe it, kind of thing.

And my job as a musician is to get up there and make people feel something and, and I want people to feel like they can do anything.”

She added that she wants all of the little girls and boys watching her to know exactly how she got to where she is, saying that “nothing happens overnight” and she wants them to see the value of hard work, and know that they can do anything if they really set their mind to it:

“I want these little girls and little boys watching me to know that I worked hard to get to where I am, and nothing happens overnight, and you got to roll your sleeves up and use a little bit of elbow grease to get where you want to go.

But I want to spread as much love and light as I possibly can, and I want to share the wisdom that people have shared with me.

And it’s hard getting up every day and saying, ‘I’m beautiful, I’m smart, I’m talented, I’m godly, I can do anything.’ I just want, I want them to truly think that about themselves.”

Lainey is one of the great ones, that’s for sure.

Of course, many of the sweet little girls are shy at first, standing in front of thousands of fans onstage, though she says the open up quickly and it’s a beautiful journey to witness:

“It’s, it’s one of those moments where we get to just really connect. And you can see these, you can see the stars in these little girls’ eyes when they’re just like, looking up at you, and they’re like, ‘What is happening right now?’

It seems like by the time they get to the end of the affirmation, like they were kind of nervous in the beginning, but by the time they get to that last line, they’re like, shouting it. And that’s what I want to see. That’s the energy that I want to see.”

I want to be Lainey Wilson when I grow up, and if I ever have a little girl, I want her to be just like Lainey too.

She has released four songs from the albums 14-song tracklist thus far, including “4x4xU,” “Country’s Cool Again,” “Hang Tight Honey” and most recently a duet with Miranda Lambert called “Good Horses.”

Whirlwind tracklist:

1. Keep Up With Jones (Lainey Wilson, Josh Kear, Wyatt McCubbin)

2. Country’s Cool Again (Lainey Wilson, Trannie Anderson, Dallas Wilson, Aslan Freeman)

3. Good Horses (feat. Miranda Lambert) (Lainey Wilson, Miranda Lambert, Luke Dick)

4. Broken Hearts Still Beat (Lainey Wilson, Dallas Wilson, Josh Thompson, Blake Pendergrass)

5. Whirlwind (Lainey Wilson, Trannie Anderson, Dallas Wilson)

6. Call A Cowboy (Lainey Wilson, Trannie Anderson, Dallas Wilson)

7. Hang Tight Honey (Lainey Wilson, Driver Williams, Jason Nix, Paul Sikes)

8. Bar In Baton Rouge (Lainey Wilson, Trannie Anderson, Kasey Tyndall, Jason Nix)

9. Counting Chickens (Lainey Wilson, Trannie Anderson, Josh Kear, Dallas Wilson, Jon Decious)

10. 4x4xU (Lainey Wilson, Jon Decious, Aaron Raitiere)

11. Ring Finger (Lainey Wilson, Aaron Raitiere, Marti Dodson, Jon Decious)

12. Middle Of It (Lainey Wilson, Trannie Anderson, Dallas Wilson)

13. Devil Don’t Go There (Lainey Wilson, Abram Dean, Lance Miller, Joe Fox)

14. Whiskey Colored Crayon (Lainey Wilson, Josh Kear, Wyatt McCubbin)