Lainey Wilson has a trippy new video, out now. Wilson just released the video for "Somewhere Over Laredo," her current single. The song is from Wilson's Whirlwind Deluxe album, out on August 22.
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In the video, and thanks to a lot of special effects, Wilson does things she has never been able to do before, until now. The video, like the song, pays homage to Judy Garland's "Somewhere Over the Rainbow," from The Wizard of Oz.
"I had not had the opportunity to make a video that I felt like deserved that kind of trippiness," boasts to People. "When you think about The Wizard of Oz, and you think about the 'Yellow Brick Road,' of course. You think of 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow,' and this [song] is an interpolation of that. It's a way for us to tip our hat to that and acknowledge how timeless of a song that is. It was important for me to kind of draw the parallel between the songs."
The video for "Somewhere Over Laredo" might have taken Wilson outside of her comfort zone. Still, she is thrilled with the end result.
"I had the time of my life doing it," Wilson says. "I was doing all kinds of things, pretending to be falling through the air, the sky, and all of these crazy things that I had never done before."
The Success of Lainey Wilson's "Somewhere Over Laredo"
Only a few weeks after "Somewhere Over Laredo" was released, Wilson already has a Top 25 single. The song is also her highest-streaming song to date. Wilson is grateful, although not very surprised by the song's success.
"Honestly, I am proud of the song, and I felt like it was special the moment we finished it," Wilson says of the tune, which she wrote with Trannie Anderson, Dallas Wilson and Andy Albert. "I felt it in my spirit that the songwriter was going to take people to a nostalgic place, and I'm so glad that my gut was right because it seems like people are latching onto it and connecting to it. It's crazy to see the reaction."
"Somewhere Over Laredo" is the end of one chapter for Wilson, and the start of an exciting new one, as she is hard at work on her next record.
