Way past bedtime.
This week, Lainey Wilson was on Artist Friendly with Joel Madden podcast, where she talked about getting her start in Nashville, as well as working with some of the biggest names in music, like superstar Post Malone.
They wrote together for Post’s debut country album F-1 Trillion, and Lainey was featured on the song “Nosedive,” along with writing another song on the record “Have The Heart,” which featured the queen herself, Dolly Parton.
When Joel asked Lainey about working with Post, she said she was impressed with his character as much as she was with his musical talents:
“I loved every second of it, and I love him. We’ve become great friends. What I noticed about him is, even the people who are coming into the studio and taking the trash out and whatever, like, he treated them just like he treated the guy that was running the sound board.
And I’m like, he’s good people… I’m so proud that he’s part of country music. You could quiz him and be like, who wrote that song back in 1951, and how would know it… he seems very excited to be a part of it, and I’m proud he is too because I think he’s going to introduce a lot of people to country music.”
Joel added that he thinks Post will stay in country “for the rest of his life,” echoing sentiment similar to Blake Shelton, because it comes so naturally to him and he seems to really love it:
“Yeah, that’s the reputation that he has, because that’s who he is… yeah, he’s good for country music but he grew up in it, so he’s in the culture. He’s been in the culture. In fact, I think that where he started was a kid, I think he’s a musical person, he just loves music.
He’s super talented… but I think that country, it feels to me, like it’s more natural than ever… I’ll bet you he does country for the rest of his life, because everything he’s done has evolved him back to where I’ll bet you he started when he was a kid listening to records and stuff.”
Lainey also talked about how different the writing process was, because they did their sessions at night, and stayed up until 5 o’clock in the morning…
“Even when he was playing me the songs, telling my about the songs, he and Morgan and Luke Combs, they had all written that past week, he was like a little kid.
How excited he was about it, you could tell that it got him fired up, and I had never been in the studio with him when he was playing other kinds of music, but there was something about it that I was like, this is pretty cool. We wrote, Lord, I think we wrote 12 hours, that was the first night write I had ever done.
Most of the time, 10:30 in the morning… this record, I don’t think any of them were written in Nashville. Some at my house in Nashville, like a writer’s retreat, and then most of them on the road. But yeah, we wrote through the night, I was like this is some rockstar stuff I guess, this is how they do it. I’m tired.”
And when she tried to get a late night (or early morning, I guess) snack, even the McDonald’s wasn’t open yet…
“Probably 5 o’clock in the morning, I was like, shoot, I’m gonna hit up that McDonald’s, and then I got there and I realized they weren’t even open yet.”
That’s tough.
The song Lainey and Post did as a duet is so beautiful, and I hope we get to hear more of them together in the future, because it sounds like they’re cut from the same cloth in terms of how genuine and kind they are.
“Nosedive”
The full podcast episode: