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Choosin' Texas
Ella Langley
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- Album
- Choosin' Texas
- Released
- 2025
- Genres
- country
- Length
- 3:52
- Tempo
- 112 BPM
- Label
- SAWGOD/Columbia
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About this song
Ella Langley released the track on October 17, 2025, as the lead single for her sophomore studio album Dandelion, and it debuted alongside a lyric video. It was later given an official music video on April 1, 2026. The song became Langley's first to reach #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in February 2026, and it went on to spend 23 non-consecutive weeks atop the chart, a Billboard all-time record.
What it's about
The song is a steady, melodic country ballad about a breakup in which a man chooses his past in Texas over the life he and the singer built in Tennessee. It reverses the setup of George Straight's 1987 song "All My Ex's Live in Texas."
Summary written with AI, based on the song's page on Genius.
Fun facts
- Covered 6 times, including “Texas by Boujee Posel”.
- Written by Ella Langley, Luke Dick, Joybeth Taylor and Miranda Lambert.
- Produced by Ben West, Ella Langley and Miranda Lambert.
- Recorded at Stone Airplane (Birmingham.