Fueling the transition from her sophomore album, Hungover, to her upcoming release, Dandelion, Ella Langley has been extremely transparent that leaning into the Lord has been one of the main driving forces behind this new era.
After a heavy year of touring last year and on the rise to stardom, Langley took a mental health hiatus in August 2025. Cancelling all of her show dates, the Alabama native returned home for some R&R to regain her roots and found herself opening up her bible more.
This rediscovery of her faith and putting her trust into God has been a major talking point for Langley as she amps up to the release of this 18-track project, which is now less than a month away on April 10. Sharing her bible reading sessions and the devotional that she’s been loving via social media recently, the 26-year-old singer-songwriter said at a BMI press release event that reading her bible back home, “really centers me and reminds me what’s important in my life.”
Expanding on this, just yesterday, she shared one of the touching moments that kept her grounded as she continues to expand in this cutthroat industry. Sitting alongside “Lesson In Leavin'” singer, Jo Dee Messina, at a Country Radio Seminar event, Langley detailed her traffic story time that she perceived as a little nod from God.
“I was at the stoplight and there was this one white car, and there was all these black cars around it. And I was like, you know thats kinda like what the devils doing to me right now.” Adding, “It was like I was getting attacked by all of these different angles and there’s this one amazing thing happening but for some reason my brains not letting it happen.”
Then Langley thought to herself, “It’d be kinda crazy if another white car came.” Sure enough, coincidence or not, another white car appeared, to which she repeated again, “It’d be crazy if another white car” to which another one, then another, followed by a train of what she describes as a flood of white cars came by.
Adding on to the moment, Langley notes that while the car was quiet in the moment, the radio was playing a religious station. “I look back over out the window, and there’s a white car with a ‘He’s greater’ sign all on the back of it. So I’m sitting there having the most insane God moment of my life.”
She says in this moment she finally understood all of those Jesus-touching moments they’d describe in church as a kid, where she “felt him talking to me, I heard him talking to me.” As the ultimate cherry on top, Langley notes that the Uber driver, who is completely unaware of this grappling backseat moment she’s enduring, looks in the rearview and tells her, “God’s got you.”
The Uber driver continued to share her testimony, saying, “I went through something early on in my life, I lost my baby son, and I thought that was gonna kill me, but God had me the entire time, and I just felt called to tell you that.” The sweet, vulnerable, unknown woman put her hand back on Langley’s leg and started singing hymns, bringing her to tears, “I just sat there and cried like a little kid and just for the first time in my life accepted that presence that has been there the whole entire time.”
It was a simple sign like this, and the kindness shown by a stranger, that Langley attributed to her being able to overcome feeling unworthy of her fame and the success God has given her. Solidifying itself as the last single before Dandelion is released, today Langley dropped the 8th track off of the album, “Loving Life Again,” and it’s a perfect reflection of this conversation.
The track, which was a product of Langley’s revitalization while being back home in August, talks about her Grandma, who she says also used to sing her sweet hymns, just like the Uber driver, “Is that Grandma? I think she’s calling me. When days are long, I drift away, I sing that sweet ‘Amazing Grace.'” As the undeclared anthem of spring (fittingly released on the start of the spring equinox), it’ll be interesting to see if this theme of faith ties into any of the other tracks still to come.