June 21, 2024: Langley’s hit track “You Look Like You Love Me” featuring Riley Green comes out, sparking relationship rumors alongside its viral success. “I think one of the first times we played it, you open your phone the next day and you couldn’t get away from it,” Green told People in November 2024. “It all kind of makes sense. The song’s just a huge hit and people really latched onto it from the first time it came out.”
February—June 2024: Ella Langley opens for Riley Green on his Ain’t My Last Rodeo tour. During that tour, they collab on Langley’s track “You Look Like You Love Me.” According to both parties, she had already cut a version of the song prior to joining Green’s tour.
“I heard the song through our mutual friend, and Ella played it for me some, and I wrote a verse for it, and it just became this giant hit song,” Green told Backstage Country in November 2024.
As Langley told People, “I was like, ‘Dang, imagine if Riley were to write a second verse of this song? Just him talking.’ It’s a different thing and stuff that we both grew up on.”
Green expanded on his verse’s origin during his appearance on The Viall Files. “I first heard it from a promoter that kind of helps manage her, a buddy of mine. I was touring in Alabama, and he would put her on some shows of mine. I liked her voice, she’s obviously from Alabama. Very country, which I liked,” he said. “And he played the song for me, and it wasn’t really pitched to me like it needed to be a duet, he was just like, ‘What do you think about this?’ And I was like, ‘It’s cool, like there’s something cool about the girl picking up the guy or whatever.’”
Green continued, “The second verse was like more of the first verse, and I thought, Well, Ella’s going on tour with me next year, maybe if the second verse was the guy’s perspective or something, we might have a song to play on tour. I had no idea it would be a hit at all.”
Prior to June 2024: Though they haven’t shared the specifics, Langley told People she’d known Green for “a long, long time,” while Green told Backstage Country the pair met through a mutual friend.
“Yeah, I’ve been a big fan of Ella Langley for a long time,” Green said. “We met through a mutual friend, and I was kinda in as soon as I heard her voice and her twang and how country she sounded, and also that she loved what I would call traditional country music.”
In September 2024, Langley told Taste of Country that Green was “probably the first famous person I ever met,” adding, “He was playing all the same bars I went to, and I played the same bars as him. It’s cool to see Alabama people winning!”
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