You might think reigning CMA entertainer of the year Lainey Wilson just blew up out of nowhere over the past few years. But to hear the Baskin, La. native tell it, that’s ignoring the years and years of hard-grinding, road-dogging blood, sweat and tears she’s put into becoming one of country music’s biggest stars.
“I busted out of my britches, that’s how you know it’s gonna be a good night,” Wilson says of splitting the seams on her skin-tight blue jeans in the opening frame of the trailer for her upcoming Netflix documentary Keepin’ Country Cool. The chronicle of the “Heart Like a Truck” singer’s rise to fame is detailed in the two-minute preview that dropped on Wednesday morning (April 8), including her saying, “I think a lot of people think that this was an overnight success. I’ve been here 14 years … so, a 14-year overnight success.”
The Grammy-winning star describes spending a decade being the “one you didn’t see coming,” and how she’s gone all-in to make sure you never forget her name. The trailer features adorable home video footage of Wilson at five-years-old dancing and performing on stage and playing any and every gig she could, from school events to a gig on top of an AC unit, for which she was paid with free hot dogs for the rest of her life. “That is one of the biggest flexes I will ever have,” she jokes about the Oscar-Meyer compensation.
The trailer touches on her relationship with fiancé Devlin “Duck” Hodges, her decision to freeze some of her eggs in hopes of being a mother some day and the daily grind it takes to rise to her level of fame. “I think it’s important to show people that, like, I don’t have my s–t all together,” she says.
Bottom line? “People keep sayin’ country’s cool again,” Wilson states near the end of the trailer. “Well, I say it never stopped being cool … the world just caught up.”
The film, directed by Amy Scott (Sheryl, Counting Crows: Have You Seen Me Lately?), will premiere globally on Netflix on April 22.
Watch the Keepin’ Country Cool trailer below.
