“I think it is important to show people that, like, I don’t have my shit all together,” singer says
There’s a scene in the middle of the trailer for Netflix‘s upcoming documentary, Lainey Wilson: Keepin’ Country Cool, in which she’s sitting in a backstage lounge, wearing a sign that says, “NOBODY SPEAK TO LAINEY.” In voiceover, she says, “I think it is important to show people that, like, I don’t have my shit all together.” The scene is endearing and captures the spirit of what the film, which hits the streamer on April 22, is all about. Amy Scott, who directed the films Counting Crows: Have You Seen Me Lately? and Sheryl, directed the picture.
The two-minute preview for the doc summarizes Lainey Wilson’s 33 years so far: she’s not an overnight success, since she put 14 years into her breakthrough; she once performed at what looks like a county fair and her “payment was free hot dogs for the rest of [her] entire life”; and she has had to make compromises in her life for her career, such as freezing her eggs for a future IVF cycle. The preview suggests the film is a rare, no-holds-barred look at it what it takes to make it in country music.
It also will show how the artist, who has won Grammys, ACMs, and CMAs, feels about the state of country music. “People keep saying country’s cool again,” she says. “Well, I say it never stopped being cool. The world just caught up.”
Wilson will next show how cool country is in May when she performs at the Academy of Country Music Awards in Las Vegas. She’s set to give a new song, “Can’t Sit Still,” its world-premiere performance at the gala event.
