Ella Langley Shares Turning Point Behind ‘Loving Life Again’ – ‘I Looked at Myself in the Mirror and I Didn’t Recognize the Person That I Saw’

Last year, Ella Langley saw her wildest dreams starting to come true right before her eyes, but behind the scenes, her mental health was at an all-time low. Instead of letting the heaviness take over, she stepped back from it all, came back stronger, and is now ready to share her story in a brand-new song.

“Everything got so big, and I got everything I ever wanted. Everything I had ever wanted, I dreamed about since I was a little kid, and it was all coming true,” Langley recently explained to a crowd in Chattanooga.

She admits mental health has been an ongoing challenge in her life, sometimes hanging over her like dark clouds even in the midst of her biggest career highs. Eventually, she had to step away from the thing she loved most to protect her well-being and ensure she could continue making music for the long haul.

“I was by myself. I didn’t get to celebrate it with my family. They were gone, you know, I was gone. I got to celebrate it with people that I love, but it was, you know, it looked different than it always looked. It looked different than I thought it would look like,” she explained. “I got to a point last year where I looked at myself in the mirror and I didn’t recognize the person that I saw. The people around me didn’t recognize the person that they saw. And I decided that this thing wasn’t more important than me, this thing that I’m doing.”

The songstress discovered during this time that all the success and achievements weren’t as meaningful when the people she loved most weren’t there to celebrate with her. So, she canceled a couple of weeks of shows, the first time she had ever canceled a show since she started performing at 18, and went home.

“I luckily had closed on a house that I had just bought right next to my parents, and I got to spend two weeks sitting there next to my mom and my daddy. I got to read my Bible and be next to my family in a way that I hadn’t gotten to do since I was 18 years old. And I’ll tell you, I got so far away from myself that it genuinely took me going back to number one, the place where I started to be, find the person that I thought I was and who I wanted to be.”

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That period of reflection and down time allowed her to come out a different person. Langley found herself to be more confident in herself, in her career and that she had surrounded herself with the right people. The Alabama native also revealed that fellow singer/songwriter ERNEST, became a person to lean on and confide in.

“I was also grateful again for the life that I had been given and I wasn’t taking that for granted. Throughout this whole time, a good friend of mine, a good friend of all of ours up here on this stage, his name is Ernest Keith Smith. He was somebody I talked to a lot last year about my mental health and what I was going through and when I came back from those two weeks, we were sitting at my front porch, and he looked at me and said, ‘how you doing?’ I said, ‘well, looks like I’m back to loving life again.’”

Being the talented songwriters that they are, they immediately took that statement and turned it into tune titled “Loving Life Again.” According to a new Instagram post from the “Choosin’ Texas” singer, this track will serve as the last single to be unveiled before her Dandelion album drops on April 10.

She wrote, “This song means so much to me, and I knew that it had to be the last single before Dandelion is out.”

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Based on the previews she has shared, the narrative reveals Ella Langley in a softer light, capturing a reflective, heartfelt journey through life’s highs and lows. It explores seasons of change and the weight of her own thoughts. As the song reaches the chorus, Langley finds peace in music and ultimately rediscovers the joy of ‘loving life again.’

“Loving Life Again” will follow previously released tracks from the complete collection, “Choosin’ Texas,” “Be Her,” and the title track.