The Unlikely Reign of “Choosin’ Texas”

Ella Langley, a twenty-seven-year-old country singer from Hope Hull, Alabama, with bangs so terrifically thick and ponderous they evoke dense, pre-thunderstorm air, recently broke a major Billboard record: her single “Choosin’ Texas” is now the longest-running non-holiday song by a solo woman artist, having spent seventeen weeks atop the Hot 100.