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Country star Lainey Wilson is quick on her feet.
The 32-year-old hustled offstage to change her pants after hers split while she was performing at the Faster Horses music festival in Brooklyn, Michigan on Saturday, July 20. After being notified by her team, she swapped her purple pants for dark jeans.
“Y’all just about got a real show,” Wilson said to the audience, while laughing, per a TikTok video a fan recorded. “There’s a first time for everything and I’m glad it was y’all that I split my pants wide open in front of,” she said. While sitting down on a big truck onstage, Wilson continued, “You can’t make that up! I’d have never known had my people back here not seen it.”
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“I’ve got some new pants on,” Wilson told the crowd, before adding, “I tell you what, try to put on some jeans when you’re sweating. It ain’t fun. You gotta jump in them things.” Wilson went on to tell the cheering crowd that this is her first Faster Horses performance, shouting, “We are gonna have the time of our lives!”
Wilson paired her jeans with her initial look, a purple cowboy hat (that coordinated with her previous pants), and a black leather vest with silver buttons. She accessorized with a bolo tie, and wore her long blonde hair straight for the performance.
The “Hang Tight Honey” singer won her first Grammy earlier this year, with her album Bell Bottom Country taking home the trophy for best country album. She was also nominated for best country duo/group performance for Jelly Roll’s song “Save Me,” on which she is featured.
Wilson is also an actress, appearing in the fifth season of Paramount Western drama Yellowstone. Initially, creator Taylor Sheridan had reached out to the songstress because he wanted to feature her music in the second season. However, he ended up writing a role specifically for her.
Wilson plays Abby, a musician who is also a love interest for Ryan, a character played by Ian Bohen. Yellowstone had been in hiatus, but Wilson seemed to suggest to Entertainment Tonight at the premiere of Twisters that she would be returning when the show comes back in November. Wilson, who has the song “Out of Oklahoma” on the Twisters soundtrack, is currently on her Country’s Cool Again tour.
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