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Lainey Wilson’s Trip To Australia Wraps: ‘Thank You’

Author Nancy Brooks // Country Writer, Beasley Media Group

Lainey Wilson’s trip to Australia to play for fans has ended, and Lainey posted a video with a message for her fans there on her social media.

Lainey Wilson’s Trip To Australia

She said in the clip, “Never in a million years did I think as a little girl that I’d be playing country music literally on the opposite side of the world or that there would be people on this side of the world that would have anything in common with me.”

Being Present

Wilson continued, “The goal is to be as present as I possibly can because I want to remember this. These moments are important ones, and they slip away really, really quickly. I want to remember my first.”

The clip shows many moments of her trip down under, including being on a boat with her crew riding horses, holding Koala bears, and more.

Thank You

She ends the clip in black and white, saying, “To the Australian fans, I just want to say thank you. I remember a time not too long ago when nobody showed up, so I don’t take it for granted when people actually do, especially on the other side of the world.”

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Lainey captioned the video post on Instagram, “I’m living the dreams I didn’t even realize I could dream about as a little girl. Thank you for welcoming me with open arms, Australia! Europe & UK, you’re up next.”

Wilson took time while in Australia to be a tourist and enjoy some of the country’s many sites. Lainey visited the Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary and got an unexpected surprise.

The Incident

She posted a video clip of the moment on her Instagram. In the video, Lainey is wearing her signature bell bottoms, a ball cap, glasses, and a Barbara Mandrell t-shirt. She says in the clip, as she and her group get ready to go into the sanctuary to visit the animals, “I just got s— on. Okay. I don’t know what to do. I just got s— all over. Dang.” One of her crew tells her that it’s considered good luck in some cultures, and she replies, “Yeah, I get blessed, baby.” Her friend then points out that she has a worm crawling up her sleeve, and she says, “You are lying.”

Holding a Koala

Wilson then gets ready to hold a Koala. She says, “I got s— on by a bird this morning, about to hold a Koala; life is good.” The guide tells Lainey to hold steady and she nervously holds the Koala. In the same video, Wilson gets to pet and feed a large Kangaroo, which she comments is just “huge.”

She captioned the post, “I’m just out here makin’ friends with the locals.”

The Youngest Superstars in Country Music Today

  • HARDY - 33

    HARDY has made quite a name for himself in country music as one of the most successful songwriters in Nashville, later becoming a headliner. In 2023, his opener was Lainey Wilson, who will kick off her headling “Country’s Cool Again” Tour this summer. HARDY’s “Wait In The Truck,” which won numerous awards in country music in 2022 and 2023, catapulted him to stardom.

    Before his star rose as an artist, he was best known for writing hit songs for Blake Shelton (“God’s Country”) and Morgan Wallen (“Sand In My Boots”).

  • Lainey Wilson - 31

    Lainey is country music’s biggest star right now, having won the CMA’s Entertainer of the Year award in November, with the likelihood she will win the same honor from the ACM in 2024. He star shot straight up as her hit songs started to pour out of her with the release of her album Bell Bottom Country. That album was named Album of the Year by the CMA and the ACM and a GRAMMY for Best Country Album.

    Wilson can do no wrong as she readies her 2024 headlining tour, “Country’s Cool Again.” Recently, she has appeared on every national talk show, late-night show, and many TV tapings, including an Elvis Presley Christmas special in December from Graceland and a recent Pet fashion show on NBC with Dolly Parton to raise money for pets.

    Lainey moved to Nashville before she was out of her teens and worked hard for eleven years before her country music dreams started to come true.

  • Morgan Wallen - 30

    It’s hard to believe how much success this guy has had since he did NOT win or even make the finals on NBC’s The Voice (he only made the Top 20). Even with some controversy, Morgan managed to top record charts and break records at Billboard.

    Wallen embarked on a stadium tour in 2023, and even though he had to cancel many shows because of vocal problems, fans still came out to fill stadiums after he returned to the road and to the stage.

    In 2024, he has set his sights on playing Hyde Park In London after a successful run in Great Britain in December of 2023. That same month, he recorded songs at the famous Abbey Road Studios, which he had just released to rave reviews.

  • Kane Brown - 30

    Kane is a young father of two with a baby boy on the way. Making his way to Nashville for Chattanooga a few years ago, he quickly became a superstar and is headlining the “In The Air” tour in 2024. One of the tour’s openers is Tyler Hubbard, a guy Brown opened for early in his career for Florida Georgia Line.

    Tyler told us, “It was incredible to watch him take on the challenge and grow a ton on that tour. Now, it’s full circle. Now I’m getting to open up for him, and I watch him play, and I’m just like, ‘Wow, he’s really grown into something special.’ He’s just an awesome dude; he’s a great artist. I think he has really found himself and knows who he is and what he wants to be.”

    Brown is working on new music, and a new album is coming soon. There is no stopping this guy from continuing to rise in country music and beyond.

  • Kelsea Ballerini - 30

    Kelsea has had a few amazing years, including 2023, when she released her album Rolling Up The Welcome Mat after her divorce from fellow country singer Morgan Evans. That album, which she didn’t tell her record label about until just weeks before she released it, was nominated for a GRAMMY in 2024 for Best Country Album.

    She has become one of CMT’s favorite hosts, signing on to host the popular award show again this year, making it the fourth time she has hosted the show in a row.

    Ballerini also played her first headlining arena tour in Knoxville, her hometown, late last year, proving herself to be quite the performer. In 2023, she was also named in Time Magazine’s 100 Next list. She has graced the cover of many fashion magazines in the last few years and even started her own makeup line at Cover Girl.

Nancy Brooks has been working in the country music industry for almost 30 years. She has interviewed pretty much any country star you can think of. In the late 1990s, she started working with Dolly Parton. And yes, Nancy reports that Parton is as sweet as you would think. She loves her life in country music and has been backstage at every CMA Awards show since the late 1990s. Many of her stories are from her one-on-one interviews. She was there at the beginning of the incredible careers of many music superstars today, including Taylor Swift, Shania Twain, and Blake Shelton, and has interviewed them multiple times throughout the years.

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Author Nancy Brooks // Country Writer, Beasley Media Group
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