Riley Green Says It Would Be “Really Difficult” Not To Do Another Duet With Ella Langley After How Successful “You Look Like You Love Me” Has Been

Caylee Robillard

I’m sure it would be a huge hit.

Last week at the 59th CMA Awards, Ella Langley and Riley Green took home three awards for their 2024 smash hit, “you look like you love me.” The track would win Single and Song of the Year as well as Music Video of the Year, sweeping its three eligible categories and becoming the FIRST song in the history of the CMA Awards to take home all three awards on a single night.

The song has obviously put up massive streaming numbers (267 million on Spotify alone), and has been one of the most-played songs on Billboard’s new TouchTunes Frontline chart, peaking at #6 throughout the second quarter of 2025. Couple all those accolades with a 2x platinum certification from the RIAA and a #1 spot on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart last December, and you have yourself one of the most successful songs of the past few years.

It’s been a juggernaut, to say the least, and they’ve also had a lot of success with their other duet “Don’t Mind If I Do,” which was featured on Riley’s 2024 album of the same name, and we all know their a duo that really works… so well, in fact, that dating rumors surrounded them for the better part of a year which I’m sure you heard about at some point.

But musically, their styles just work, and Riley told iHeart Country the other day that they might do another duet one day because they’ve seen how well it works:

“It would be really difficult not to try to do another song with Ella because that’s really worked well. I think any collaboration that I do has got to be something that’s really organic.

And just, you know, somebody that I have a relationship with, somebody I’m friends with, somebody I’m a fan of, and has the same musical inspirations that I did. I think me and Ella grew up the same way, and I think fans can tell when it’s real.

There’s certainly some collaborations that go through management and labels and the proper channels, and I’ve never done it that way. It’s always been somebody I’m friends with says ‘Hey, I like this song, wanna be a part of it?’”

He added that the fans were obviously a huge part of making it a hit, and he was blown away at how well it was received, because like he’s mentioned before, he feared it might be “too traditional” for 2025:

“I thought it was a cool thing. I thought the chorus was catchy. It stayed in your head, but then we played it on the road and it became a thing,” he said. “You couldn’t open your phone without hearing it, and it became a radio hit.

‘Don’t Mind If I Do’ is kind of the same way. I had no idea it was gonna be that. So, I got to watch fans’ excitement when Ella would come out on stage with me when we were on tour together, and we would do those songs.

That doesn’t happen much for an artist, two artists to have two really big songs together while they’re touring together. We got to do that for the better part of two years.”

It was lighting in a bottle in many ways, and it clearly helped both of their careers in immeasurable ways, and while I think if another duet does happen again, it will be a while from now, I’m sure it would be a huge hit because they make a powerhouse duo.

Though it will be hard to top what this song did for them…