Miranda Lambert and Ella Langley might just be one of our favourite country duos this year, with the powerhouses continuing to show love to one another on socials following their explosive, electric ‘Kerosene’ performance at the 2025 ACM Awards.

Taking to Instagram, Miranda Lambert has paid tribute to Ella Langley with a flurry of new photos of the duo together. Alongside the social media carousel, Lambert has endearingly gushed, “My fellow dog-loving, country music soul sister @ellalangleymusic y’all”. Langley has heartwarmingly commented in response, “I love youuuuu”.

The two have become good friends in recent months, with Lambert surprising Langley with the news that she had been crowned the 2025 ACM New Female Aritst of the Year in late April, via a sweet Jumbotron broadcast during the latter’s show in Tennessee.

During their fiery, rock-tinged performance of Miranda Lambert’s iconic 2005 anthem, ‘Kerosene’, on the ACM Awards stage earlier in the month, Ella Langley tipped her cap to Lambert’s signature look from that year by donning her ‘Mama Tried’ shirt.

Miranda Lambert has regularly emphasised her appreciation for how Ella Langley shares her mission of helping rescue dogs across the US, with Lambert spearheading this charge through her transformative MuttNation non-profit organisation.

With Miranda Lambert joining forces with a couple of fellow female country titans, Reba McEntire and Lainey Wilson, for the traditional-leaning new single, ‘Trailblazer’, we’re hoping it’s not too long before we get to enjoy Lambert teaming up with another female country trailblazer, Ella Langley, in the studio for a country-rock smash.

Ella Langley Takes Credit for Riley Green’s Mustache: ‘You Can Thank Me’

Ella Langley, the winningest person at this year’s ACM Awards, has an admission to make about her tourmate and duet partner Riley Green.

That mustache everyone loves? That’s her doing — at least, she encouraged him to keep it.

“Everyone’s excited about Riley’s mustache. You can thank me for Riley’s mustache,” Langley said backstage after the ACM Awards.

“Other than God, I guess.”

Langley explains that she co-directed the “You Look Like You Love Me” music video — her duet with Green, which led to three ACM Awards wins last week, including Single of the Year — and she knew she wanted it to look like “an old Western.”

That’s what the song reminds her of, so she pictured it taking place in a saloon in the Old West.

“I told Riley that he could not shave his mustache off, at least for the music video,” she says.

“… and so here we are still, a year later, and I don’t think he can get rid of the ‘stache. We’re stuck this way.”

As for her bangs? Same thing — she’s not getting rid of them. “I don’t think I would now,” Langley admits. “It really does fit my face.”

“Plus, who needs Botox when you have bangs?” she quips.

Green is seemingly fond of his facial hair, too — he even named it, “The Conquistador.”

“You know what I realized? I can hide a lot of emotions with this,” he admitted of his mustache and soul patch in an interview last fall. It’s his poker face assist.

Mustaches have made a big comeback in 2025, especially in country music. Take Zach Top, the 2025 ACM New Male Artist of the Year, for example — he’s rocking quite a fur sash on his upper lip, and fans have taken to it, as well. They even joke that he looks like he’s Alan Jackson’s son.

Tucker Wetmore is another newer country artist who rocks a mustache quite well: