Ella Langley’s music video for “Choosin’ Texas” turns the Stagecoach Ballroom in Fort Worth into a mini‑movie packed with celebrity cameos, rodeo stars and Texas country lifers that bring the song’s lyrics to life. The video follows Langley’s narrator — the soon‑to‑be drinking‑alone protagonist — a lone‑wandering cowboy and a Lone Star vixen set on winning him over, while a cast of recognizable faces punctuates key moments of the story.
Yellowstone and Marshals actor Luke Grimes plays the cowboy who cannot resist the pull of Texas; alongside the footage, Grimes is preparing to release his own country album, Red Bird. Miranda Lambert, who co‑wrote “Choosin’ Texas” with Langley and co‑produced Langley’s forthcoming album Dandelion, appears as a weathered country sage in the video, the kind of singer who’s already seen this heartbreak play out and knows which way the cowboy will go.
The video also stages a memorable women’s‑room moment in which former theater kid Kaitlin Butts — an Oklahoma native — taunts Langley’s character, warning that Grimes’ cowboy won’t choose her. Butts later wrote online after the premiere, “Sorry for being so mean to you!” Ava Phillippe, who lives in Nashville and is the daughter of actors Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Phillippe, plays the woman who makes a play for Grimes, her resemblance to her mother noted in early reactions to the clip.
Inside the Stagecoach Ballroom, a quartet of Texas country singers — Wade Bowen, Mike Ryan, Casey Donahew and Tanner Usrey — appear among the crowd, lending the clip a hometown music‑scene feel. The video also recruits several high‑profile rodeo and western personalities: world champion calf ropers Shad Mayfield and Tyson Durfey, PBR world champion and NFR bullrider JB Mauney, and long‑haired cowboy personality Dale Brisby, who’s known for turning rodeo culture into viral comedy moments.
Shea Fisher Durfey, an Australian native and the wife of Tyson Durfey who has moved to Texas to pursue a country music career, is also featured, along with Leighton Berry among the cowboy contingent. Their inclusion reinforces the video’s blend of authentic Texas nightlife, rodeo pageantry and industry crossovers that have helped the song find a wide audience.
Filmed at the storied Stagecoach Ballroom — an iconic Fort Worth dance hall that has long been a gathering place for country music and honky‑tonk acts — the video underscores Langley’s growing profile and the collaborative muscle behind “Choosin’ Texas.” With Lambert’s songwriting and production support, Grimes’ screen presence and a roster of regional stars and rodeo champions, the clip functions as both a narrative extension of the song and a showcase of contemporary Texas country culture.