Riley Green and Ella Langley have a second hit on their hands. After their first "You Look Like You Love Me" duet hit No. 1, the duo is back, this time with "Don't Mind If I Do." The song is the title track of Green's latest album, although he now admits he never intended to release the love song with Langley.
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Green wrote "Don't Mind If I Do," while Langley was serving as the opening act on his 2024 Ain't My Last Rodeo Tour.
"'Don't Mind If I Do' was a song I'd written on that tour," Green tells his record label. "I think I got her to come in the day I wrote it, and just kind of hummed to see what key I needed to write it in, 'cause I wrote it as a duet. And when I was in the studio recording it, I just called her to come by to put a vocal on it, so I could play it for whoever I was gonna pitch it to, as far as the female. And she just crushed it."
Fortunately for Langley, Green realized as soon as she sang the song that "Don't Mind If I Do" was meant for her to sing.
"I remember sitting there, and she was like in a sweatsuit," he recalls. "She came by the house and sang it, and it was just, I couldn't imagine anybody doing it better than she did. So, it was cool for her to be on the song. Also having her out with all the success on the other song, and also lyrically, it kind of feels like the song after 'You Look Like You Love Me.' So it's kind of cool to have that accidentally work out."
The Relationship Between Riley Green and Ella Langley
Rumors of Green and Langley dating have plagued them since they first released "You Look Like You Love Me." Unfortunately, they appear to be unfounded, even though Green understands why fans want to see them together.
"I'm rumored to have dated a lot of people. I kind of understand that," Green says. "People always long for that Tim and Faith, Johnny and June, George and Tammy thing. And so, me and Ella have two giant songs together. I think fans want to believe that what you sing about is real. Follow those lyrics and think there's a story there. I can comprehend people that are thinking there's something going on. For me, I'm just glad that we're having success together. I'm so proud of her."
