Ella Langley’s Global Heartbreak: How a Small-Town Alabaman Became the Soundtrack to Modern Melancholy
Ella Langley, Alabama’s new export to the restless algorithmic void, has left the barnyard of Muscle Shoals and landed—via Spotify’s tastefully invasive autoplay—in earbuds from Jakarta to Johannesburg. To the uninitiated, she’s merely another Nashville-adjacent soprano with a steel-guitar fetish and a TikTok-ready pout. To the geopolitically inclined, however, Langley is a soft-power munition, proof…