Getting Real with Lanie Gardner: Every Song’s a Snapshot — Faded Polaroids Out Sept 5

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Music Interviews, Music, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 2 September 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Lanie Gardner doesn’t just write songs—she writes pages of her life and turns them into music. After her viral cover of “Dreams” (63M+ and counting), she’s gone from small-town Carolina to the Grand Ole Opry stage, proving that authenticity still wins in a world full of noise.

Her upcoming album Faded Polaroids (Sept 5th) is more than just a follow-up to her debut EP—it’s a songwriter’s diary you’re invited to read. It’s messy, it’s vulnerable, it’s real life caught on tape.

Along the way, she’s collaborated with Thomas Rhett (What Could Go Right), Warren Zeiders (Loving in Letting Go), and even had Mick Fleetwood play drums on High Divin’. She’s made her Stagecoach debut, joined tours with Corey Kent and Gavin Adcock, and her songs have landed in Twisters and Queen of the Ring.

At just 25, she’s already living out prayers she used to whisper—singing Cry (a song she wrote at 16) on tour with Jelly Roll, making her Opry debut, and becoming one of country music’s most talked-about new voices.

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0:00.0	This is an IHeart podcast. she's a queen of talking hey what's on your mind
0:21.8	she's getting really not afraid to feel
0:24.4	Take a soul to soul just let her flow
0:26.7	No one can do it quite like Caroline
0:30.3	It's time for Caroline
0:33.3	Okay I'm so happy to be heard Lainey Gardner
0:36.9	You're so cool You're so cool I love that you came in Fresh off eating a chop bowl I mean you're like I'm sorry I'm just downing some chop salad I need some floss Got you hooked up Did you get it out? I did I got it out Good well you know my dad's a dentist And he says flossing your teeth Is more important than brushing Because all that stuff gets in in there and it's rots. Yeah. Yeah. I have one of the water picks. Do you have to use physical floss if you have like the little water pick? I don't know about a water pick. Does it work? I guess it's like just forces water through your teeth. That is just so much faster and it feels cleaner to me than like... The floss. Yeah, because I feel I'm so like, um, like disgusted by what comes out. That comes out. I'm like flossing and then I'm like wiping it on like a tissue so I don't have to like put it back in my mouth of floss another tooth. It's really annoying. No, I know. I know. Yeah. It's a thing. I got to remember to talk into this. I'm like, I don't know, Lainey. So I started crying with you again. I've been crying in all my interviews lately because my daughter just went to kindergarten. And it's like I'm not I said I'm not emotionally stable
1:45.4	and you said good we'll have things to talk about yeah but you are emotionally stable oh
1:49.3	no no no I'm I just I don't know I think I block it out sometimes whenever I have to work
1:59.4	and then I go home and then my boyfriend is like my support
2:05.0	animal.
2:05.8	But your boyfriend is very cute and also a singer.
2:08.0	Thank you.
2:08.4	I was checking him out.
2:09.1	I was like, dang, y'all are a little haughty couple.
2:11.0	Well, he sings.
2:12.1	He won't.
2:13.7	He won't sing for anybody else.
2:15.0	Is he just like famous on Instagram?
2:16.5	Mm-hmm.
2:17.1	How did he just become famous on Instagram? Mm-hmm. How did he just become famous on Instagram?
2:19.4	Well, he's cute.
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