A few weeks after racking up at the ACM Awards and appearing at the inaugural Sand in My Boots festival, rising Alabama country star Ella Langley still has a lot going on: She dropped out of a Thursday festival appearance, she’s teasing a new song coming Friday and also it turns out she’s afraid of whales.

Langley, a native of Hope Hull, Ala., has been riding high on the success of her 2024 album “Hungover” and her smash duet with fellow Alabamian Riley Green, “You Look Like You Love Me.”

The new music likely will be the news of most interest to fans. Earlier this week, Langley shared a substantial snippet of a new song on social media. While it’s different musically from “You Look Like You Love Me,” it’s another tale of love at first sight: “All of my friends can’t quit talking about you/ They’ve never been like this before/ The way that you turn every head that’s around you/ the second you walk through the door.”

The chorus: “I’ve never met anyone like you/ Darlin you’re one in a million/ God couldn’t do it again if he tried to/ I never met anyone, never met anyone like you.”

She followed that up with a post saying that “Never Met Anyone Like You” was written with Hardy and Jordan Schmidt, a songwriter and producer whose hits include “Watermelon Moonshine” with Lainey Wilson. Langley’s post said that the song will be released Friday, June 27.

That’s the good news. Organizers of the Hoofbeat country festival in Wisconsin announced Tuesday that “due to unforeseen circumstances,” Langley couldn’t perform Thursday as planned. Organizers revealed no information about the circumstances but said that Joe Nichols would fill her performance slot.

Langley is scheduled to appear Friday in Sioux City, Iowa. After that, she’s part of the lineup at a Morgan Wallen show Saturday in Madison, Wisconsin.

The latest, and weirdest, news came up in a new interview Langley did with the syndicated radio show “Taste of Country Nights.”

According to website Taste of Country, Langley said that she was “So afraid of whales in the ocean,” adding that “They’re big and they might eat me and I don’t like it.”

It’s not the first time Langley has mentioned her phobia. All we can say is, it didn’t seem to be an issue when she was on the Sand in My Boots main stage in May. The memories she shared on that occasion were more about attending past versions of the Hangout Music Festival than about swimming in the Gulf.