Ella Langley was booed by a stadium crowd in Knoxville, Tennessee, when she began performing “Choosin’ Texas”, her hit collaboration with Luke Dick, Joybeth Taylor and Miranda Lambert. The reaction was not directed at Langley personally, but reflected local pride ahead of a college football game between the Tennessee Volunteers and Texas Longhorns.

The song has reportedly been a major success since October, reaching No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and surpassing Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” in length of time at the top. A video of the incident gained nearly 200,000 TikTok views, while online commenters debated the rivalry and suggested Langley consider Tennessee’s football schedule before performing the song in Knoxville again.