Ella Langley Reveals She and Riley Green Thought They Might Cause 'Some Marriages, Maybe Some Divorces' with Viral Duet

Langley and Green won the 2024 CMA Award for musical event of the year with "You Look Like You Love Me"

Before releasing "You Look Like You Love Me," Ella Langley and Riley Green had a feeling the song would stir the pot.

Either way, their efforts paid off at the 2024 CMA Awards on Wednesday, Nov. 20, when Langley, 25, and Green, 36, won for musical event of the year. Speaking to reporters after their win, the duo opened up about the reaction to the viral song.

Langley, 25, now has heard multiple fan stories about the song. "When we wrote the song, we were laughing thinking this might cause some marriages, maybe some divorces, and definitely some children. I like it," she explained.

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Speaking to the song's rapid success, Green said it happened "as soon as it came out."

"I think one of the first times we played it, you open your phone the next day and you couldn't get away from it," he said. "It all kind of makes sense. The song's just a huge hit and people really latched onto it from the first time it came out."

Speaking to PEOPLE after their win, the duo opened up about how "wild" it was that they beat "some really good people."

"This song happened so organically," Langley said. "Riley being on the song and writing his verse is the same thing. Everything happened the way it was supposed to and I'm just really grateful to be here tonight."

In a separate interview before the show, Langley said she and Green had known each other for "a long, long time." When he asked her to go on tour with him, she had just cut "You Look Like You Love Me."

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"I was like, 'Dang, imagine if Riley were to write a second verse of this song. Just him talking. It' a different thing and stuff that we both grew up on. It's just been such a cool experience to experience all of this with somebody."

In September, Langley told Taste of Country that Green was "probably the first famous person I ever met."

She continued, "He was playing all the same bars I went to, and I played the same bars as him. It's cool to see Alabama people winning!"

"You Look Like You Love Me" sparked rumors of a romance between the pair, but Langley assured they're just "good friends."