Lainey Wilson‘s “Somewhere Over Laredo” video is out! The song, already in the Top 25, is from her forthcoming Whirlwind Deluxe album, out on August 22. The video is a first for Wilson, who is rightfully proud of the cinematic new video.

“I had the time of my life doing it,” Wilson tells People. “I was doing all kinds of things, pretending to be falling through the air, the sky, and all of these crazy things that I had never done before.”

“Somewhere Over Laredo” is a nod to Judy Garland’s “Somewhere Over the Rainbow,” an idea Wilson tapped into when creating the video for “Somewhere Over Laredo.”

“I had not had the opportunity to make a video that I felt like deserved that kind of trippiness,” Wilson admits. “When you think about The Wizard of Oz, and you think about the ‘Yellow Brick Road,’ of course, you think of ‘Somewhere Over the Rainbow,’ and this [song] is an interpolation of that. It’s a way for us to tip our hat to that and acknowledge how timeless of a song that is. It was important for me to kind of draw the parallel between the songs.”

Wilson penned “Somewhere Over Laredo” with Trannie Anderson, Dallas Wilson and Andy Albert. Wilson has already written plenty of hits, but knew right away that “Somwhere Over Laredo” was special, and career-defining.

“Honestly, I am proud of the song, and I felt like it was special the moment we finished it,” Wilson reveals. “I felt it in my spirit that the songwriter was going to take people to a nostalgic place, and I’m so glad that my gut was right because it seems like people are latching onto it and connecting to it. It’s crazy to see the reaction.”

The “Somewhere Over Laredo” video shows Wilson doing one of her favorite pastimes, which is riding a horse. But she also got to bring another personal element into the video: her own dog!

“That’s my dog,” Wilson shares. “Her name is Hippie Mae Wilson, and I’m so proud. My little French Bulldog. I’m a proud dog mom. She can do no wrong. When it came to the storyline, it was [the filmmakers.] Having Hippie involved came from me.”

“Somewhere Over Laredo” is the closing of one chapter for Wilson, who is working on her next album, after the massive success of Whirlwind.

“Writing and recording that record and even starting to play those songs off of that record at my shows, it was still during a time of my life I felt was constantly changing daily,” Wilson explains. “I still feel like my life is constantly changing, but I’ve got my feet under me a little bit more. I’ve come up for air. And once I wrote these songs for the deluxe that’s coming out, I felt like these songs right here were coming from a place that were on the tail-end of Whirlwind.

“I know we’re going to have different seasons in our life, and the dust can be kicked back up, but I was finally starting to get my boots under me,” she adds. “‘Somewhere Over Laredo’ just felt that way. It had a calmness to it. Even though it is talking about lost love, it still had this bittersweet, nostalgic feeling to it that I felt like I could tap into once the dust finally started to settle a little bit.”

Wilson just announced that her Tough as Nails exhibit will open at the Country Music Hall of Fame next month. Find “Somewhere Over Laredo” and all of Wilson’s music, and pre-order Whirlwind Deluxe, at LaineyWilson.com.