Country music superstar Lainey Wilson is about to check off another bucket list moment: performing at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. This Thursday, Wilson joins a litany of musicians across multiple genres who will perform for America live on NBC from 34th Street in New York City.

"Your girl's from Louisiana," Wilson, 33, tells USA TODAY on a video call from her Manhattan hotel. "So I'm definitely not used to the frigid air, but it's going to be great."

Wilson will be bundled up with hand and toe warmers as she performs, but unlike other artists, the Grammy winner isn't assigned to a float. That means she will not have to brave the elements for the entire parade route, which stretches 2.5 miles between the Upper West Side and Macy's midtown location.

"I won't be having a bunch of this right here," she explains while mimicking the "pageant wave." Wilson jokes that she doesn't "really have a hard job at all" as she'll sing "two of my favorite songs I've ever written" and is then done for the day.

While some parade performers stay in New York for Thanksgiving dinner, Wilson and her team will fly back to Nashville right after for a planned "Friendsgiving." Other than the early morning and travel, Wilson doesn't have too much to worry about there either.

"All I gotta do is show up because when I get there, everybody's going to be there," she says. "Everybody's bringing a different dish. So I got out without a scratch."

Wilson's favorite side is stuffing. She laughs at the notion of her cooking a turkey, deadpanning that she could "mess up a hot pocket."

The platinum-selling artist does know how to cook up a hit record. Wilson's single "Somewhere Over Laredo" just cracked the top 10 on the Billboard Hot Country songs list. It's Wilson's ninth song to reach the top 10, tying her with Maren Morris for third among solo women artists. Only Taylor Swift (17) and Carrie Underwood (10) have more.

"Moments like this kind of remind me that we're here and we ain't going anywhere," Wilson says of the accomplishment. "And that's a good feeling, because I've been at this a long time. I wrote my first song at 9 years old and started playing guitar at 11.

"I feel like the last few years, I'm really starting to realize that, 'OK, you are a part of this genre,'" she continues. "I never wanted to be a flash in the pan. And I will say that, I feel like I might not be."

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Lainey Wilson will perform on Thanksgiving, but she's not cooking

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