In support of the Aug. 11 release of her debut album, The Project, Lindsay Ell took her talents to NYC for an appearance on the Today show (Aug. 9).

Lindsay treated fans to a performance of the album’s lead single, “Waiting on You,” a song she co-penned with Adam Hambrick and Andrew DeRoberts.

“‘Waiting on You’ is the first song that started this whole project because when we originally started talking with Kristian Bush to produce my whole record, ‘Waiting on You’ was the song that all of us were like, ‘You know what, there’s something to this,’” said Lindsay to Nash Country Daily. “As an artist, I came to town really trying to find what I wanted to sound like. I think it took me years of doing the wrong thing to finally find the right thing. ‘Waiting on You’ is the first song where I could honestly by like, ‘That’s me.’ If I was given three minutes with somebody whose never heard my name before, to really hear what’s going on in my heart and hear what I sound like, ‘Waiting on You’ would be it.”

Watch Lindsay’s performance below.