It’s not fun when I really like an artist, and s/he releases a song that I don’t like at all, for example, “We Should Be Friends,” Miranda Lambert’s newest. I love Country music–and I really like Miranda Lambert, so I’m sorry that this current single from her album, “Weight of These Wings,” a two-disc set that debuted last week at #1 on Billboard’s Country charts, does not appeal to me at all.
“We Should Be Friends” also ranks number one in new airplay on Country Radio with continued exposure likely, heading into 2017, when she kicks off her newest tour, beginning January 26th.
“We Should Be Friends” is twangy and sort of downscale, a big disconnect from the sex-pot who sang “Little Red Wagon.”
Lambert’s a gorgeous, rich, award winning Country music star surrounded by agents, managers, and staff. It’s a stretch to think of her as just hanging with a roommate or friend like this:
If your mind’s as cluttered as your kitchen sink
If your heart’s as empty as your diesel tank
If all your white t-shirts have stains
….Well then, we should be friends
and
if you dream all day and drink all night
…than we should be friends
The lyrics are clever
I don’t know you well but I know that look
And I can judge the cover ’cause I read the book
..it’s the delivery that I don’t get.
Lambert’s big into honesty. About “The Weight Of These Wings” she explains that “Every record I’ve ever made has been a reflection of where I am then in my life, however old I am. And I’ve never held back at all. But this time, with what I happened to be going through in my life, being honest was never really a choice. Everybody knew anyway. So I just said, “I’m gonna journal it and – good days and bad days- use it for my art.”
Lambert’s ex-husband, Country Superstar Blake Shelton, a long-time judge on NBC’s hit TV show “The Voice,” is, along with his girlfriend, Gwen Stefani, routinely covered by the tabloids.
He’s into truth, too. His new album is called “To Be Honest.”