Miranda Lambert Says She Supports Bro-Country
Well so much for entertaining the idea in your country music brain that if Miranda Lambert had her way, she’d go all “Gunpowder & Lead” on the purveyors of Bro-Country for their sexist and objectifying behavior if she wasn’t such a classy chic who would rather let her music do the talking.
While many male artists, including Joe Nichols recently, and even some of the bros themselves like Jake Owen have come out saying they’d prefer a little more substance with modern country music, in a recent interview with Billboard, Miranda removed any and all doubt about how she feels about Bro-Country, at least in what she’s willing to portray to the public.
I don’t know where “bro country” came from or what it really means, but a lot of those guys are my buddies and I support their music. Within country there are lots of styles: stone-cold country, like Brandy Clark, and there’s Florida Georgia Line with what they do, which is completely different and bringing a whole new audience. There’s room for everyone.
Interesting that Miranda pulled the same move of playing dumb about what Bro-Country actually means—a tactic deployed by many of the bros themselves when the issue is brought up. It’s not necessarily that they actually know what the term means and are playing dumb as much as it might be a commentary on self-awareness. But either way, to hear country music’s current top-ranking femme fatale and one of the few women who can lay inroads into the male dominance in mainstream country music make nice with many of the people at the heart of the problem is disconcerting to say the least. If country music is in the midst of a sex war, the women just waived the white flag. It was a much better world when Miranda was ducking and weaving around the issue, and left her true thoughts open for interpretation.
But possibly most disturbing about Miranda’s statement is the misguided sentiment behind Bro-Country “bringing a whole new audience” and that there’s “room for everyone.”
First off, Bro-Country did bring a new audience to country, but it was in the form of many young interloping listeners who left with the tide once Bro-Country went on the wane. That’s the reason country right now is struggling with the key demographic of 18 to 34-year-olds to the tune of posting the lowest ratings with younger listeners last month since December of 2012. Even worse, as the Bro-Country tide washes out, a lot of the older listeners who left the format because of Bro-Country are not returning to fill the void. Bro-Country left an open wound behind in the heart of country.
In other words, there isn’t “room for everyone” in country music. Instead it has become a cultural flash point more than ever that is disenfranchising both sides of the cultural divide.
Country songs that include lines like “stick the pink umbrella in your drink,” songs that include rapping, hip-hop, and EDM influences are in no way inclusive of mainstay country listeners, they’re divisive. You now have families turning their dials away from country stations and listening to pop because it’s a more family-friendly and inspired environment.
Trying to be all things to all people can run the risk of alienating everyone, and that’s the precipice mainstream country finds itself perched beside in the aftermath of the Bro-Country onslaught. Will country music chart a more sustainable path in the future, or will it continue to chase trends? And will the genre’s top artists take some leadership, or will they continue to play it safe instead of speaking their minds at the risk or ruffling a few feathers?
martha
April 15, 2015 @ 10:42 am
She has to say she likes bro country. After all, her husband is a part of it.
Albert
April 15, 2015 @ 10:20 pm
END OF DISCUSSION … what the hell else is she gonna say ??
Justin
April 17, 2015 @ 1:57 am
Agreed. What else is she supposed to say? I would expect a wife to stand up for her husband and vice versa.
Golddust
April 15, 2015 @ 10:42 am
Not surprised. After all, her latest single *is* “Little Red Wagon” and before that “Something Bad’, both of which truly are bad. I used to like Miranda’s stuff and I sure hope she comes back around, but … not surprised at her comments a bit.
Amanda
April 15, 2015 @ 10:43 am
I think she says things because she doesn’t want the backlash of calling her a hypocrite. Miranda is Country. Her old stuff is pure traditional/red dirt.
I think after the bro-country phase ends Miranda will still be around (if she stops with the LRW/Something Bad shit) and she will revert back to the old Miranda.
Her song like Roots and Wings/Hard Staying sober ect.. still tells me that Miranda is in there..but to be played on the radio and to keep up with the mainstream world..yes she did sell out with Platinum. Miranda is friends with alot of the bro-country people, yet she is also friends with alot of the Texas independent artists.
Trigger
April 15, 2015 @ 11:04 am
Shame that she has to release “Roots and Wings” through a truck commercial, and “Little Red Wagon” as a single to radio.
Hawkeye
April 15, 2015 @ 6:10 pm
A-freaking-men
gtrman86
April 15, 2015 @ 10:46 am
This “NEW” audience are not Country music fans, they are fad chasers that only listen to what is “popular” at the time, afraid to make their own decisions on personal taste because they are so shallow they feel they need to fit in with the insecure shit heads that jump on these stupid bandwagons. I hope these losers leave with the Bro-fad and stop calling themselves Country fans.
Waymore2
April 15, 2015 @ 2:23 pm
Amen!!!
Sam
April 15, 2015 @ 10:46 am
Miranda is the one artist I will give a pass too in regards to bro-country/pop country songs. I think she is better than her most recent material and I pray her next album she will go back to crazy-ex Miranda, meaning I wish she would go back to her own song writing/guitar picking songs. A few weeks ago I saw Miranda do an acoustic cover of Merle Haggard ‘The Way I am’ she killed it. That is Miranda at her best. I wish she knew that.
ActivePuck
April 15, 2015 @ 10:48 am
“Trying to be all things to all people can run the risk of alienating everyone, and that”™s the precipice mainstream country finds itself perched beside in the aftermath of the Bro-Country onslaught.”
DING DING DING DING
Quote of the year.
Seriously, this sums up radio country all too damned well.
Angela
April 15, 2015 @ 10:55 am
I feel like she had to say this. If she said something bad about bro-country she IS saying something bad about her friends and that idiot husband of hers and that would not look good for her.
I really hope her winning the Grammy for Platinum which in my opinion is not her best changes her sound anymore that she has. I was really hoping she went back to the old vintage Miranda and that she released Platinum just to stay relevant with country radio.
Trigger
April 15, 2015 @ 11:08 am
She could have avoided the question, which I’ve seen her do on this very topic before. I agree she’s in a very tough position that I don’t envy at all. If she said Bro-Country was terrible, it would have started WW3 in country. I would prefer she just say what she truly believes, whatever that is. I have a little trouble believing she’s a Florida Georgia Line fan.
Ryan
April 15, 2015 @ 7:31 pm
Trouble believing she likes Florida Georgia Line? Seriously? In my opinion, Miranda is one of the worst offenders in today’s country music. I cringe every time I hear her annoying ass voice. She tries to play both sides and it’s obvious she’s sold everything she believes in to stay relevant. I never much cared for her songs, even the early ones. She’s just as much into the arena rock shit as any other talentless hack on music row. I dot know why people keep hanging onto the hope that she’s some savior that’s going to change the direction on country radio. She’s only along for the ride and fame and will continue to do whatever she has to to remain a topic of conversation.
Trigger
April 15, 2015 @ 8:30 pm
I hope it didn’t come across that I think Miranda is going to be a savior of country. I don’t remember every saying or alluding to that. I thought this article pretty much portrayed the exact opposite of that. And just because you think her music sucks and she’s a sellout still doesn’t mean she’d be inclined to hang out with a couple of douchebags who are much younger than her and probably have little in common with her. These are still human biengs whose tastes and interests have to align. Maybe they are buddies, I really have no idea.
Ryan
April 16, 2015 @ 7:13 am
Didn’t mean to imply you were saying she would save country radio. I just often hear or read people saying that she’s fighting the good fight and is the last one on country radio that is worth a damn. Her last couple of albums are terrible. People point to her Pistol Annie’s project, but that was just it, a project. If that was the music she really enjoyed, she would keep making it. She wouldn’t be recording trash like Little Red Wagon. I don’t know why, but that song just pushes me over the edge. It makes me want to destroy any speaker that is blaring that crap. Talk about an ear raping.
JC Eldredge
April 15, 2015 @ 10:55 am
Another example of her “dumbing down” her career to fit in with the subpar offerings of today’s country music. Instead of standing out and being better, she wants to be the female counterpart of the bro movement so she can play it safe and stay on top.
Angela
April 15, 2015 @ 11:00 am
Thank you!
Miranda is better than this Platinum era. Yes there are some standout tracks, but those get overlooked by her horrible single choices.
I don’t understand why she doesn’t stick to what she is good at and be the Miranda that we all know is still there and stick out from the crowd instead of becoming apart of it to stay relevant. She is hurting only herself with this.
Diana
April 19, 2015 @ 8:46 pm
I think she is desperate to go main stream and become more popular. The problem is that she just does not have that in her. Her platinum album sucked, and the one before that was OK. Her first 3 were good, but she is definitely going down heel.
Kale
April 15, 2015 @ 10:59 am
She doesn’t really feel that way. She’s married to the guy who made the old farts comment, and she just doesn’t want to wage war with her own husband.
Jackalope
April 15, 2015 @ 11:01 am
Women didn’t wave a white flat. Miranda did. This is the country music equivalent of a woman saying she doesn’t mind being cat-called. It happens, and every other woman who hates it groans and silently begs that people ignore the lone dissent as opposed to clinging to it like it’s a lifeline to continue sexist behavior. One woman doesn’t speak for all female artists, she speaks for herself.
Trigger
April 15, 2015 @ 11:13 am
I understand that Miranda doesn’t speak for all female artists, but with Carrie Underwood on mom duty, and Taylor Swift gone to pop, Miranda was the one woman who has the prominence to show some leadership for women in country. Hopefully this dynamic will change for country music in the future, and there’s undoubted many women who are doing their best to lead country music in a positive direction, but unfortunately they don’t have the type of reach Miranda does.
Enjoy Every Sandwich
April 15, 2015 @ 1:15 pm
That’s what frosts me about this. Lambert needs to understand that just because bro-country doesn’t crowd her off of country radio, other great female artists who aren’t on the high perch with her are getting stiffed in favor of bro-country. Those artists and country music listeners deserve better.
Country radio airtime is a finite resource. Why should the bros be at the head of the line?
Applejack
April 15, 2015 @ 7:23 pm
“Country radio airtime is a finite resource. Why should the bros be at the head of the line?”
Yeah, the thing that irritates me when people say things like “Hey, it’s all good, there’s room for everyone in country music,” is that it glosses over the fact that country radio still defines what modern country music is for most people, and clearly there isn’t room for everybody there. For example, among the styles of music currently being excluded from country radio is basically anything that sounds, you know, country.
Melissa
April 15, 2015 @ 11:04 am
What I’m getting from this is she doesn’t want to alienate her (and Blake’s) pals, but doesn’t necessarily like their music.
“a lot of those guys are my buddies and I Âsupport their music. Within Âcountry there are lots of styles: stone-cold country, like Brandy Clark, and there”™s Florida Georgia Line with what they do, which is completely different and bringing a whole new audience.”
Translation: “I like Brandy Clark’s music, and I’m gonna try to say something nice about FGL without actually saying I like their music.”
Trigger
April 15, 2015 @ 11:18 am
I don’t expect Miranda Lambert to come out and flame throw Bro-Country, because obviously that puts her in a really tough position. I just think what she said here put many of her fans in a tough position. There is something to be said for class, but I think the more classy move in this case may have been to avoid the question, or simply said, “I don’t see the value in criticizing other artists” or something. I don’t think Miranda Lambert, or even Blake Shelton are true “buddies” with Florida Georgia Line.
Applejack
April 15, 2015 @ 7:08 pm
Translation: “I like Brandy Clark”™s music, and I”™m gonna try to say something nice about FGL without actually saying I like their music.”
You might be right, and I definitely think Miranda phrased her response in a way that allows for that interpretation, but I’m gonna go a step farther than most of the commenters here and say that I think Miranda actually does like Florida Georgia Line and other bro-country acts.
Last year, I remember watching the vacuous, lowest common denominator-courting CMT Music Awards (the show that opened with ZZ Top, and Luke Bryan, FGL, and Jason Derulo twerking in unison to “Talk Dirty To Me,”) and noticing in the crowd shots that Miranda was bopping and grooving along to all the bro-country songs and sincerely mouthing the lyrics like a fangirl, even when she didn’t appear to know the camera was on her. I think I even left a comment on the SCM at the time saying something like, “Come on Miranda, don’t tell me you actually think these are good songs!”
Buckarooguitar.com
April 15, 2015 @ 11:19 am
I agree with Trigger in the “room for everyone” comment is completely false and a disgrace to country music.
I’m not trying to sound like some hard core traditionalist in that every song needs to sound like something Ernest Tubb cut, but country music, like blues, jazz, and classical are steeped in tradition and customs.
The bottom line is that there is a certain way you do things in country music… If you don’t like it then do what Taylor Swift did and move to pop.
There’s plenty of good artist today that stay within the framework of country music but bring a fresh face and sound (Sturgill, Ray Scott, Jamey Johnson to name a few).
That’s my two sense.
-Scott
Blackwater
April 15, 2015 @ 11:36 am
Sorry, there is not room for all of it, that’s the problem.
Kale
April 15, 2015 @ 11:38 am
The bros themselves don’t even like Bro-Country. They just know the formula for getting commercial appeal and capitalize on it, for whatever reason people find it appealing. And then of course there’s Cole Swindell who just had good connections and doesn’t care about anything, he can just sing anything and be successful with no worries about the genre he didn’t work hard to make it in. FGL went to Belmont University, so they can’t be quite as stupid as they act. They reason they do what they do and are so successful at it is because they were smart enough to figure out what sounds and lyrics create the greatest positive effect on the dopamine levels of pop country fans. They didn’t just start singing party songs because they felt like it, they planned it out. Doesn’t even mean they enjoy doing it, they just need that party boy image. Sam Hunt is really any kind of star but country, he just knew he couldn’t make it if he was classified as such, so he called himself country so he could dominate the dissociative identity genre and be more successful than he could anywhere else. Ya’ll may think I’m on crack, particularly for the FGL part, but it really does make sense. It says a lot about the state of country that the perpetrators themselves don’t even like it. It’s a wonder anybody likes it at all, and I have no explanation for why the industry would WANTthat to be the dominant format. Scott Borchetta doesn’t seem like the tailgate party type. Maybe he is just doing it so his friend Dallas Davidson can have a job, I don’t know.
Fuzzy TwoShirts
April 15, 2015 @ 11:47 am
The FGL guys (I call them thing one and thing two) seem like nice guys and it’s hard to hate them as people. Also, they’re twenty-something. It makes sense that they sing dumb party songs. It’s Aldean and Bryan who are the problem, because they’re nearly forty, and they have horrible personalities. Cole Swindell and Chase Rice actually are clueless, and Chase has an awful personality to boot. Sam Hunt has, during his live shows, performed obscure classic tunes, and done it well. He obviously knows, appreciates, and can sing, quality country music; which is why his pop-ness is perplexing. Dallas Davidson is a total sad piece of excrement, who is sexist, homophobic, and horrendously offensive, even if he did write one good song, “If Heaven Wasn’t So Far Away.” Scott Borchetta obviously is just a money maker, I don’t believe he’s out to attack country music, he’s just a business man with no real sense for the arts.
Kale
April 15, 2015 @ 12:15 pm
I hate to admit it, but I saw FGL perform once (I wasn’t there for them), and as stupid and un-country as their music was, I just couldn’t hate them. I hate what they do for sure, but they’re not bad people. Jason Aldean on the other hand… I almost lost it when I recently heard on the radio something about “the newly married Jason Aldean.” Really? He was married to his former wife for many years. All he ever did was try supper hard to make it big while she worked multiple jobs to support their kids, and he shows her his appreciation by cheating on her with some young American Idol washout. Now he’s marrying this chick and he gets to be a “happily married man?” THIS is what country “leadership” looks like. Off topic, but why would they want interlopers like the hair metal guy Scott Borchetta and Bobby Bones to be bigwigs in country? Was it because they felt like their pop experience would be good to keep country “hip,” and even though they don’t really care about the genre, it’s a huge opportunity to make money?
Fuzzy TwoShirts
April 15, 2015 @ 12:25 pm
Jason Aldean is a disgrace, period, or possibly exclamation mark. As much as we here at SCM hate to admit it, Sam Hunt nothwithstanding, these clowns wouldn’t fit in in the other genres. They’re not rock, they’re not really pop, they’re not country, but this is the only genre that A: accepted them and B: they actually fit in. Cole Swindell isn’t a country artist, but he’s not anything else, really either. Three things are to blame. A: Billy Ray’s daughter being Hannah on Disney and being all pop, B: Taylor doing the same thing on the country charts to prove that Country Music would accept these teen pop acts. (even if her early stuff was halfway country.) and C: the predominant Country listening demographic jumping ship. Even in 2010 country radio was still country, but a lot of the people that would later become known as “Old Farts” had already left Country Radio. That let people like Blake Shelton into the gap, which drove more real listeners away, which in turn let Luke and Cole in, which drove more real listeners away in a vicious cycle. Every genre has its phases, Jazz evolved with each generation of listeners, so should Country, but Country music is such a conservative minded genre that audiences jump ship over change. There are people who don’t think Glen Campbell was country, see every time country music changed, it drove away listeners, and eventually it imploded.
Eric
April 16, 2015 @ 12:02 am
“Billy Ray”™s daughter being Hannah on Disney and being all pop”
I fail to see how this has anything to do with country music. Miley is not Billy Ray. She has openly criticized the entire country genre in the past and did not want anything to do with it, except for releasing “The Climb” to country radio.
“Taylor doing the same thing on the country charts to prove that Country Music would accept these teen pop acts.”
And yet no other teen pop act attained top-tier fame in country music after her. This shows that Taylor’s appeal was unique, not part of some broader pop trend in country music. Some of her early material was more traditional than much of even pre-bro country.
“That let people like Blake Shelton into the gap, which drove more real listeners away”
Actually, Blake’s early material (up through 2011 or even 2012) was pretty solidly in the mold of pre-bro mainstream country. He only took on the bro style in 2013, after Luke Bryan had already gained massive fame with his “Tailgates and Tanlines” album, possibly the first major bro-country album.
Fuzzy TwoShirts
April 16, 2015 @ 6:11 am
Eric: You’re spot on, really, so let me clarify. Miley was Billy Ray’s daughter, he was a “country singer.” To the unenlightened masses who normally don’t like country music, she was a teen pop act, and she must have had ties to a usually unpopular genre. Taylor Swift, also a teenager, came along in country music. A lot of people probably interpreted that as “hey, teen pop acts can make it here in country too!” Even if Taylor Swift’s early stuff was half-way country, I think that teen pop image that came with her was bad for country music’s identity. and Yes, Blake’s early stuff, hillbilly bone notwithstanding, was halfway decent. Ironically two of the worst bro-ffenders (Luke and Jason) had some of the best early material. (amarillo sky and do i)
Jay
April 15, 2015 @ 12:00 pm
Brilliant idea i just had, if your a writer or producer and your first and last name start with the same letter, get the hell out! ugh R*ck Rubin you kill all my good rock bands, but i digress…
Fuzzy TwoShirts
April 15, 2015 @ 11:41 am
People are honestly surprised by this? Miranda Lambert is just as much a joke as the bros are. Angry revenge songs are her laundry-list the same way beer and trucks are to Luke and Cole. She too has too much absurd twang, as if that makes it country. The only reason, I believe, that she’s continually charting songs is because she too is coasting on Blake’s “the Voice” farce. “She’s his wife, I’ve got to listen to it!”
sir topemhat
April 15, 2015 @ 11:47 am
Her label probably told her to say she supports bro-country.
The Ghost of Waylon
April 15, 2015 @ 11:54 am
… And just who is she, again?
Ah, nevermind. I really didn’t want to know anyways.
It’s amazing what happens when you ignore people you know you’re not gonna like altogether: when they say or do something stupid you find yourself hard pressed to even remotely give a crap. And the world for you goes on just as happy as ever.
Michael
April 15, 2015 @ 12:21 pm
Miranda has the clout to get away with saying something anti-bro country. She should have done it. Comments like this do not sit well with her original fan base. She doesn’t need to be a blake Shelton sock puppet. This hurts her image a bit. She comes off as a industry hack here.
Cobra
April 15, 2015 @ 2:29 pm
Thing is though, at the end of the day, Miranda has to go home to it. Another artist can call someone out on their #$@# and some might take umbrage, but at the end of the day, they’re thoughts are their own.
And yes, Miranda’s thoughts may be her own, but her husband is also in the crowd we’d like her to call out. As much as we might disagree with her comments, it’s somewhat difficult to fault her faltering at the opportunity.
Though her latest album didn’t help matters, considering it was pretty mediocre, at best.
Michael
April 15, 2015 @ 2:55 pm
Maybe it would have woken him up.
Cobra
April 15, 2015 @ 3:08 pm
One would hope. Up through “Pure BS” I actually really liked his music. “Startin Fires” was a pretty decent album, though it had a couple of missteps on it. After that, he’s really gone downhill.
Michael
April 15, 2015 @ 3:56 pm
The Voice killed his music, he could give a shit abut his albums now, they will sell because he is a TV celeb. Red, Red, Red, Red.
Jen
April 15, 2015 @ 5:12 pm
Blake and Adam Levine (the weasel) make more money on the Voice than touring. I read a couple years ago that Adam was making $15 million per season and there is two seasons per year. He was on there before Blake I believe and Blake has this naturally great since of humor. So I’m assuming Blake is up there in the money now, too. (I will be corrected if I’m wrong) Even real country music people are terrified to be anything but PC. I liked Miranda back when she sang real country. Damn! Little Red Wagon!! Cut me some slack….who writes that stuff? Twenty year olds?
I absolutely hate bro-country music and the ring leaders. Crest White Luke Bryan gags me. Aldean is a hot head arrogant ass. I’m in my forties and I can’t tolerate this asinine crap. I think they need to have two kinds of genres on these award shows. Bro-Country and Real Country. Let’s see how that flies. JMO.
Dan H
April 15, 2015 @ 12:22 pm
Never liked Miranda or her music, and never thought she was country. Sure she might be more country music than some other artists nowadays, but that’s like saying she’s the best cowpie in a pasture. IMO she’s fake and doesn’t see anything wrong with country music nowadays.
Jen
April 15, 2015 @ 5:16 pm
With her winning all the awards and being the star girl, the name of the game is money. I liked her much more in the beginning when she was a little chunky and more real. She’s gone Hollywood, so to speak. Money does strange things to people;)
I don’t think there is room for everyone. It’s kicking out some really talented true country singers:;
Dan H
April 15, 2015 @ 6:33 pm
Couldn’t agree more Jen
JC Eldredge
April 15, 2015 @ 12:32 pm
Ok a second thought on this… Isn’t this essentially exactly what Maddie and Tae said when called out about Girl In A Country Song? They were being thrust into the spotlight as these Girl Power Game Changers and as soon as they were interviewed, they were all “Ohhh shucks, We actually LOVE FGL” meanwhile they are peddling their new single that screams the exact opposite. However when they said it, it was ok because they were new. I’m not bashing them or excusing Miranda, just pointing out that she isn’t the only one dodging the bro country bullet, but she will likely take way more heat for it.
Trigger
April 15, 2015 @ 1:54 pm
The differences would be 1) Maddie & Tae released a song that addressed the subject directly, while Miranda has released songs that arguably chase the Bro-Country trend in the female context (“Somethin’ Bad” etc.). 2) Maddie & Tae did say they liked those artists, but they also said that they thought a lot of country songs talked down to women and they wanted to represent something different. Yes, they were sort of talking out of both sides of their mouth, but they’re 18-year-old girls with absolutely no skins on the wall. Mirnada is one her way to becoming the most decorated country music female in history.
Also remember that Brian Kelley of Florida Georgia Line (the silent one) got his knickers in a bind when a Chicago outlet read the Maddie & Tae comments to him, so they must have been doing something right. I’m not trying to make out Maddie & Tae as some female saviors either, but I do think they showed a lot of guts for being so new and young. Miranda wilted at her opportunity.
Fuzzy TwoShirts
April 15, 2015 @ 2:02 pm
Triggerman: the Luke Bryan ads are back, but this time they don’t have a “report this ad” button. how do I get rid of them?
BrettS
April 15, 2015 @ 12:59 pm
Heard her new song the other week and my ears are still bleeding
Nick Brown
April 15, 2015 @ 2:41 pm
You know on the weekend my cousin and I were talking about the upcoming ACM awards. Now he said to me “I love listening to Rock, Heavy Metal and Country Music, when I turn on a country award show I do so to hear country music, not some white guy in a cowboy hat saying Yo Mamma like he grew up in Compton, it’s nothing more than a genre full of fake wanna bees that can’t make it in the genre they should be in, Country music is now full of Whiggers”.
As for Miranda, I thought she walked tall, but it looks like she’s learned how to crawl.
Michael
April 15, 2015 @ 2:58 pm
Instead of NWA it is HWA, Hicks with Attitude.
Topher
April 15, 2015 @ 2:41 pm
I wouldn’t really say this comment is Miranda supporting bro-country. She states she has friends in that scene and she supports their music. Of course she isn’t going to trash her friends music. But neither does she outright say she likes it.
It’s Miranda playing nice. At least she gives props to Brandy Clark, can’t say the same thing about FGL though.
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April 15, 2015 @ 3:10 pm
I TRIED TO TEL YALL FLORIDA GORGIA LINE WUZ A GOOD BAND A LONG TIME A GO. GLAD TO HERE MARANDA LIKES EM TO. GESS U CUD SAY GRATE MINDS THANK A LIKE. ROLE TIDE!
CAH
April 15, 2015 @ 3:24 pm
So faux country like bro country.
Can’t say I’m surprised.
I guess she is happy about her husband being on the Voice, since it keeps him out of the house at night.
Eric
April 15, 2015 @ 3:34 pm
What exactly are you trying to imply with your “out of the house” comment?
Truth No. 2
April 15, 2015 @ 3:40 pm
I presume it would be that Blake is insufferable to be around, and that if he is taping The Voice, he would be away from Miranda Lambert, which would be good for her.
CJ
April 15, 2015 @ 3:50 pm
If you’re hoping she’ll listen to these constructive reminders don’t bother, she’s too busy begging for votes for the ACMs over at Twitter to listen. Lol
Mike
April 15, 2015 @ 3:54 pm
It is sickening. But come on now, does this really surprise anyone? She is always going to say what her corporate masters tell her to say! If her label tells her to sing a song about having anal sex with roosters, then you can bet she will be belting out in her faux angst voice about being the best rooster banger of all time.
Red Skull aka Johann Schmitt
April 15, 2015 @ 3:56 pm
Fraulien Lambert knows who financially supports her, so of course she is going to sing the praises of Hydra’s musical operation. You are powerless against us!!!
HAIL HYDRA!!!
Rosalie
April 15, 2015 @ 4:39 pm
She has to play nice until the ACM Awards. She’s trying to win votes for Entertainer of the year, if you haven’t noticed on twitter already. (She got Beyonce to endorse her for Entertainer. ‘Nuff said.)
CountryKnight
April 15, 2015 @ 5:09 pm
Here is my shocked face!
I’m not surprised. She and the Pistol Annies appeared in “Boys Round Here.” And I doubt Blake Shelton got her participation by refusing to eat her delicious peanut butter pie. (It is really good.)
CountryKnight
April 15, 2015 @ 5:16 pm
I thought Miranda Lambert was this strong, independence, say-anything-I-please, singer. Turns out that was just an act. She can confront a drunk man in her song, but can not speak her mind.
RWP
April 15, 2015 @ 5:26 pm
I love reading all the excuses for her saying she HAS to say things like this.She could come out with a Justin Beiber EDM cover and her fans would excuse it.Her die-hards are about as loopy as Carrie Underwoods.
Rosalie
April 15, 2015 @ 6:07 pm
There is one part of my brain that tells me “Miranda wants to stay on mainstream country’s good side. She is so desperately lobbying for Entertainer at the ACMs that she needs to get as many votes as possible and does not want to alienate those who may voter.” However, the other part of my brain tells me that, if she did make such negative comments on bro-country, she would be praised as “the one true country artist, country values, best traditional singer, keeps to her roots, sticks to her opinions, not playing the game, country music rebel, doesn’t care about mainstream, blah blah blah.” Heck, they’d give her a medal of courage for that.
Lee
April 15, 2015 @ 6:01 pm
Wow God forbid Miranda didn’t answer that question like you all wanted. I guess she should just go around and go after everyone then. Brandy Clark was supporting Sam Hunt’s music in interviews around Grammy time. Guess we better go and complain about her. Makes no sense. I don’t like the bros but Miranda is one of the few that actually still puts “tradional country songs” on a album that ACTUALLY sells.
Again Men blaming “the girl” for what “the boys are doing”. Shocked face!
Truth No. 2
April 15, 2015 @ 7:39 pm
No one blamed Miranda for bro-country. Second, it doesn’t matter what traditional album cuts she has. The only thing that matters in the modern age are the singles, which haven’t been good since, “Automatic.”
CountryKnight
April 16, 2015 @ 6:48 am
My problem with Miranda stems from the fact that she styles herself as this super rebel, but she tows the line like any other mainstream artist. She is a (now misguided) rebel in her songs, not real life. But people cannot separate the two personas.
I don’t think Brandy Clark is the end all to be all either and her support of Sam Hunt is discouraging.
Hillary
April 15, 2015 @ 6:09 pm
Miranda had the clout to make Pistol Annies happen. That was universally praised and helped the way for Musgraves and Clarks’ s awesome cds to be released. Annies put out two traditional albums, both Ashley Monroe and Angaleena Presley got solo deals and are releasing great music. How soon ya forget about Lambert’s albums, song writing, etc.
No yall are right, we better go on and on about how awful she is.
Trigger
April 15, 2015 @ 8:35 pm
She also did a lot for Adam Hood. Some people here have never heard Miranda’s first two albums. Having said that, if you only know her through these quotes and her last few singles, you may not have a very favorable take of her either.
Lunchbox
April 15, 2015 @ 6:22 pm
yeah, well, she’s hot, so..i’m Team Miranda until she murders a puppy or something like that.
BwareDWare94
April 15, 2015 @ 6:34 pm
Yet another reason I’m not on the Miranda bandwagon. She’s tough enough to stomach with all of the “Gunpowder and Lead” rehashes she’s released. You factor in her unnecessary ferocity in situations like the Eric Church comments situation, and she’s pretty much intolerable. You add this to the list and I simply wouldn’t mind if I never heard her on the radio again.
Lane
April 15, 2015 @ 8:57 pm
Wow and they say girls bitch! Men not liking Miranda’s music- not surprised. Her last 2 song have been fun sing at the top of your lungs w/ your girlfriend songs. My goodness she can’t sing House and Over You all the time. Yes I love Platinum for all the songs speaking to ladies. It is not dumbed down. Each song is unique w/ a message. Most artists CDs sound the same, not Miranda. Heck even Garth appreciates that about her. Anyway what is new, women are ALWAYS scrutinized more anyway so keep up the fun comments. PS about the Eric Church comments from years ago- I’m glad that you guys are here to stick up for the poor guy. Good grief.
CountryKnight
April 16, 2015 @ 6:54 am
There is nothing inherently about “hear me roar” songs, but Miranda’s songs in the past about that theme gave her a casus belli for the behavior. “Little Red Wagon” had its narrator sing about how great she was and how no one had a chance with her. Sorry, but there is no difference between that song and a man chanting about how he only dates 10/10 women.
BwareDWare94
April 16, 2015 @ 6:59 am
I’m not being harsh. It’s her own fault for recording the same “I’M MAD AT YOU!” song over and over and over again.
pete marshall
April 15, 2015 @ 6:37 pm
I can’t stand Something Bad and Little Red Wagon is even worse.
Rosalie
April 15, 2015 @ 8:27 pm
I agree. I hate Somethin’ Bad (and I actually quite like both Miranda and Carrie, but SB was a huge disappointment), but somehow Little Red Wagon is even worse. I shudder whenever someone uses the phrase “swag” or “swagger”. And Little Red Wagon is basically just a string of word mashed together (I cannot understand that song, both in what words she is singing and what the hell the words mean)
Summer Jam
April 15, 2015 @ 7:40 pm
families turning their radios to pop music because it’s more family friendly….?? LMFAO. Trigger is this a joke?!!!?? Please tell me it’s a joke.
When i turn to pop radio, all i hear is cussing, talking about getting high and having sex, rapping, and a ton of ignorant shit. even Taylor Swift’s pop music has vulgarity and sexual innuendos. NOT FAMILY FRIENDLY. nothing is family friendly in this day and age…get real!
Trigger
April 15, 2015 @ 8:25 pm
I wasn’t trying to imply that pop is family friendly, only that it may be more family friendly these days than in the past, while country is headed in the opposite direction. Obviously there is vulgarity everywhere, but country once used to be a safe haven. I guess it also depends on what pop station you listen to.
Eric
April 15, 2015 @ 10:07 pm
How is rapping not family friendly? It is just a style of music; the morality is based on the specific lyrics used.
Summer Jam
April 15, 2015 @ 11:40 pm
99.9% of rap music is about sex, drugs, robbery/other crime, violence, and any/every obscene thing you can and even can’t think of. i listen to some older rap when I’m pissed off or feel like shit lol.
Eric
April 15, 2015 @ 11:47 pm
That’s ridiculous. A significant percentage of rap songs feature activist but non-violent and non-sexual lyrics. Here’s a recent example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUZOKvYcx_o
Eric
April 15, 2015 @ 11:51 pm
Here’s a Taylor Swift/B.o.B. collaboration that features some highly philosophical lyrics:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sa9qeV6T0o
Look, I strongly dislike the rap musical style, but the genre does sometimes feature truly meaningful lyrics. The way I see it, rap lyrics tend to be either really good or really bad.
BwareDWare94
April 16, 2015 @ 7:00 am
That is the most moronic comment I’ve ever seen on this site. Either know the genre or don’t speak about it.
Summer Jam
April 16, 2015 @ 2:20 pm
Oh you’re a professional on rap music?
I’m pretty sure trying to get “rap” and “pop” out of country music is why this site even exists. I believe the people who voice their opinions here are supposed to be huge fans of country music, and it’s doubtful that most know much of anything about rap music.
Calling my comment “the most moronic comment on the site” is just as ignorant if not more ignorant than my overall knowledge of the rap genre.
RD
April 16, 2015 @ 7:20 am
” i listen to some older rap when I”™m pissed off or feel like shit lol. ”
That is unfortunate. Try to wean yourself off that habit.
RD
April 16, 2015 @ 7:17 am
As absurdities go, no show is less family friendly than a show on “ABC Family.”
JonEmery
April 15, 2015 @ 10:56 pm
My favorite part of her quote is “and there’s Florida-Georgia Line doing what they do” … I like think there was a long pause between “doing” and “what they do” ending with a smile cocking her head.
Six String Richie
April 16, 2015 @ 4:53 pm
It’s funny how aging, fading country stars tend to voice disdain for bro country, even if they record some of it, and popular, current artists always say they support it and don’t know what it means. How can she say she supports it if she doesn’t know what bro country is?
“I don’t even know what bro country even is, but where I grew up what we did for fun was drive around and drink and chase girls. So quit calling it bro country. People relate to this kind of music.” – Jason Aldean/Tyler Farr/FGL/Miranda Lambert paraphrased quote.
Strait Country 81
April 16, 2015 @ 5:12 pm
Way too much of a big deal being made lol
1. Some of Miranda’s recent stuff hasn’t been great.
2.She has friends she ani’t gonna trash them.
3. George Jones was friends with KC and did you ever hear Jones call him out?
Chris
April 16, 2015 @ 8:08 pm
This isn’t the first time she’s said she loves those bro-country songs. I imagine it can be difficult for mainstream artists to respond to these questions and they are really being put on the spot. Maddie and Tae’s Girl In A Country Song is the best response to bro-country I’ve seen.
There’s not room for everyone on country radio. There’s not enough room for country and women and too much room for pop and men. That’s why women, even Miranda sometimes like right now with Little Red Wagon, struggle to make the top 20 while an endless line of pop and mediocre men like Sam Hunt, Thomas Rhett, Cole Swindell, Brett Eldredge, and Frankie Ballard are handed #1’s on a silver platter. There’s not room for listeners like me who love country music. Only pop radio has room for everyone or more songs from multiple genres because it has several formats and the top 40 chart moves faster. There’s just one country radio format and the chart moves so slowly that just one pop or mediocre country song takes a lot of airplay away from better country songs. While it’s nice to say there’s room for everything, the fact is every Sam Hunt country radio plays displaces a better country artist. There’s room for everything except women and country music is a more accurate exaggeration than “there’s room for everyone.”
Bro-country may be a reason why LRW seems to be struggling at #19 instead of fast-moving to #1. It’s a cover of a pop/rock song but it’s better than many of the overplayed male acts songs higher on the chart. If radio didn’t overplay men and bro-country to the point of getting many listeners hooked on it, turning away country fans and drawing in pop fans, maybe LRW would do better on callout and get played more. It’s #29 on Callout America while Sippin’ On Fire is #1. Brad’s Crushin’ It is #3 on Callout America but next to LRW at #18 on radio. Granted when you’re as overplayed as FGL it’s easier to chart higher on callout.
You can’t please everyone and it’s a mistake for country radio to try to do so with so many no country whatsoever songs as polarizing as Sam Hunt and bro-country, causing themselves to lose many country fan listeners. One FGL is enough or too many. Instead of commenting on bro-country, I’d like to see the women talk about how great the other womens music is and radio should play it. Like when the men called it their “fraternity,” the women need to promote their sorority more.
enigma 7
April 18, 2015 @ 10:07 pm
Long time reader, first time commenter. I guess I’m a different kind of country fan. I don’t dress like I’m from the country, I don’t wear flannels, nothing along those lines, I’m 21, most of my friends are the bro country fans. Most people are shocked when they get in my car and hear Randy Travis.
Anyhow, what brought me to comment is that I’m at a “country” bar tonight. I come here often, but tonight annoyed me to the point of commenting. My biggest pet peeve is the people who will go to a country concert or bar in this case and wear a flannel for the first time in their life, then the next day dress completely different for a rap concert. I digress, I have a guilty pleasure of Chase Rice and Sam Hunt, but I separate in my mind that they aren’t country. When someome says they like country and they tell me Sam Hunt is their favorite artist I laugh. The point of this post is that the bro country movement needs to dissapear forever. I loved country growing up because it told a story. Hell, that should be why we love all music.
HillbillyMusic
April 22, 2015 @ 10:31 am
The sad thing is that all the stats say that the majority of country music fans are over-30 women, so without their assistance this music wouldn’t exist with the popularity it has. Most of these “bro” “country” acts get passes for the misogyny in their songs because they’re “hunks” (I guess I should say PERCEIVED “hunks”).
A few years ago there was an essay in which Robbie Fulks was ripped a new anal orifice for the perceived sexism in his songs. At least the sex he sings about is “nestled in satin” instead of on the top of a John Deere tractor or a tool box.
Kansas
January 6, 2018 @ 6:57 pm
Miranda Lambert is garbage.