Miranda Lambert has launched particulars of her upcoming album Postcards From Texas – and the third single is a rip-roaring divorce anthem referred to as “Alimony”.
“I referred to as that lawyer up in Dallas, the one who’s livin’ in that palace / So I do know he’s good at winnin’, in the event you suppose there’s somethin’ that you simply’re missin’…” she croons on the pre-chorus earlier than the refrain quips on the phrases alimony and the Alamo: “When you’re gonna depart me in San Antone, keep in mind the alimony.”
“My mother and father had been personal investigators in Dallas, Texas who labored a ton of divorce circumstances in highfalutin components of city, so this wasn’t exhausting to put in writing. I’d heard about it my entire life,” mentioned Miranda, who’s fortunately married to husband Brendan McLoughlin.
“We used each Texas metaphor we may provide you with on objective; we wished to take one thing type of shitty and put some humor again in it. I imply, the man will get out fairly simple if all he does is transfer again in together with his mother,” added Miranda.
Her new album Postcards From Texas is her ninth studio album, and sees her working with Grammy-winning songwriter/producer Jon Randall. It’s her first album since 2022’s Palomino; she already launched ‘Wranglers’ and ‘Damnit Randy,’ which she wrote with husband.
The music talks a couple of relationship turned bitter, with Miranda singing: “Properly, dammit, Randy, did you ever hear me in any respect?/You had been standin’ bone dry in the midst of a waterfall/You had been livin’ in the dead of night, however you could not see the sunshine of day/We had been image excellent, however you could not put it in a body”.
It was launched simply weeks earlier than a video of Brendan, a former New York policeman, was captured on video dancing with different ladies at Miranda’s Nashville bar Casa Rosa.
Brendan met Miranda simply two months earlier than the pair tied the knot in January 2019.
“We did not date very lengthy earlier than we received married. And so we type of received to simply actually, actually, actually get to know one another,” she instructed Sirius XM of the couple transferring to Tennessee after their wedding ceremony. “It was simply us two with no distraction at my farm outdoors of Nashville. And so I used to be actually grateful for it as a result of it made us actually robust.”
Miranda was beforehand married to nation star Blake Shelton from 2011 till they break up in 2015. He’s now married to his The Voice co-star and No Doubt singer Gwen Stefani.
