Miranda Lambert Finally Opens Up About “The Weight of These Wings”

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When Miranda Lambert released her album “The Weight of These Wings” in 2016 she refused to do any interviews for the record and now she’s opening up about the decision. “I came into [manager] Marion [Kraft]’s office and said, 'I’m not speaking to anyone until they hear this record,'" she tells HITS Daily Double. "That’s fair. I thought that was fair." 

 Miranda realized that talking about her breakup with Blake Shelton, the inspiration behind the record, "was going to be hell, and I’d already been through hell." She adds, "It was hell putting it on paper, putting my words on paper. So, I didn’t want to rehash. I’d finally gotten to a place where I wasn’t sad anymore. All the sad moments were there, all the truths were right in those songs. All you had to do was listen. I didn’t need to say anything."

And when Miranda was finally ready to do press, things went bad quickly. “When the music was out, people had listened, I got on the phone for the first interview," she shares. "First question was, 'How do you feel about Gwen (Stefani)?' I hung up. I told Marion, 'I just can’t do this.'”

• As for her pain, Miranda says, “Sometimes you have to wallow in it a little bit,” and admits when she was ready to make the record she knew, “I’m ready to feel every bit of it, and I’m gonna use all of it.” Finally, she offers, “I didn’t even know really what all it was gonna take to come out of it, but I was gonna feel it. And I was gonna come out alive. Hungover a lot, maybe, but I was gonna get through it. Alive and feeling like death, but it was OK. It was true."

Source: HitsDailyDouble