Miranda Lambert on Her New Label, Republic, Setting a Fire With ‘Wranglers,’ and Returning to Recording in Texas: ‘I Just Feel Like, Finally, I’m Home’
variety.comChris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic When people think of country superstar Miranda Lambert, one of the things that first comes to mind is pyro — not because she has that huge a penchant for setting things off on stage (though it happens), but because of lyrical connotations going back to her first platinum single, “Kerosene.” When it comes to her own career, though, things have consistently gone too well to ever need to go into burn-it-all-down mode.
As she’s subtle changed approach from album to album and single to single, Lambert has been all about controlled burns. She took a prescribed torch to one part of her career when she left her long-time label, Sony Nashville, last year, taking a year after that to announce just a few weeks ago that she’s signed a new deal with the company that is responsible for more music blockbusters than any other right now: Republic Records.
Not missing any bets, she and Republic have an agreement with Big Loud specifically to work her music in the country realm — almost the inverse, it would seem, of the symbiosis already found in what Republic has done to bring Big Loud’s Morgan Wallen into the wider pop universe.
While she’s getting a definitive fresh start on the business side, her first single for Big Loud, “Wranglers,” delivers the Lambert touch the world knows.
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