On November 1st, 2019, Miranda Lambert released her seventh solo album, Wildcard. Her last album, “The Weight of These Wings”, was released in 2016, but the band she is apart of, known as The Pistol Annies, released an album in 2018. Lambert’s album has been long anticipated by her fans.
Even though her last release was a double album following her divorce from her ex-husband Blake Shelton, Wildcard strongly resembles the confidence and sincerity of her album Kerosene.
Wildcard is all about owning who you are and embracing it. She opens up with the song “White Trash” to own where she came from, even though her life has changed from who she once was.
This album has songs that cover a wide range of emotions at low tempos that lead into high ones, low tempos all the way through, and upbeat songs that you can belt out of the open car window. In her song “Tequila Does” Lambert starts off with just an acoustic guitar and her voice, slow and steady. Then she picks up the pace and adds some drums, and repeats how she started and leading into a more upbeat song.
Lambert is all about adding her roots of country music, heart, emotions, rock and roll, and life experiences into her songs. “Dark Bars” is about how a bar is a place where she can just go and simply exist. She does not have to feel anything and it is a place where she is comfortable and she sings, “Neon truths can hit real hard in a dark bar.” On her last album, “The Weight of These Wings”, the song “Ugly Lights” has the same theme of this song but with a more upbeat pace.
“The Weight of These Wings” had so much emotion and weight to it. It was all about embracing the pain and also being true to yourself. You could feel the pain and loss within the songs, whereas Wildcard is about embracing the skin you are in. The confidence behind Wildcard makes it her most unique album yet.
Miranda Lambert is a country artist and on this record, she decided to add rock and roll into her music, something that many country artists do not do. She has a very old school country sound, but it is very up to date with music nowadays. She said, “Some point when you make a bunch of records, you get to a place where you’re like what can I do that’s going to push me? Country is what I do. It’s who I am. It literally seeps out of my pores, but I love rock and roll.”
Lambert sings country music in a very unique way. It is the type of music your grandparents would like because it is an old school country, but her music also has that upbeat and modern touch to it. She performs her music in such an alluring way it leaves the audience in awe. When listening to her music, she wants the audience to feel every single emotion they can and never falls short of this.
Overall, this album has mixed together with her sounds from previous songs while adding new tempos and ways of performing. Lambert’s heart, soul, and gift for singing country music is one of the many reasons her fans adore her. The release of Wildcard surpassed expectations and the hope within it shines through onto her audience.
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