Miranda Lambert has opened up about her divorce with Blake Shelton - and how she channelled her emotions to make a whopping 75 songs about it. As reported by People, that involved a lot of "misery" stemming from a "not fun time".
In case you didn't know, the pair were married up until 2015, when their divorce sent shockwaves through the country music scene. And, as she recalls, the circumstances weren't ideal (as if divorces are for anyone!)
"I got divorced and that sucks for anyone," Miranda Lambert explained. "Especially in the public eye, especially on tour, especially in the middle of a very public career - two of us - you know what I mean?" She branded the whole experience, "a really not fun time".
"And I, in the meantime, had moved back to Nashville full-time." A lot of people, when faced with big life changes like divorces, throw themselves into something. Whether it's a hobby, a passion, work, or some mix of the three, it keeps them grounded and keeps them going.
Luckily for Miranda Lambert, country music spans those three things. "I dove headfirst into songwriting," she admitted. The divorce, after all, had left her without songwriting for a hot minute - "I had missed it," she explained.
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She said that the music she'd worked on following her divorce was the "opposite" of her previous works.
Rather than just heading into Nashville and recording it, she'd fully lived there. "When I moved back in 2015, I gathered up all of my friends and relationships from, you know, all o fthe previous years and just used it, used the misery," she explained.
"I used the staying out too late at honky-tonks, I used what I was living and my friends went on that journey with me - friends being songwriters - and I think I wrote 75 songs in like, a year. I mean, in the like, the first four months I moved back."
She also said about how the whole experienced was a double-edged sword. "It was kind of magical [too]," Miranda Lambert explained. "Because I really started growing my songwriting then."
