Miranda Lambert is so grateful for her fans, especially during her live shows. The country music superstar reveals how she has learned to rely on her fans, even when she isn't feeling her best.
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"I feel like I am totally energized by the crowd," Lambert tells WKML. "I mean after so many times stepping on the stage, some days you're just not as in it on your first song as you are other days. And where some days there's hard stuff going on in your life or you know, where you're just kind of sick but you're at work and you gotta go do it."
In the earlier days of her career, Lambert might have been tempted to cancel a show if she wasn't feeling up to par. But now, Lambert knows that her fans will likely never let her down.
"I've had several shows that I was struggling when I walked on," Lambert shares. "And three songs [in] and I was like completely taking a deep breath and like, 'Thank you. Y'all are here. I needed that love today, and I'm giving back.' I definitely rely on them so much."
Her New Single, "Run"
Lambert is getting to release a brand-new single, "Run." The song, from her latest Postcards from Texas project, was written by Lambert, by herself. Still, she waited until now before feeling ready to release the song.
"I wasn't ever ready to perform it until now," Lambert reveals on Today's Country Radio. "That's what songs are for, and you may not be ready at that one time to sing about something really raw... but then it can come back around."
Lambert says the vulnerable song is "an admission of human error too...It's an apology, but it's also a resolve."
The video for "Run" shows Lambert where she feels most at home -- on a horse.
"There is always a sense of freedom when you're on the back of a horse with the wind in your hair, so it felt really significant to have Cool with me in this video," Lambert explains. "I love horses because they're a way to run to something - or away if you need to. I started riding when I turned 30 and wanted to try more things that scared me. Now horses are such a passion of mine and mounted shooting is a brand-new way to push myself and to chase that feeling of being bravely true to yourself, which is exactly what this song is about."
