I had meant to post about this when I first heard it a few weeks ago, but it’s still worth mentioning that the new Miranda Lambert single, “Dead Flowers”, is everything The9513 says it is. It makes even her best songs sound like juvenilia. It may be a little too Lucinda Williams-ish for my tastes, but it’s a lot more down to earth than Williams has been in a while, so that’s a minor quibble. I’m not sure I’d go so far as to predict it being a smash–even though Miranda isn’t shooting her significant other or setting him on fire this time around, it may still be too dark for country radio. It certainly isn’t getting much play on Lambert’s MySpace page compared to her earlier records. I wonder what the uptempo stuff sounds like.
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