While writing songs for her upcoming album Miranda Lambert made sure that her songs spoke her truth.
When it came to creating her first album since her divorce from fellow country crooner and "The Voice" coach Blake Shelton, Lambert said honesty was "never really a choice."
"Everybody knew anyway. So I just said, I'm gonna journal it, and -- good days and bad days -- use it for my art," she explained.
The first single of the yet untitled album is a reflection of Lambert's old country roots and is what she describes as a "tear in your beer song."
"Vice" is a song about heartbreak and using sex and alcohol to numb the pain.
That kind of vulnerability, especially after Lambert's time in the tabloids, lends a certain uneasiness to the process, she said.
"I'm nervous as hell," she said. "I've been hunkered down for a year writing, recording, trying to live a normal life and getting ready for a new album. No one's heard from me. I've been pretty silent all this time. And now that I'm coming with a song, it does make me nervous. I feel like the right thing to do was just come out with something really honest."
In a concert in Illinois recently, the former "Nashville Star" finalist openly wept onstage while singing a song she wrote with Shelton.
Still Lambert says she'll continue to draw on her real life as she puts the finishing touches on her album, which is set to be released in December.
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"Every record I've ever made has been a reflection of where I am right then in my life, however old I am," she said. "And I've never held back at all."