While writing songs for her upcoming album Miranda Lambert made sure that her songs spoke her truth.
"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.
"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."
