Miranda Lambert continues her blood-thirsty revenge streak, sharpens her acting skills and goes off the deep end in the brand-new video for "Mama's Broken Heart," the fourth single from Lambert's fourth studio album, "Four the Record." The famously fiery songstress is known for going off the rails in her songs and videos, but she reaches new heights in this particular clip, both visually and dramatically. Of course, that's exactly what we expect her to do, because her latest single, "Mama’s Broken Heart," is all about going crazy in the wake of a breakup.
Lambert has built a calculated image as country music pistol-packing bad girl, but that image works best when it's not beating us over the head a la "Fastest Girl In Town." When she's mercurial, she's magic. The 29-year-old calls "Mama's Broken Heart," is the one song she couldn't live without on the album. "The reason I love this song is because it's about how sometimes when you get your heart broken, you kinda go a little bit crazy," Lambert confessed of the moderate uptempo tune, which was penned by fellow Texan Kacey Musgraves with Shane McAnally and Brandy Clark, and it tells the story of all the things you do too much to get through the pain of heartbreak.
The lyric details this scorned woman's self-destructive means of catharsis, while wisely leaving her ultimate revenge for the listener to imagine. The song's female narrator acts out as she struggles with a break-up, which leads people to begin taking notice of her behavior. When her mother finds out, she responds by scolding her daughter and telling her to regain her composure. The narrator scarifies her spotless reputation in favor of revenge, which is in contrast with the way her mother's generation handled such situations, but ultimately she takes matters into her own hands because "[it isn't] her mama's broken heart." The song courses through the Texan's veins, and Lambert's vocal delivery is sharp, clear and poignant.
Lambert portrays her best Stepford Wife in the beginning of the Trey Fanjoy-directed what looks a 1960's-era clip, perfectly coiffed and gowned in a wealthy home, but quickly degenerates into a reasonable facsimile of Courtney Love, as she handles her heartbreak with ripped fishnets, bouffant hair, crying drunk, smoking in the bathtub, gleefully eying a kitchen knife, smeared makeup, and gardening shears - the action happens in rapid cuts as Lambert dabbles in all those things and displays a pitch-perfect balance of humor with drama in the clip, and you can watch it below and see how she hides her crazy!
Lambert has built a calculated image as country music pistol-packing bad girl, but that image works best when it's not beating us over the head a la "Fastest Girl In Town." When she's mercurial, she's magic. The 29-year-old calls "Mama's Broken Heart," is the one song she couldn't live without on the album. "The reason I love this song is because it's about how sometimes when you get your heart broken, you kinda go a little bit crazy," Lambert confessed of the moderate uptempo tune, which was penned by fellow Texan Kacey Musgraves with Shane McAnally and Brandy Clark, and it tells the story of all the things you do too much to get through the pain of heartbreak.
The lyric details this scorned woman's self-destructive means of catharsis, while wisely leaving her ultimate revenge for the listener to imagine. The song's female narrator acts out as she struggles with a break-up, which leads people to begin taking notice of her behavior. When her mother finds out, she responds by scolding her daughter and telling her to regain her composure. The narrator scarifies her spotless reputation in favor of revenge, which is in contrast with the way her mother's generation handled such situations, but ultimately she takes matters into her own hands because "[it isn't] her mama's broken heart." The song courses through the Texan's veins, and Lambert's vocal delivery is sharp, clear and poignant.
Lambert portrays her best Stepford Wife in the beginning of the Trey Fanjoy-directed what looks a 1960's-era clip, perfectly coiffed and gowned in a wealthy home, but quickly degenerates into a reasonable facsimile of Courtney Love, as she handles her heartbreak with ripped fishnets, bouffant hair, crying drunk, smoking in the bathtub, gleefully eying a kitchen knife, smeared makeup, and gardening shears - the action happens in rapid cuts as Lambert dabbles in all those things and displays a pitch-perfect balance of humor with drama in the clip, and you can watch it below and see how she hides her crazy!
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