![]() ![]() ![]() There are times when she drifts too far toward crass crossover, but she doesn't run risks when she adopts a vocoder, which she does to great aplomb on "Smokin' and Drinkin'," a duet with Little Big Town that has all of their smoothness and none of their slickness. Platinum is notable because Lambert tries to be everything to everyone here and damn near succeeds. By most measures, she reigns supreme in 2010s' contemporary country in a way her husband does not: she's a songwriter, which he is not, she spends her spare time in the Pistol Annies and he spends his downtime on TV and she, far more than her husband, takes musical risks. ![]() This romance pushed Lambert into mainstream tabloids, a situation she addresses on "Priscilla," where she laments that "it's a difficult thing being queen of the king," an odd turn of phrase considering Miranda is by no means subservient to Blake. A star since her 2005 debut Kerosene - it was released on the heels of her also-ran placing on 2003's Nashville Star, so she's never known a time outside of the spotlight - her fame reached the stratosphere in the 2010s, after she married fellow country star Blake Shelton in 2011, not long after he became one of the judges on NBC's The Voice. The first edge refers to Miranda Lambert's hair - as she sings on the title track, "what doesn't kill you only makes you blonder" - the second refers to her fame, a topic she returns to often throughout her fifth record. ![]()
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