Miranda Lambert Says Divorce Inspired 75 Songs

Miranda Lambert said she wrote about 75 songs after moving back to Nashville in 2015, drawing on the difficult period surrounding her divorce from Blake Shelton. She described the songwriting as an outlet for her experiences and said the work helped shape her 2016 album, The Weight of These Wings. Lambert discussed the period on the October 27 episode of songwriter Ross Golan’s And the Writer Is podcast. She recalled that the divorce was especially difficult amid touring and the public attention surrounding both artists’ careers. “It just was a really not fun time,” she said. After returning to Nashville full time, Lambert said she immersed herself in songwriting and brought experiences from her life into the process. She recalled involving friends who were songwriters and using details such as staying out late at honky-tonks. Her estimate of 75 songs was approximate: she initially said she thought she had written them over about a year, then clarified that the period was roughly her first four months back in Nashville. Lambert said she was not writing toward a particular record or sound. Instead, she described the songs as emerging from raw emotion and said the period...