Miranda Lambert Goes Disco on New Album 'Crisco' — SkimNews
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- Miranda Lambert announced her new album 'Crisco,' a country-disco blend she likens to 'Islands in the Stream'-era Dolly Parton, which she first teased with a Crisco Disco Drag Brunch event in Nashville this past summer.
- Lambert earned seven nominations for the Nov. 18 CMA Awards despite not releasing an album of her own this year — 'Crisco' won't be eligible until next year's ceremony.
- Ella Langley co-wrote 'Choosin' Texas' with Lambert and released the breakthrough album 'Dandelion' that Lambert helped produce, and the source calls 'Choosin' Texas' the most successful song in Billboard Hot 100 history.
- Lambert joined Kacey Musgraves on 'Horses and Divorces' in a 'burying-the-hatchet' moment, framing it within her mission to elevate other women in a genre where female artists rarely receive more than 10 percent of country-radio airplay.
- Lambert credits Dolly Parton as a foundational influence — she wore Parton's rhinestones (dubbed 'Dolly drops') to the interview and told Rolling Stone, 'Would I be sitting here without [Parton]? Probably not.'
- The disco direction grew out of Lambert's 2024 collab with Chris Stapleton on 'A Song to Sing,' and she argues the Seventies are an underrated well for country: 'Great songs were great songs, and it didn't have to live in a box.'
Why it matters: Miranda Lambert earned seven CMA nominations without releasing an album of her own this year, and co-wrote what the source calls the most successful Billboard Hot 100 song in history — proof that her biggest impact now runs through the artists she mentors and produces rather than her own catalog.
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