Miranda Lambert Crashes Kacey Musgraves' Austin Show — SkimNews
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- Kacey Musgraves surprised her Austin audience on Wednesday night by bringing out Miranda Lambert during her Middle of Nowhere tour stop, and the two performed "Horses and Divorces" from Musgraves' album of the same name.
- Miranda Lambert told Rolling Stone the women-against-women narrative is "unfair," blaming an industry that "pits women against one another," and said women "need to do this together."
- Lambert is producing Ella Langley's album Dandelion, while Musgraves recently contributed vocals to Megan Moroney's "Bells & Whistles" — both backing other female artists in concrete, ongoing ways.
- Lambert released her new album Crisco on Oct. 2 and recently visited the Rolling Stone Studio, where she dismissed the supposed years-long beef: "neither one of us really cares or knows what it was about anymore."
- Musgraves released a Spanish version of her Texas radio hit "Uncertain, TX" with Intocable and still has three more Texas tour dates ahead in Austin and Dallas.
Why it matters: Lambert's Rolling Stone comments reframe the rumored feud as a media-constructed narrative that actively hurts female country artists. With both Lambert and Musgraves now publicly collaborating while also producing and featuring on other women's projects, the Austin duet functions as a deliberate, on-stage counter-statement to the scarcity-driven industry dynamic they describe.
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