2015 was definitely a rough year for country singer Miranda Lambert. The 32-year-old divorced Blake Shelton (who promptly hooked up with Gwen Stefani), was accused of being a homewrecker after canoodling with married singer Dierks Bentley and was called a #FurHag for modeling a hand-me-down fur coat she got for Christmas. For a while it seemed like she couldn’tcatch a break.
Well, the tide has turned for Miranda. She’s hooked up her “little red wagon” to fellow musician Anderson East, a former Nashville session musician she met while recording the upcoming compilation album Southern Family. The pair have been dating for a few months, but have recently shared their romance online. Miranda posted a photo snuggled up with her 27-year-old paramour at a ski resort with the caption “The snuggle is real…” Really?
The couple probably had a lot of time under the blankets on this trip, as Anderson took a tumble on the slopes, breaking his collarbone. Ouch. A source told US Magazine, “So it wasn’t quite the fun holiday trip they wanted, but they were still happy to be together and he’s really happy she was there nursing him by his side and making sure he was OK.”
Miranda, who was the cover model for Cosmopolitan’s January issue, told the magazine, “I just want to live a life full of everything. I just love what I do so much. I love songwriting and the road and the family of country music. I love being a female in country music and lifting up other females of country. I’m more in it right now than I ever have been.”
If “Miranderson” (copyright Corey, 2016) is really a “thing,” I’m happy for her. And, come on, admit it, after a bad breakup, you’ve taken to social media to show off photos of your new hookup, hoping your ex will see them….or was that just me?
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Miranda Lambert is so talented. Great songwriter. I think she’d be better off keeping her life off social media thougH….
Totally agree. The social media is a bit much. She can very easily show off her boyfriend at red carpet events where her picture will end up everywhere. It would look so much less forced.
What a strange world we live in now, when people take and post pictures of their supposedly intimate moments for all the world to see, and post little captions like “the snuggle is real.” No, if the snuggle was real, you would be snuggling, not taking pictures. It has become normal to be this obvious in seeking validation for your every move. Sad. I’m not picking on Miranda specifically. This just struck me as how far we have gone into this hole of narcissism.
You said it best.. Everyone is stopping to post the picture. And exactly who took this picture. It is always amazing that someone is always ready with the camera to snap that “PERFECT MOMENT” for them or they do it themselves.
I know celebs get ragged on for doing photoshoots but I much prefer those once in a blue moon to these daily shots. Look I hope she is happy; but in all honesty I don’t see her new relationship lasting that long; nor Gwen and Blake. Not wishing or hoping for splits. But I just don’t see them as long lasting. I could be wrong so we shall see.
Romance 2016: “baby, i lov..” “wait a moment, no…move your face a bit to the left…oookay…wait…i’ll upload it right away”
I agree with everything you said, but I do think the comment was a play on the phrase “the struggle is real”
I think it is extreme insecurity. I personally don’t see the need or desire for being “liked” by thousands or millions of people who see you as you want them to see you and who you don’t know or want to know instead of a small group of friends and family who care for you as you are. I was really hoping she would stay out of the mud and not act like her ex, but to each their own I guess. Now they both look bad. I do hope she is genuinely happy though. Now if you’ll excuse me, I have some more after-school specials to watch in an effort to reaffirm my position that it is okay that millions of people don’t “like, follow, upvote, or whatever” me on anti-social media.
GNAT: agreed. Deep thought, please indulge me:
Do you think the tide will ever turn? When we are young, we always want to do the opposite of what our parents (aka old people) are doing. Note: the rise and fall of Facebook. Do you think this next generation will eschew putting everything out there and choose to be mysterious or “off the grid”? This is my Pollyanna fantasy for my children’s generation ( they’re still toddlers).
and it isn’t just celebs. Everyone does it now.
One of the best comments about social media #blessed type postings! It doesn’t even apply to only celebrities.
It’s also embarrassing when those same people who post a gazillion couple photos end up deleting them all upon breaking up.
Celebrities, singers, whatever, they’re just like high school kids.
I’m realizing that MOST people are a lot more like highschool kids than they think. I swear, most of the people working with me who have kids my age are more catty and snotty than the people coming in in their early 20’s. It’s not wonder that so many kids are so bratty and childish – their parents are just as bad.
But I do think there’s an extra abundance of it in famous-land. It seems to really attract that kind of person.
I would really like to un-see her armpit in that first picture… what in the world is going on there?!?
Man! You HAD to point that out and made me LOOK! So mad at you right now. 😉
It looks like her awards are throwing light.
Singles these days just don’t understand the struggle. Back when I was single we didn’t have social media, we had to go out and hope that we ran into our ex only when we looked made up with a hot guy on our arm. Usually it ended up being I would run into him when I was wearing sweats with my hair up, no makeup and no boyfriend.
LOL So true.
Haha yes!! Too funny.
THIS.
Oh, the nostalgia! I’m just old enough to have tried to do that, and of course the one night my ex showed up at the bar was the one when I was stopping in after work in grimy clothes rather than the one when I was dolled up and with a cute guy who wasn’t really my boyfriend but who I’d hope would pass as one.
My guess is the armpit thing is from the weight she lost. Some extra skin going on. I feel for her. Blake moved on SO fast, and very publicly with Gwen. I feel like that picture was: ‘look people-I’m not crying in a dark corner somewhere. I’m fine.’
But if she’s been dating ‘for a couple of months’ and Blake and Gwen hooked up at the end of October, how is that different? He and Gwen worked with each other prior to that, but so did Miranda and Easton.
I think this is branding. Miranda is supposed to be a tough, in your face, take no BS girl, and I think she felt moving on was consistent with her brand. She cheated on Blake in a long term affair (I am not disputing Blake’s fidelity, because there have been rumours about both of them, but she had the long term affair with someone in her inner circle with a family), and risked her marriage. I don’t feel too badly for her.
Someone likes sheer panels!
I was thinking she must really love her boobs. She likes to show them off.
I’m disturbed her vulva is exposed in the first photo, even if it is in the atypical location of her axillary region…
I read she starting following Gwen on twitter or Instagram, and that while Gwen hasn’t followed back, she “liked” something Miranda tweeted or retweeted or had on instagram. Is that true?
I’m not on any of those platforms and I just CANNOT understand why you would want to be actively following anyone’s ex or current on those. I get occasionally wanting to know what’s going on but that’s just asking for heartbreak or jealousy.
Yeah and I think it’s stupid. If u weren’t following of like that person’s or their posts, before, it looks crazy to start now.
Well shucks Miranda is a tough chick. She bought herself a box of Tennessee Sunset hair dye, new color, Blind Me Yellla, Got a new paint job for Old Betsy, that dang blasted truck never fails me y’all and threw a six pack in the back. Then she ran down to the shooting range for some target practice. I’m bright as a shiny new penny they heard her say. Snug as a bug in a rug.
I don’t get her. Why is she following Gwen on social media? Does she really need to track her ex-husband’s new girlfriend? And Blake and her divorced in July, with Blake and Gwen starting to date in late October, early November. The same month of November she started dating this dude, so why is she giving interviews criticizing Blake when she had a little secret that she was already dating as well.
I don’t know. She seems a little off to me and there are just as many very specific rumors of her having an affair as people are accusing Blake of, with no evidence or names at all, so I’m not going to immediately go pro-Miranda on that front.
Where did she criticize Blake? I think Blake is the one who has asked her to put on a good show, follow Gwen, tweet him back when he tweets at her. He’s become a mega celebrity based on his “lovable, redneck goofiness”. If he looks like a dick ( as he has a lot in the last few months), his status suffers. And no way did they start up in October.
I’m very distracted with the blanket. I want that blanket.
Is that even a blanket? It looks like a coat.
Someone needs a new stylist, stat.
I think all the selfies and photo-documenting is for the purpose of building and framing the brand. This is how it’s done now. I hope it changes, I don’t want my daughters to grow up needing to snap a shot and share everything.
She was really young when she and Blake got together, and wanted marriage right away. I think it was less romantic than what she envisioned. It will be interesting to see how she navigates herself solo, because it doesn’t sound like she has the support of the Nashville community. She might need to check her ego and have some humility to get back in their good graces. She has her work cut out for her, but she’s talented. I don’t like her persona or music personally, but think she is an excellent song writer.
I don’t get the impression she did it to show it off to Blake so much as to show her fans that she doesn’t want to be the Aniston in this trio. She’s good, she’s over it, she’s moving on.
they apparently came home to Bama the other day. The local people can’t even handle it LOL