Kacey Musgraves is finally addressing her feud with Miranda Lambert.
If you didn’t know, the two country music singers have been at odds for over a decade and in a new interview, Kacey, 37, revealed what caused her rift with Miranda, 42.
Keep reading to find out more…While speaking to NPR on Wednesday (March 11), Kacey said that she wrote Miranda‘s 2011 mega-hit song “Mama’s Broken Heart,” and that she initially wanted to record it herself.
“It was gonna be my first single and I loved the song so much,” Kacey explained. “I had been a staff writer for years at that point, writing for other people, and had finally felt like I was collecting songs that felt like me that I didn’t wanna pitch to anyone else.”
Kacey claimed that the song was pitched to Miranda with her “consent or knowledge” and that Miranda ultimately got to put the song on her 2011 album Four the Record because she was a bigger star at the time.
“It was a tricky situation. She ended up loving the song and she really wanted it,” Kacey recalled. “And I had other co-writers to consider.”
“It was two singers from two nearby, small Texas towns. There’s a lot that comes with that. Then we each take our own different paths, both leading us to Nashville at different times, added Kacey, who like Miranda is also from Texas.
Looking back at the situation, Kacey said that she is now fine with the way things turned out because it “forced” her to write “Merry Go Around,” which was featured on her 2013 debut album Same Trailer Different Park.
Now all these years later, Kacey and Miranda have buried the hatchet and have collaborated on the new song “Horses and Divorces,” which will be featured on Kacey‘s upcoming album Middle of Nowhere.
“We’d lost touch for years and wouldn’t consider each other friends,” Kacey shared. “I saw her on Instagram one day, riding one of her horses, and I was like, ‘Well, we ain’t friends, but I guess we have two things in common, horses and divorces, that’s for sure.’”
Seeing Miranda‘s Instagram activity made Kacey thing of a “really funny song” decided to reach out to see if they could co-wrote and record it together.
“I was like, ‘I know we’ve had our s–t over the years, but listen, we’ve at least got two things in common,’” Kacey recalled. “‘I’m not trying to be your friend. You got your life, I have mine. But I think this would be a pretty f–king funny song, and we should write it with Shane [McAnally].’”
Miranda responded to Kacey that she was in to collaborate, which Kacey said was a “very full circle in so many ways.” The two ladies “aired out any of the old laundry,” had “some laughs” and wrote the song “in a matter of a few hours.”
Kacey will be dropping Middle of Nowhere on May 1. You can listen to her new song “Dry Spell” here!
