Miranda Lambert - “More Like Her”

I would love to see Dry Town as a single. I do think as a whole, it is a great cd.

this song may have some value if your looking to get a grip on miranda lambert’s overall catalogue, which i enjoy greatly, but a potential hit-single it ain’t. it’s too forgettable, literally.

I’ll be the first positive voice on this thread. I love this song. I have hoped it would be released the first time I heard it. I don’t expect it to do particularly well on radio, but I hope we’re all wrong and that it does. I like “desperation” and it has one of my favorite Miranda lines, “Give a dog a bone and I’ll take it if I have to”, but I still like this one better. To me, the production, vocals and even melody are more appealing. I think my one problem with “Desperation” is the rhyme of “desperation” and “frustration”; it almost seems too easy.

Okay, so that’s how how I really feel.:)

First off, great review Brady! I really love this song, and is a perfect example of how Miranda makes music that is so unique and has so much emotion in it, which is a rarity in country radio these days. The lyrics in this song come out and grab you! Plus this song live is absolutely AMAZING! I really hope it does well and if anyone can make this a hit its Miranda.

Miranda and her label may be trying to keep Miranda from being pigeon holed at Airhead Country Radio as purely a rockin’ “tough chick” artist. It seems the “Airhead” programmers quickly come to expect a certain style and sound from new Top 20 artists that they want repeated ad nauseum. When Gretchen Wilson broke on the scene with “Redneck Woman” and followed it up with “Here For The Party” it set a tone and only the rockin’ and similar “All Jacked Up” got real Top 40 radio support (with some for “California Girls” as well). When Gretchen released slow ballad singles to radio they were ignored and now she has been pretty much forgotten by airhead radio entirely.

Releasing a pleasant sounding slow song like this is also an effort to broaden her fan base to include those who may not like her tough chick stylings (i.e. myself for example). Personally I think this is a good song but as mentioned by most others here it lacks “airhead appeal factor”. If this single does well at radio it will be due to rabid Miranda fans (like Mirandas2Cool) requesting it like crazy (ex-girlfriends that is..)

I consider myself a pretty big fan of hers, but maybe not rabid.:) Right now, she may be my favorite current mainstream country female artist. Of course, the female singers of my youth will always win out though.

The songs with the singable hooks are the ones that tend to end up growing tiresome to me after awhile.

Matt nailed it, although it’s nice to have a mainstream artist who would rather release a cohesive song than a whole bunch of drivel surrounding one catchy part. I think “Desperation” would have been the better commercial single, but this one is more interesting, IMO. Mostly, I just really want to see her release “Dry Town.”

Ditto to “Dry Town”!

As a big Miranda fan and I am so excited to see this as the new single because like many of you stated I feel it is really important for her to have a change of pace and go with a ballad.The one thing I hear all the time about Miranda is that she is good but she doesn’t have the vocals to pull off a ballad, this song should help to aleviate most of those doubts. Whether or not this becomes a radio hit remains to be seeen, (I think there is a very good chance it will, but I’m biased)but the most important thing about the choice of this single is to prove to country fans Miranda’s more than just “scary chick” songs.

I love her “slower” stuff, and have to agree that “New Strings”,”Me And Charlie Talkin”,and “Famous In A Small Town” were so dreadfully “man hating” I would’nt think about putting them on the radio. (that was sarcastic for you idiots). Miranda has a very wide range of Great songs on her albums that will never see airplay from the big co ops that run the dismal american idol worishiping fcc. I just hope I can see more from a real artist in the future rather than relying on disney for American music.

There’s no way Dry Town will get released, but I too would love it! If only for the fact that my town is mentioned in it!!

Rich, maybe we should talk then.:)

This is pure speculation, but I wonder if they’re avoiding “Dry Town” because of the drinking and driving aspect of it?:

Well the road was hot and flat as a ruler
Good hundred miles between me and Missoula
That vinyl top wasn’t gettin’ no cooler
I stopped at a quickie sack
Well I figured I’d need about a sixth of Miller
And one of those things so I wouldn’t spill ‘er
I asked the girl if the beer was in the back

I havent heard Dry Town, but the lyrics LeeAnn posted sure dont impress me much.

God bless Miranda Lambert. I love this song! I think it is one of her best songs, and this will help broaden her image. “Love Letters” and “Desperation” come in 3rd and 2nd compared to this song. And if radio doesn’t play “More Like Her”, well use your imagination.

P.S. Rich I’m a girl and I love her music. I don’t understand how anyone could hate her. Unless of course they’re more into the Carrie Underwood, Jessica Simpson, convert Miley to country kind of music.

I cannot imagine “Dry Town” as a single, for a variety of reasons.

excuse me, but we still have Dry Town’s in both Ohio and in Illinois — and I do not think that either one of those are considered the south….

Lannibug,

Wow. I thought only the south was like that. Though, to be fair I am sure there are ‘dry towns’ in Utah or fundamentalist Mormon areas of Colorado and Arizona.

I just think “Dry Town” can’t be a single because it’s — gasp! — too country.

My sister lives in the Salt Lake City area and the beer there is the same as it is everywhere else in the country. The 3.2% law applies from 10-1 am at bars (which stop all spirit sales at 10 as well). There are also murmers that the state will revoke that law or the ‘private club’ law (the only places in the state where people can get ‘heavy’ beer and spirits after before noon and after 10 pm).

I got most of that info from Here.

That being said, You can get microbrews in state liquor stores, not grocery stores. Washington State has strict alcohol sale laws too (no hard liquor is sold privately, it’s all sold by the state and you can only buy beer and wine on Sunday).

I tend to retain alot of knowledge but most of it isn’t actually applicable to a career (until now, lol)

It most certainly does.

Yeah, im afraid Dry Town is too country for “country” radio too. What has radio come too. I love that song though, its so unique and catchy and everything.

Anyone know why they only let this song chart for about 3 weeks, make it to #51, and then pull the plug?

This song was awesome :(

More like her is climbing and about to chart, thanks to the hard work of the dedicated Ran Fans. Go Miranda!