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“This Ain't It, Sis”: Miranda Lambert Light-Heartedly Reads ‘Mean Tweets’ About Her Morgan Wallen Tour Announcement

February 5, 2025 5:35 pm GMT

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When Morgan Wallen unveiled his blockbuster 2025 I'm the Problem Tour, one of the main talking-points was the star-studded roster of support acts recruited as part of the run.

Established country headliners such as Miranda Lambert, Brooks & Dunn and Thomas Rhett will open for the Sneedville megastar this summer, underlining just how stratospheric Morgan Wallen's status has become in the lead-up to his fourth studio album.

The overriding emotion that has met this tour announcement was one of excitement and delight at the prospect of getting to see such a dizzying array of hitmakers performing with Wallen. However, as is always the case, there were some detractors that have shared their bemusement at how a country legend such as Miranda Lambert is content to be an opener, rather than a headliner in her own right.

Amusingly - and perhaps pointedly - Miranda Lambert has shared a light-hearted new video of her reading some of these critical comments about her I'm the Problem unveiling, in the style of Jimmy Kimmel's famous Mean Tweets online video series.

The ‘Tequila Does’ singer-songwriter explains, “I'm reading through the comments on the Morgan Wallen tour announcement - my comments on my Instagram”.

She rattles through a series of disgruntled remarks such as “I'll pass. I was the biggest Miranda fan”, “Hm, Team Miranda forever. This comes as a shock” and the curt “This ain't it, sis”.

One follower was particularly upset, suggesting Miranda Lambert and Morgan Wallen should seek repentance, “I'm so disappointed in both of you. May God forgive you both”, with a startled Lambert quipping, “We're really doing bad on this tour, Morgan!”

It's a fun, playful idea for a social media video, but most of the hate seems to be directed at Morgan Wallen, with followers implying Lambert either shouldn't be associating with him - perhaps because of his chequered past - or that she's too big to be an opener.

It therefore seems to be a somewhat peculiar choice to share this as promotion for the tour. Could it be a thinly veiled dig at her team's decision to put Miranda Lambert on the tour roster, rather than encouraging her to embark on her own run this year?

Elsewhere during the clip, while getting ready for a show, the Texan reads, “You are not a side dish. You're a main course”, “Miranda, you're just clinging to something popular so you can try to stay relevant” and “I'm further, further confused about why you'd be opening for anyone. You should be the headliner. What's going on?” To the latter, Lambert jovially responds, “It's not wrong, but it's not right”.

It's probably just an innocent way of highlighting how self-effacing Lambert is, and there's no question that the ‘Palomino’ icon remains one of the leading figures in country music.

Rather than indicating that Lambert's stature has in any way diminished, her placement on the 2025 I'm the Problem tour underlines just how massive Wallen has become.

At the end of the clip, Miranda Lambert jokes, “So there we go, thanks guys for the support. Appreciate it guys”. Regardless of the negativity in her comments section, we - and many others - can't wait to see Lambert teaming up with Wallen for an electric flurry of shows in Wisconsin, Arizona, Florida, California and more this summer.

If we're lucky, they might join forces on-stage again for another spellbinding take on ‘Thought You Should Know’, which the artists penned with Nicolle Galyon for Morgan Wallen's record-breaking 2023 album, One Thing At A Time. The duo performed the sweet, Mother's Day ode during Wallen's 2024 Neyland Stadium double-header.

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Written by Maxim Mower
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