Kacey Musgraves and Miranda Lambert End Beef With 37-Line Duet
Kacey Musgraves says the lambert feud is over, and she turned that thaw into a surprise duet with Miranda Lambert. Musgraves said the two had not been friends for years before writing the song, which she described as “grass-fed, grade A.”
Musgraves on Lambert
Musgraves said, “We’ve come together after years of really, honestly, not being friends.” She discussed the split in an interview with NPR, then laid out the blunt line that has now become the story’s center: “grass-fed, grade A.”
That is the rare country-music reconciliation that lands as both gossip and business. A public dust-up that had stayed in the background now gets turned into recorded material, and Musgraves is treating the collaboration as part of the album itself rather than a one-off stunt.
Horses and Divorces
Musgraves said the song started when she saw Lambert on Instagram riding one of her horses. “I had this idea one day when I saw her on Instagram, riding one of her horses, and I thought, ‘Well, I guess we have two things in common: horses and divorces,’” she said. She added, “And I was like, ‘Wait, that’s a song.’ Then I took it a step further: ‘What if I write it with her? What if it’s a duet? F--- it, I’m gonna reach out.’”
Musgraves said she had not spoken to Lambert in years before reaching out, then told her, “Look, I’m not trying to be your friend, but we should write this song at least.” Lambert’s answer was short: “I’m down.”
January Album Finish
Musgraves said the duet was the last song added to her album, which wrapped up in January. She also said the collaboration was not manufactured in a writing room: “I mean, it’s real and that’s why I love this song, because it’s not coming from some contrived place in a writing room,”
Musgraves performed at Stagecoach this month ahead of the release of her sixth studio album, Middle of Nowhere. The timing makes the Lambert duet a late-arriving but central piece of the album rollout, and it gives listeners one clear reason to hear the record start to finish rather than treat the track as a tabloid footnote.
2013 and After
Musgraves also recalled writing “Mama's Broken Heart,” the song Lambert recorded on her 2013 album Four the Record. That earlier connection gives the new duet a cleaner explanation than celebrity peace-making usually gets: these two already shared a songwriting history, then spent years apart, and now have put the reunion on tape.
