Miranda Lambert Cries After ACM Wins

Posted by Amy Brownfield on 04/20/2010
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Sunday night proved to be a memorable evening for Miranda Lambert when the Country star took home three prizes at the Academy of Country Music Awards. Lambert won the Top Female Vocalist award, Video of the Year for her song “White Liar” as well as Album of the Year for Revolution. This was Lambert’s second Album of the Year win, marking the first time a female solo artist has won it twice.
 
Backstage Lambert told reporters, "You get to see the fruit of what you're doing from the fans every weekend. They come out to the shows, they buy tickets, they come to meet-and-greets, they're out there singing at the top of their lungs to every word to your songs. It's amazing. But you don't see, until something like this happens, what your peers in the industry think of you. It's really emotional. It's really overwhelming. I never cry, but I cried tonight. You cracked me, people! It's unbelievable. I'm shocked and overwhelmed.”
 
Lambert also explained how pleased she was to see many of her close friends win awards, including boyfriend Blake Shelton and other friends Luke Bryan, Lady Antebellum and Carrie Underwood.
 
"It is so much fun to be sitting here at this awards show and be so genuinely happy for people that win because they're your friends," she said. "I think we're the only genre that is genuinely family. We really are not catty. We really are happy for each other, and it's such a great thing to be a part of."

During the show, Lambert performed her new single, “The House That Built Me.” Afterwards, she explained that this was, “one of the most special songs ever written.”

"I'm so lucky that I got my hands on it because I know any other artist would have scooped it up," she said of the song written by Tom Douglas and Allen Shamblin. "It makes me mad that I didn't think of it! Being a songwriter, I never had a reaction to a song like I did with 'The House That Built Me.' I cried for three hours when I heard it. It felt like someone wrote my life in a song, and that's how everyone feels when they hear it. That's one of those timeless, amazing songs that people will relate to for years and years because everybody has a place where they grew up -- a place that made them who they are. I am so blessed and thanking the Lord that I got it!"
 
Source: CMT.com