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Miranda Selfie · Let's Ask the Mamas!

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  We got a question in for our American mama. Dear Mama, was Miranda
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  Lambert right to call out people at her concert for taking selfies? Well,
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  let's ask our American mama. Mama, Mama, and joining us now our
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  American mama, Terry Netterville Miranda Lambert. Have you ever met Miranda Lambert?
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  I've never met her, but I love her voice. I love her songs.
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  So just you know a little Miranda and I go back, do you?
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  Yeah? Tell me she used to watch me when I was on TV
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  in good Weather when she was nice school. Oh, because you were long
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  with you. I was in Tyler and she was just just north of Tyler.
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  Yeah. And as she was becoming famous, we had it. She
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  came up to the station and she was talking about how she loved watching us
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  on. Now I wasn't her favorite meteorologist. That would have been my boss.
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  My boss was her favorite. But I can you know that's my play
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  right, strange claims to face? Was she really down to earth and just
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  cool? Sweet sweet kid? Really just tale. She's like a hard working
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  country girl. Oh man, she was so excited. Yeah. And I
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  liked her parents too. I thought her parents were pretty pretty well grounded.
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  So that was just you know, brief and interaction. Did you know that
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  that song The House that Built Me was actually for Blake to record, but
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  she begged him for it, and you know, they were in love at
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  the time, so he's like, of course I didn't know that. Yeah,
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  And I always wonder now, like does he regret given that way?
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  That was a biggie. But I can't imagine anyone else thinking it behind her.
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  That was so just oh, just got wrenching, so lovely. So
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  she was at a concert and she stopped the concert. She no, she
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  wasn't add a concert. She was performing. It was her concert, right,
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  It's not like she was at adele or something, right, this was
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  her concert. She stops it because there are some people in the front road
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  taking selfies of each other, and she was like, no, no,
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  no, that's not what we're doing. We're trying to listen to good music
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  right now, and you guys aren't paying a ten into what's supposed to be
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  going on right here. Yeah, what do you think of this? I
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  you know, I gotta tell you that, first of all, I'm surprised.
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  I always imagine that they're on the stage and they can't really see they
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  know lights. So like when you were on stage when you were doing feel
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  her on the roof and I said, did you see me? You're like
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  no, the lights in my eyes, I didn't see where. I was
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  like, are you're giving me? I stood up at the end, right
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  and anyway, So I just I'm so surprised that she was so aware.
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  So I'm picturing you know, this generation is all about selfies. They do
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  TikTok's, they love to put stuff on social media. Yeah, but apparently
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  these girls were on the front road taking selfies. You know that you're in
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  the moment, but you're also trying to capture it because they're so exided.
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  So I really don't know how I feel about this. I love Miranda,
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  but I thought, whoa on TikTok you have fans that are on the side
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  of her, and the side of the fans, you have those who are
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  like, yeah, come on, just and stay in the moment, like
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  being the moment for once. Don't capture anything. Just live in the moment
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  without your phones and take it all in. And that was a great lesson
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  that maybe she was trying to, you know, give to the girls.
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  Yeah jump part on the girls. Um, so for her to stop the
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  show and kind of embarrass these girls who paid good money to go watch her
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  on the front. Ready, they got the clothes, they got ready.
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  I think, um, I wish that she had if she if she wants,
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  here's my thing, there's always a way, Right When Kevin I would
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  get fusses and it was maybe something lame, and he was like, what
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  is your problem? It's not what you said, is how you said it
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  to me? Okay? That really got me right. I wish that Miranda
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  had said something like, all right, I'm gonna stop this for a second,
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  and I love that you two are capturing this moment. I'm gonna let
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  you get a quick selfie of me in it. I'm gonna smile, And
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  then I would love for the audience put your phones away for a minute and
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  let's all be in this moment together and listen to the words of my song.
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  That to me, would have been a better way to handle that situation,
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  because she came across snotty. Sorry she did, yeah, And she
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  came across like she didn't appreciate her fans who paid good money to see her.
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  So that's my take. But I do understand that there are some like
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  on Twitter, you had some people saying, hey, we're with Miranda,
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  there's all the time in the world to we'retake in those activities during the route
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  or more up tempone numbers, but during her sacred ballots, because I think
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  the ballot at that time was ten man okay, you know, And so
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  maybe as a performer, she's trying to emote the song, trying to project
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  and she sees because because when you are on stage and you can see the
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  audience right, if they're not if they're not reacting to what you're putting out,
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  it really can't affect your performance. Well, you see that in Broadway
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  all the time when the phones first came out, right, and they would
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  literally stop the Broadway show right and say, uh, can somebody please turn
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  your phone off? Or you know, somebody's sleeping. You know, you
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  see videos where they're like, hey, can you wake him up? I
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  can actually hear him snoring, you know, so I could see where it
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  would affect. I just wish you would have handled it different. You know,
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  maybe I'm just different in that way because maybe there you know, there
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  are some people like, yeah, it's about time to stand up to the
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  selfie generation and tell them to partake in the moment. But I just think
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  there was a better way to handle it where everybody could have been on board,
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  including those two girls that were embarrassed. And frankly, I went to
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  a Duran Duran concert with my kids just a couple of weeks ago for Father's
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  Day, and yeah, we took a selfie before the band get up there.
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  But as the band was up there, I took pictures of them too,
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  so I can I can see both sides on this one as well.
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  thank you so much, thank you