When you know, you know. And it sounds like Miranda was ready to take the leap of faith, even though to most people, getting married after only dating (and knowing) someone for three months sounds kinda crazy. She's been married to Brendan McLoughlin since 2019, when the pair secretly wed in January at a farm near Nashville. She later share the news on Instagram, though kept everything very quiet up until that point and non one even really knew they were dating. https://www.instagram.com/p/Bt9bYU5gOa2/?img_index=2
They met when Miranda was doing a segment with her girl band Pistol Annies on
Good Morning America , and McLoughlin was working security (he's a retired NYPD cop) and the rest, as they say, is history. And in a new, wide-ranging interview with
US Weekly in the lead up to the release of her forthcoming album
Postcards From Texas , Miranda talked about how she was ready to take the leap of faith, because she'd already been through a divorce and failed marriage before (with fellow country artist Blake Shelton), so the risk didn't scare her this time around:
"I kind of went for it; no risk, no reward. I grew up in a family of first responders with cops and firemen. That gave me trust to begin with. Texas people are very much who they are, like, 'Y’all come on in, but if you don’t like us, we really don’t care.' That New York mentality is the same, except they’re not as sweet about it. I just felt like the worst that could happen, I’ve lived through. If it ends, it ends. If you don’t put your heart out there, are you ever going to get the big love that everybody wants, that all the songs are about, that all the movies are about? I’m guarded in a lot of ways, but when it comes to my heart, I’m like, what do you really have to lose? Pain is pain, but it passes." And honestly, she's really making the case and I totally get it... and seeing as they've been married for quite a few years now, it's seemingly worked out for her and Brendan. Miranda added that there was an adjustment period when he first moved to Nashville and retired from the NYPD, which also happened right before the COVID pandemic which she called a "blessing":
"It’s just been a lot because he moved to Nashville. He retired as a police officer, and that’s an adjustment. There was just a lot of new at once, and that’s hard on anyone. We were figuring out life. 2020 actually was a blessing in that way because we were stuck at home together and really got to know each other without all the noise." It sounds like Brendan might have the songwriting bug now too, because he's listed as a co-writer and helped pen "Dammit Randy," one of the pre-released singles from the album, which you can read more about
HERE .
Postcards From Texas is due out everywhere next Friday, September 13th.
"Dammit Randy" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_lbvEAuBuQ
Postcards from Texas Tracklist: “Armadillo” (Aaron Raitiere, Jon Decious, Parker Twomey) “Dammit Randy” (Miranda Lambert, Brendan McLoughlin, Jon Randall) “Looking Back on Luckenbach” (Miranda Lambert, Shane McAnally, Natalie Hemby) “Santa Fe” feat. Parker McCollum (Miranda Lambert, Jesse Frasure, Jessie Jo Dillon, Dean Dillon) “January Heart” (Brent Cobb, Neil Medley) “Wranglers” (Audra Mae, Evan McKeever, Ryan Carpenter) “Run” (Miranda Lambert) “Alimony” (Miranda Lambert, Natalie Hemby, Shane McAnally) “I Hate Love Songs” (Miranda Lambert, Jack Ingram, Jon Randall) “No Man’s Land” (Miranda Lambert, Luke Dick) “Bitch On The Sauce (Just Drunk)” (Miranda Lambert, Jaren Johnston) “Way Too Good At Breaking My Heart” (Miranda Lambert, Jon Randall, Jesse Frasure, Jenee Fleenor) “Wildfire” (Miranda Lambert, Jack Ingram, Jon Randall) “Living On The Run” (David Allen Coe, Jimmy L. Howard)
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