Miranda Lambert and Chris Stapleton Serve Major ’70s Vibes in ‘A Song To Sing’ Music Video
They continued to channel Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers, borrowing jewelry from their estates.
Chris Stapleton, Miranda Lambert; Photo by Andy Barron
Miranda Lambert and Chris Stapleton take fans on a groovy trip to the 1970s in the just-released music video for their first-ever duet, “A Song To Sing.”
The clip features the duo performing at the Brentwood Skate Center, just south of Nashville, decked out in matching terracotta suits. Surrounded by people skating around to the beat, Lambert and Stapleton fully embrace the 70s vibe, bringing the era to life with every note.
Lambert previously shared that the song has them channeling their inner Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers, and for the video, they took it a step further, borrowing jewelry from the legends’ estates. Lambert wore a pair of Parton’s gold clip-on hoop earrings, while Stapleton sported a lion necklace that belonged to Rogers.
Fans will also spot Morgane Stapleton (in gold lamé) making a cameo in the video, which was directed by Running Bear and produced by James Stratakis.
While fans just got to hear the duet this summer, Lambert recently revealed that it was actually written a few years ago during a recent conversation with Cody Alan on SiriusXM’s The Highway. She says they were simply waiting for the right time to release it.
“I had a date with Jesse Frazier and he randomly reached out to Chris kind of last minute and was like, ‘Hey, you wouldn’t happen to be around today? Me and Miranda are just writing for kind of fun,’” she recalled.
Lambert, who gave credit to Frazier for helping her to step outside her comfort zone, said Stapleton texted him back and that got things into motion.
“And Chris was available, so he came over and he actually, Jenee Fleenor, who is an amazing fiddle player, sort of her and Jesse had worked on this track and sort of got this groovy kind of 70s thing going. So she wasn’t in the room that day, but her parts really drove this beat,” she explained. “And, we wrote two songs that day, but it’s been around for like a couple of years. It just wasn’t time, I guess we couldn’t really figure out what project it fit on or where it should go.”
The music video for “A Song To Sing” follows the biggest streaming debut of Lambert’s career, amassing over 3.3 million U.S. streams and more than 4.3 million global streams in its first week. The track also exceeded 27,000 in U.S. track consumption. Co-written by Lambert, Stapleton, Jesse Frasure, and Jenee Fleenor, and produced by Dave Cobb, the song also claimed the No. 1 spot on the Country Digital Song Sales chart.
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