Accolades PublicationĪll tracks produced by Frank Liddell, Eric Masse, and Glenn Worf. It marks Lambert's fifth consecutive album to win the award, a record for any artist or group.
The Weight of These Wings won the award for Album of the Year at the 2017 ACM Awards. Stephen Thomas Erlewine from AllMusic rated the album at five out of five and in his review stated "It may have mainstream songs, but The Weight of These Wings isn't produced like a country-pop album, so it demands attention and rewards close listening." Paul Grein of HITS Daily Double predicted the album to be in contention for Album of the Year at the 60th Annual Grammy Awards.
At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has an average score of 81 out of 100, which indicates "universal acclaim" based on 11 reviews. The Weight of These Wings received widespread acclaim from music critics.
SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION LYRICS MIRANDA LAMBERT PROFESSIONAL
Critical reception Professional ratings Aggregate scores "Keeper of the Flame" was released as the fourth single on April 16, 2018. It peaked in the Top 20 of the Hot Country Songs chart, and the Top 30 of the Country Airplay chart. " Tin Man" was released as the third single on April 3, 2017, immediately following Lambert's acoustic performance of the song on 52nd Academy of Country Music Awards. It was a Top 30 hit on the Hot Country Songs and Country Airplay charts. " We Should Be Friends" was released as the second single on December 12, 2016. As of March 2017, the song has sold 508,000 copies in the United States. It ultimately reached a peak of number 11 on the Country Airplay chart. In its first week it sold 64,000 copies and debuted (and peaked) at number 2 on the Hot Country Songs chart. " Vice" was released as the album's lead single on July 18, 2016. The album was released on November 18, 2016, through RCA Records Nashville. The album's content is about her divorce with Blake Shelton and her subsequent relationship with Anderson East. This became a road song with the word "vagabond" at the center, with a production sounding like country Siouxsie and the Banshees. He found the line "I want to go somewhere nobody knows and I want to know somewhere that nobody goes" while waiting at a deli and not willing to mix with other people. He co-wrote "Highway Vagabond" with Natalie Hemby and Shane McAnally. Songwriter Luke Dick was one of the musicians who worked on the album. She admitted she was nervous about her new music since she had mostly stayed quiet while writing it. In an August 2016 interview with Billboard, Lambert stated she had been working on the album for a year, which included writing and recording.