Miranda Lambert treated fans at the 2025 Academy of Country Music Awards to a two-song concert after skipping the red carpet.
Lambert, 41, was noticeably absent from the photo line prior to the Thursday, May 8, at Ford Center in Frisco, Texas. While the singer didn’t pose for pictures, she did heat up the stage with two performances.
Lambert kicked off her set with “Run” from her 2024 album, Postcards From Texas, wearing a bright pink jacket with fringe sleeves and jeans with pink embroidery.
The country singer was then joined by Ella Langley for a rocking rendition of Lambert’s 2005 hit “Kerosene,” which turned 20 this year. As the fierce females set the stage on fire, literally, they belted out the high notes for adoring fans.
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While the crowd sang along, eagle-eyed fans noticed that Lambert’s husband, Brendan McLoughlin, was hidden among the audience in support of his partner. Lambert’s ex-husband, Blake Shelton, meanwhile, also performed later in the show.
The former couple were married from 2011 to 2015. He has since moved on with wife Gwen Stefani, while Lambert tied the knot with McLoughlin in 2019.
Lambert, who lives on a 400-acre farm outside of Nashville with McLoughlin, opened up exclusively to Us Weekly in 2024 about their private life.
“We’re pretty chill. When we’re off work, I’m in my patio hang vibe,” she exclusively told Us in her September cover story. “We’ll make drinks and listen to music. Sometimes we’ll have the best parties just by ourselves. He loves what he calls ‘happy hour music’ — Matchbox Twenty and Goo Goo Dolls. So we have different tastes, but we’ll sit there for hours and listen. Sometimes I say to him, ‘We kind of live on a date,’ which is pretty awesome.”
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Lambert, who released latest album Postcards From Texas in 2024, revealed how McLouglin wound up cowriting the track “Dammit Randy.”
“We were at our house in Austin, and Brendan was watching football and Jon got the guitar out. Brendan was listening and kept piping in here and there with some ideas, and we’re like, ‘Are we cowriting? You’re going to have to turn the game off,’” she recalled. “So he did, and he had some of my favorite lines in the song. It’s his first cut ever on an album. I’m actually really proud of him, and he’s super excited about it.”
Lambert quipped that McLoughlin is now putting “songwriter” on his bio. “I’m like, ‘Slow your roll,’” she teased.
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While McLoughlin isn’t a singer himself (he’s a former NYPD officer), Lambert noted that her husband sings at karaoke.
“He’s a music lover in general, which is fun because he’s not in the industry, but he loves it and is also very honest. It’s nice to have somebody in your life that’s like, ‘No, that sucks. That doesn’t look good on you. That song is my favorite,’” she said. “It keeps it real, especially him being a New Yorker, they don’t mince words.”
