Disco meets country thanks to Miranda Lambert. Today, she released a new single called “Crisco,” very much pulls from both disco and country and makes for a very nostalgic song unlike anything else in her catalog.
Miranda recently announced that she will release future music with MCA, marking a new chapter in her decorated recording career. Miranda was previously with Republic for a couple of years, and MCA has an impressive roster of country artists, so it’s clear she’s ready to get back to a Nashville-based label and continue her commitment to the creative community and roots that have long shaped her artistry.
Miranda is now be label mates with George Strait, Chris Stapleton, Sam Hunt, Luke Bryan, Carrie Underwood, and Reba McEntire, and she will fit right in and certainly be an asset to an already-impressive group of artists.
Miranda most recently put out her most recent album Postcards from Texas in 2024, and she’s been working with Ella Langley to write and produce her monster new album Dandelion, where she’s also featured on a duet called “Butterfly Season,” in addition to appearing on Kacey Musgraves’ highly-anticipated album for a duet called “Horses and Divorces,” which I have not stopped listening to.
This is her first release with MCA, and she wrote “Crisco” with Aaron Raitiere, Jesse Frasure and Chill Fellacheck. Miranda says she included a lot of country elements she’s never “put on tape before,” and it’s meant to be a fun, and maybe a little nostalgic, song that fans can simply enjoy for what it is without overthinking anything:
“It has so many elements of the country music that I love that I’ve never put on tape. There’s a looseness to it, a joy. It feels like dancing in your kitchen with the person you love, spinning old records, not overthinking a thing.”
She adds that it was a unique challenge to make a song that was “familiar” and “Fresh” at the same time, and of course, she was deeply inspired by the likes of Glen Campbell, Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers and that 70s and 80s time when those artists in particular were fusing in a lot of disco:
“We wanted something that feels familiar but also fresh, which is really hard to do. We leaned into all the things I grew up loving about country music – Glen Campbell, Kenny and Dolly; very ’70s and ’80s.
It’s a fun mix of all these sides of country music that I’ve never fully explored before, even down to using strings in a bigger way. I almost can’t believe I’ve made this many records without really going there, but it was magical to hear how much strings can transform a song.”
I love 70s and 80s-era music of any kind, and really any genre, so I love that she’s playing with that here. From iconic songs like “Southern Nights” and of course “Islands in the Stream,” it’s nothing new for disco to be part of country. I mean, who could forget the whole Urban Cowboy scene? But I’m here for it because Miranda is the kind of artist who can do it and do it well. It won’t be for everybody, but I can appreciate her trying something new and going in a different direction with this new chapter.
The chorus pretty much sums it up:
“Baby, we’ve been cooking with Crisco
Ain’t we mixin’ country and disco
Stir it around, give it a spin
And it’s a rhinestone world we’re livin’ in…”
Miranda teamed up with Chris Stapleton for a very disco-inspired duet called “A Song To Sing” last year, which seems to have been a hint about what she had up her sleeve and I have a feeling there might be more where this came from.
It is the most heart-wrenching, poetic song she’s ever put out? No, but it’s fun, and catchy, and obviously groovy because disco is just fun and I really enjoy it from that standpoint.
They actually filmed the “Crisco” video on Miranda’s birthday and she got a bedazzled Crisco cake which I am very much here for:
It’s a new era of Miranda Lambert, and she’s ready to go full-disco with a whole lot of twang… check it out:
“Crisco”
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