Miranda Lambert Releases “Kerosene” Inspired Video for “Wranglers”

Twenty-one years after signing with Sony/Epic Records, Miranda Lambert – the Grammy-winning and most awarded artist from the Academy of Country Music in history – has a video to pair with her breakout success with “Wranglers,” his first album since announcing his new partnership with Republic Records with strategic support from Nashville-based Big Loud Records, four months ago.

In just under six weeks, “Wranglers” became Lambert’s first streaming film of his career. She also performed at the recent Stagecoach Festival and the Academy of Country Music Awards. Additionally, five weeks after charting on Billboard’s country radio charts, it made the top 40.

Lambert assembled with a team outside of Austin, Texas – where she worked at the famed Arlyn Recording Studios alongside her Big Loud Texas co-founder and award-winning songwriter/producer GRAMMY Jon Randall – for a video directed by his longtime collaborator Trey Fanjoy (CMA Music Video of the Year winners “The House That Built Me” and “Bluebird”) that features his childhood best friend, Laci (who also appeared in the music video for “White Liar”) as well as actress Elle Lamont (also in “If I Were a Cowboy”), as well as Jessica Stroup (“90210”, “The Following”, “Jack Reacher,” “Iron Fist”) and Christopher Backus (“Big Little Lies,” “Mindhunter,” “Jett”).

“’Wranglers’ is the classic story of a woman taking her power back,” Lambert says.

“I think we can all relate to the character in this video because we have all experienced a time in our lives where we needed to find our strength and get a little revenge on someone who had hurt us or had hurt us. It offers such a cool and angry take on how something like this plays out; I am so proud to sing this song.

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The video recalls Lambert’s 2005 hit, “Kerosene,” as she sets a less-than-standing lover’s Wranglers on fire while wearing a pair of her own branded Idyllwind jeans.

The gas can used to fuel the flames is a replica of his first kerosene can and the matchbox is the exact one used in the “Kerosene” video shoot.

“After being the go-to woman for tenderness and toughness in the face of bad men for nearly two decades, she continues to make music that speaks to the hearts of women who love hard, live out loud and don’t have afraid of how they face the world around them,” a press release added.