Miranda Lambert and Chris Stapleton joined forces to deliver their first duet, a dreamy and groovy ballad titled “A Song To Sing.”
“A Song To Sing” is a classic country love song with a 70s-inspired music video that features matching suits, roller skates and even a heart shaped disco ball. The video presents the two country giants in matching terracotta pantsuits throughout Brentwood Skate Center, a roller skating rink, in Brentwood, TN.
The songs take listeners through a plethora of emotions experienced in the highs and lows of a relationship. “A Song To Sing” encapsulates feelings felt in the “honeymoon phase” of a new romance that has managed to last throughout the entire relationship. Lambert and Stapleton tap into a funky and experimental disco-like sound, with harmonized vocals and groovy chord progressions that stimulate a 70s feel.
“You are a part of me / Baby, you’re the heart of me / Together, we can write a song to sing / And, in that melody / Baby, you’re the harmony that you just can’t find anywhere,” Lambert and Stapleton sing on the chorus of the track.
The intertwining vocals throughout the track reference the outlaw country era from Ronnie Milsap, Waylon Jennings and the classic duo Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers. Co-written by Jesse Frasure and Jenee Fleenor, and produced by Dave Cobb, the track’s musical components are in line with the 1983 release “Islands in the Stream” by Parton and Rogers.
In a recent interview with SiriusXM The Highway, Lambert opened up about her and Stapleton channeling their inner Dolly and Kenny.
“I got to just hang in Savannah for a couple of days with the Stapleton’s and drink some wine and cut a record that to channel our inner Kenny and Dolly, you know what I mean,” she told the radio host. “It was really fun. It was like on our group text, like the memes we keep sending are all the Kenny and Dolly, you know, we really wanted to like, we wanted to fully go there, and I feel like we did and paid homage to our heroes.”
The gold clip-on hoops seen on Lambert and the lion necklace on Stapleton are original pieces from Rogers’ and Parton’s estates. The grainy and highly saturated color grading seen in the video allows viewers to travel back in time. Aesthetic shots of roller skates and the roller rink send music fans back to a time when pop and country began to overlap over one another in the late 60s and early 70s.
Glamorous, vintage jewelry is not the only flashy outcome of this collaboration. “A Song To Sing” quickly became Lambert’s biggest streaming debut of her career, with more than 3.3 million U.S. streams and over 4.3 million streams globally in its first week, while arriving at No. 1 on the Country Digital Song Sales chart.
The pair of country superstars got to perform the track for the first-time ever live at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles. Produced by Grammy-winning Dave Cobb, “A Song To Sing” officially impacted country radio on July 14.
Lambert and Stapleton are long-time members of the country music community, having shaped generations of music. Both artists have a combined 14 Grammy, 33 Country Music Association and 59 Academy of Country Music awards.
“A Song To Sing” is Lambert’s first single since the release of her 10th solo studio album, Postcards from Texas, which continued her streak of 10 consecutive Top 10s on the Top Country Albums chart. With seven No. 1 solo albums and 10 No. 1 hit radio singles, Lambert is no stranger to being a successful superstar.
