Post by Admin on Feb 24, 2020 1:06:43 GMT
Miranda Lambert scored a recording deal and shot to fame after competing on the first season of Nashville Star in 2003, but in a new interview, she admitted that doing the show was very intimidating, and she actually failed her initial audition.
Lambert was on hand for a lengthy one-on-one interview in front of an industry-only audience as part of the 2020 Country Radio Seminar in Nashville on Wednesday (Feb. 19), and she revealed that when she first auditioned for the USA Network reality singing competition, her heart wasn't really in it, and she didn't get very far into the audition process.
Her mother, Bev, was upset with her afterward, pointing out that she'd been giving up her own time to drive Lambert around to gigs and auditions, only to see her not try her best. She insisted that her daughter audition again in another city, and Lambert sang "Crazy" in her second audition, winning her way onto the show.
Lambert had never even flown on an airplane at the time, and she admits she was very intimidated just by the thought of going to the airport, much less leaving her small-town Texas roots and flying to Nashville to compete on a nationally televised show.
"I was so scared of the DFW [Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport]. How am I going to navigate this?" Lambert recounted. "I have to land in Nashville and live in a house with 10 strangers. I basically treated it like moving into a dorm, I guess. That's what it was. I just thought, 'I have to give it my all. I'm here, I've made it, I'm going to try.'"
"When the show started, the first episode, I was the first contestant to do the first song, on the first episode," she revealed. "I was the youngest by 10 years. It was like, 'Oh, this is fair.'"
Lambert was on hand for a lengthy one-on-one interview in front of an industry-only audience as part of the 2020 Country Radio Seminar in Nashville on Wednesday (Feb. 19), and she revealed that when she first auditioned for the USA Network reality singing competition, her heart wasn't really in it, and she didn't get very far into the audition process.
Her mother, Bev, was upset with her afterward, pointing out that she'd been giving up her own time to drive Lambert around to gigs and auditions, only to see her not try her best. She insisted that her daughter audition again in another city, and Lambert sang "Crazy" in her second audition, winning her way onto the show.
Lambert had never even flown on an airplane at the time, and she admits she was very intimidated just by the thought of going to the airport, much less leaving her small-town Texas roots and flying to Nashville to compete on a nationally televised show.
"I was so scared of the DFW [Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport]. How am I going to navigate this?" Lambert recounted. "I have to land in Nashville and live in a house with 10 strangers. I basically treated it like moving into a dorm, I guess. That's what it was. I just thought, 'I have to give it my all. I'm here, I've made it, I'm going to try.'"
"When the show started, the first episode, I was the first contestant to do the first song, on the first episode," she revealed. "I was the youngest by 10 years. It was like, 'Oh, this is fair.'"