YOU WONT BELIEVE: Country superstar miranda lambert we could all be a little more like dolly parton - You Need To See This

Miranda Lambert knows the value of good advice. She received some gems from the late, great Dolly Parton, to whom she was compared early on as “another blonde beauty who was once underestimated”. In fact, they met while recording a duet version of Parton’s “Dumb Blonde” for the soundtrack to the 2018 comedy-drama film Dumplin’, when the queen of country offered some wise words Lambert would never forget. “I walk in the studio and there are cameras and lights and everything, and Dolly grabs my shoulders, says ‘nice to meet you’ and gives me a hug,” she recalls. “Then she turns me around and says, ‘Always find your good light first.’” Lambert uses that advice literally, whenever she finds herself under a spotlight, but more importantly in the everyday: “If I’m in a mood or someone pisses me off.”

Lambert has been kicking down the doors of country music for a long time, with great success. The Texas-born superstar spent most of the 2010s as one of the few women flying the flag in a scene dominated by male acts like Tim McGraw, Kenny Chesney, Toby Keith and Brad Paisley. Now, she’s proven instrumental in the rise of country newcomers like singer Ella Langley– with whom she wrote the year’s biggest hit, “Choosin’ Texas”. Thanks to that song, particularly, more two decades into her career Lambert’s own music is being discovered by a whole new generation of fans. Next month, these achievements will be acknowledged at the Country Music Association Awards in Nashville, where she and Langley are the most-nominated artists of the year. Suffice to say, things are going pretty well.