Country artist Miranda Lambert, the twangy, ultimate mean-girl comeback and dropped a 1950s-inspired video for her sassy anthem new single, "Only Prettier," the fourth single from her ACM Album of the Year "Revolution," and She chose Lady Antebellum's Hillary Scott, Kellie Pickler and newcomer Laura Bell Bundy for this mini-movie features the artists dressed up as rival "socials" and "greasers" at a high school sock hop. The four sharp-mouthed singer's best girl friends played two rival cliques of girls, one group is prim and proper; the other is bad and looking for trouble."Only Prettier," co-written by Lambert and Natalie Hemby, is an up-tempo song, backed by electric and steel guitars and percussion. The song's female narrator, a typical rough-and-rowdy country girl, finds herself facing off with a stereotypical model-thin city girl. Lambert relates to the song as her own anthem: "It’s antagonistic in a fun way, and I loved the attitude behind it. It kind of fools you, because it’s got this really country, laid-back intro, but then it’s balls-to-the-wall the rest of the way. It’s so much fun!" Laying on her thick Texas twang, Lambert's voice cuts through a thick fog of smoke and catty comments. once again, Lambert has bent the iron-clad rules of radio to bring us sharp material like this.
Lambert straps her guitar and performs as a house band in Trey Fanjoy-directed video, which was shot against a 1950's rockabilly backdrop at a middle school gymnasium in Joelton, Tennessee in June. The girls play "two rival cliques of girls" when walking into a high school sock hop, but put aside their difference at the end of the party, and the party is over. "To me, 'Only Prettier' is an anthem," Lambert said. "It's my own anthem, and I want girls to have their fists in the air singing 'Only Prettier.' It's antagonistic, in a fun way, and I loved the attitude behind it. It kind of fools you, because it's got this really country, laid-back intro, but then it's balls to the wall the rest of the way." The part of what makes country music is great is that it doesn't take itself too seriously, and this video is no exception.
What makes "Prettier" so smart is that it owns up to the insecurities of young girls, including her own, while admitting how silly they really are. Lambert's hard-earned lesson seems like a winning strategy for rising Nashville stars, but it's also sound advice for the next time her friends brace for a collision with their barroom rivals. Lambert, a three-time Grammy nominee, platinum-selling recording artist, amid the growing buzz surrounding her career, remains convincing as a country outlaw, and that's a testament to her enormous talent.
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