As a big fan of Miranda Lambert, I’m always eager to hear of
new singles, but each time she surprises me with her (or her label’s) choice. ‘All
Kinds of Kinds’ is not what I would have picked, and I would have expected
commercial soft rock love ballads like ‘Safe’ or ‘Better In The Long Run’,
although personally I’m glad they have been left unreleased. As a fifth single
from her award-winning album ‘Four The Record’, ‘All Kinds of Kinds’ may be
destined to trail off in the charts, and perhaps not be promoted as much as it
should while Miranda focuses on recording the new album.

It’s certainly an interesting choice, that may lay the
ground for Kacey Musgraves to finally release ‘Follow Your Arrow’. Written by Phillip Coleman and Don Henry and championing
the different types of people that inhabit this Earth, Miranda sweetly sings
about cross-dressing congressmen, prescription drug addicts and people covered
in tattoos as nonchalantly as a country singer could. It’s a positive message,
one that opens the album and opens the floodgates for the colourful characters
that inhabit her songs. However, it does prefer to couch its message of equality
in circus imagery and fantasy, rather than direct comparisons with the real
world (for the most part), and she missed a vital opportunity to come out in
support of gay rights, among other things.

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