Hi all!
I know it’s been a while since I have expressed any of my
recent thoughts and I’m truly sorry about that. In short, I ended the hectic semester
with a 3.3 GPA and I visited Steph Galvin’s family in Omaha, Nebraska. I am
thankful for those individuals who forced me to study, because without them,
well, I wouldn’t be satisfied with my GPA. Omaha was interesting, the trip was
wonderful, I visited with Steph’s amazing family and took tons of pictures.
Tonight I was planning on talking about this new idea I came up with for the
summer, but instead, I want to talk about something I got to experience while I was in
Nebraska.
I went to see Miranda Lambert in concert.
Now that statement alone should make every reader jealous. Anyway,
if you don’t know who Miranda Lambert is, shame on you, you should click on her highlighted name to visit her website. She is a very
successful and gorgeous country music star who stays true to herself. Someone that every woman, country fan or not
should look up to, Miranda sings her heart out to express herself and her lyrics
touch the hearts of so many women going through the same struggles in life. Yes,
country artists like Carrie Underwood, Taylor Swift and Martina Mcbride also do
this, however I prefer Miranda. Talk about a real person who
expresses all of her emotions and embraces her experiences as well as her culture
(country is a culture). Miranda got up on stage with her crystal light and
Bacardi, her pink electric guitar and her pink microphone and sang some of her
most amazing songs. Some of her songs make you angry, some make you cry, either
way in the end they all put a smile on your face because she is on stage
smiling back at you. Miranda Lambert has a song titled “Over You” she wrote it
with her hubby, Blake Shelton, and it was their first number 1 together. Even
though this song is terribly sad, as I watched her perform the song in front of
the Omaha crowd, her voice and her presence made me feel what she felt. Now
that is talent. At the end of the song, she teared up, i teared up but I smiled because I was
amazed and blown away by her ability to make me feel like I knew what she was
going through. On the opposite end of the spectrum, “Kerosene” was written out
of pure anger, and let me tell you, every girl in that stadium was angry at
somethin’ during this song. Screams and hootin’ and hollerin’ came from all
directions. Women should never be afraid to show their true colors sometime and
I think Miranda Lambert stands by that whole heartedly. Because of that belief
she has gained so much respect from women and men. Finally, Miranda sang a new
song that I was blown away by, and really left me thinking. Her song “All Kinds of Kinds” should be something we all listen to and learn from. (please click on the song titles to watch the music video!)
Even though her examples were extreme, her point was something
we all need to understand. Over the past school year I have met a lot of
different people. At the end of the day, I got through school, and I got
through a rough day because of those people. I think her song is a statement
showing us our uniqueness and our differences keep the world
spinning. It’s not right to be close minded and ignorant to society when there
is so much to learn in the world. We all sing our own tune and walk to a
different beat of a drum, but doesn’t that make us who we are? If everyone was
the same how boring would our world be? Anyways, I just wanted to point out
that Miranda Lambert is a smart woman, she fights for what she believes in and I have a lot of respect for her. I would like to
encourage everyone this summer to walk to their own symphony; be curious and
learn from others, make new friends, and try new things, because that’s how the
world keeps spinning.
Thanks for reading!!
Sarah Ann Weaver
