The silvery-white metal looks as good on Miranda Lambert as it does on her records and inside Thompson-Boling Arena.
The country songstress brought her “Certified Platinum Tour” to Knoxville Friday night along with special guests RaeLynn and Justin Moore.
In the male-dominated country music industry, full of tight blue jeans and baseball caps, there just a few females who truly compete with their male counterparts. Lambert does more than just compete though by combining sparkly, sass-filled tunes with fiery, female-empowerment country songs.
And she didn’t fail to bring these elements along with her – with a side of glitter, of course.
From the colossal on-stage platinum frame and the enormous spinning disco balls to the images of fire and smoke rising from behind the country queen, Lambert balanced both her tough-girl country attributes with her love for shiny details.
But it wasn’t just her shimmering persona that brought the crowd to its feet – Lambert is still a country artist who excels in vocals and overall entertainment.
As the lights dimmed and the glow of the metal frame ignited, Lambert came through the gates with her iconic pink guitar in hand and vocals blazing as she opened the show with “Fastest Girl In Town.”
Amongst her boot-stomping dance moves and guitar strumming, her vocals proved most impressive, leaving no one to wonder how she won female vocalist of the year in 2014 at the CMAs.
Apart from shining visual effects and award-winning vocals, Lambert truly needed nothing more than her laundry list of hits to indulge the crowd in the country queen-themed evening.
Lambert threw in her newest (and possibly some of the sassiest and egocentric to date) songs such as the title track “Platinum,” “Priscilla,” the Elvis and Priscilla themed tune, which ended with the songstress holding up her enormous diamond encrusted wedding ring, and the highly entertaining “Little Red Wagon.”
But it was Lambert’s older, country-heavy hits such as “Kerosene,” “Mama’s Broken Heart,”” White Liar” and “Gunpowder and Lead” that really fired up the crowd.
However, the Texas native slowed the fueled-up atmosphere with slower ballads such as “House That Built Me” and “Over You,” which proved even more depth in Lambert’s shining vocals.
It was Lambert’s chance to let her feisty tunes and impressive vocals shine – and this sparkle looks to be one that won’t wear off any time soon.