Miranda Lambert still writes sad songs, despite her “Hallmark movie” marriage: “You don’t have to be tortured”

Miranda Lambert’s written her fair share of breakup songs — from the trigger-happy “Kerosene” to the heartbroken “Tinman” — and there’s plenty of lonely, love-gone-wrong material on her new album, Palomino, too.

The difference? This time around, Miranda’s not living what she writes. In 2019, the singer tied the knot with her famously dreamy — and frequently shirtless — former NYPD officer boyfriend, Brendan McLoughlin. Now, the two enjoy a relationship that the singer says is every bit the fairy tale it seems.

“It’s like some kind of Hallmark movie or something,” Miranda admits in the latest installment of CBS Sunday Morning.

“This redneck from Texas meets this, like, beautiful NYPD officer on the street in New York. But it actually happened that way,” she continues.

But as her personal happiness blossomed, Miranda never worried that her art might suffer.

“Sometimes artists live in darkness, and use it for their art, or whatever…but you know, you don’t have to be tortured to be good. You can write a sad song and not have to live every sad song you ever write,” Miranda points out.

“It’s an impossible way to live,” she adds.

Palomino came out on Friday.