{"id":5367,"date":"2015-10-08T07:00:21","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T12:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/?p=5367"},"modified":"2015-10-05T14:00:36","modified_gmt":"2015-10-05T19:00:36","slug":"what-am-and-miranda-lambert-have-in-common","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/2015\/10\/08\/what-am-and-miranda-lambert-have-in-common\/","title":{"rendered":"What A&amp;M and Miranda Lambert Have in Common"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2007, Miranda Lambert released her song \u201cCrazy Ex-Girlfriend\u201d, a classic story about an insanely jealous, gun toting ex girlfriend stalking her boyfriend and throwing things at him in a bar. All of this is completely normal, apparently. And she\u2019s honestly kind of proud of it.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Crazy Ex-Girlfriend-Miranda Lambert\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sdFrRGLyXz4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>While I can\u2019t say I really identify with Miranda in this situation, it\u2019s still a pretty entertaining song. It\u2019s probably how ridiculous the whole idea is that makes it so good, not many people know what its like to go to 30 bars to try and find your ex boyfriend just to get drunk and throw things at him. But yet it\u2019s so easy to picture it happening that listeners can still relate to it. It also helps to realize what not to do after a breakup, no matter how bad the other person messed up.<\/p>\n<p>We all have some sort of crazy ex though; the one that just can\u2019t seem to get over you. Most likely you haven\u2019t been stalked and assaulted by your ex, but there\u2019s always that one that\u2019s just a little crazy. Usually it just means they can\u2019t stop calling or texting you or even the ones that keep showing up in your life trying to get back with you.<\/p>\n<p>The closest experience I have to this song would be being a UT student and interacting with Texas A&amp;M students. In this situation, the A&amp;M students are the crazy ex. It\u2019s been almost 4 years since these two teams last played each other, and since A&amp;M was beat by the amazing Texas Longhorns. And yet, they still can\u2019t seem to get over us.<\/p>\n<p>To this day, they refer to The University of Texas as \u201cTU\u201d, which is apparently a huge insult. They\u2019re so into hating on us that they even sing about us in their fight song, saying \u201c\u2019They eyes of Texas are upon you\u2019\/That is the song they sing so well\/So goodbye to Texas University\/We\u2019re going to beat you all to.\u201d This song screams \u201ccraxy ex-girlfriend\u201d over and over again, just like at the end of Miranda\u2019s song.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d say the fact that they feel so strongly about us to incorporate us into their school song says a lot about their sanity levels. But its not just the song that makes them the crazy ex in this relationship, it\u2019s the fact that after 4 years of not playing each other they still sing it. In the words of Mariah Carey, \u201cwhy you so obsessed with me?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2015\/10\/MC-giphy.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5368\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2015\/10\/MC-giphy-300x160.gif\" alt=\"MC giphy\" width=\"300\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The cult that is Texas A&amp;M literally breeds their students to hate UT, while UT students somehow manage to find other things to concern themselves with. Meanwhile, Miranda is following her ex around with a pistol and physically assaulting him while he\u2019s just trying to mind his own business. Maybe these two aren\u2019t exactly equivalent, but you get the picture. Hopefully A&amp;M can learn to get over us one day, and Miranda can learn to leave the gun at home after a breakup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2007, Miranda Lambert released her song \u201cCrazy Ex-Girlfriend\u201d, a classic story about an insanely jealous, gun toting ex girlfriend stalking her boyfriend and throwing things at him in a bar. All of this is completely normal, apparently. 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