“I’m so excited! I was ready for new music,” Lambert, 35, told ET’s Nischelle Turner on Saturday, just moments before debuting a new song during the four-day festival. “It’s fun! I’m finishing the record right now and it’s just high energy — it’s fun lyrics, it’s clever, it’s a lot of girl anthems.”
“I’m really excited about it,” she added. “The [song] I’m doing tonight, I’ve never sang it before in front of people. So, it’ll be the first time. It’s called ‘Locomotive,’ and it’s like rock ‘n’ roll. One where you sweat and swing your hair and don’t care.”
Unsurprisingly, the catchy tune has already receivedplentyof love from fans on social media, with some calling it an instant “bop.”
Lambert’s upcoming album will be her seventh solo record, following 2016’sThe Weight of These Wings, which included hits like “Vice,” “Tin Man” and “We Should Be Friends.” She also reteamed with her girl group, Pistol Annies, in 2018, releasing their third studio album together,Interstate Gospel, last November.
“I took a good break and I got to live life and just be a person for a while,” Lambert said of her much-needed time off. “Just being off the road, I took my time writing and enjoyed it instead of rushing like we always do.”
Looking back on everything she’s accomplished since her early days as an artist, Lambert told ET that if she knew what she knows now, she would tell her younger self to “keep the fire.”
“Because sometimes you get tired, you know?” she joked. “I’ve been doing this since I was 17. So, sometimes you get tired, but then I’m like, now I have more energy than ever. My fire is back and I still feel like the girl that was at ‘The House That Built Me’ era [in 2010].”
And Lambert is more than ready to hit the ground running again! In addition to new music, she’s also gearing up for the revival of her all-female Roadside Bars & Pink Guitars Tour.The tour kicks off Sept. 13 in Uncasville, Connecticut, and wraps Nov. 23 in Greensboro, North Carolina. It will also feature fellow country stars like Maren Morris, Elle King and Pistol Annies (find tickets and see the full list of tour dates here).
“Everybody has something amazing to offer, so I feel like, as we are girls, we need our girls’ night, and this is just a way for us to express it all together through music for our audience,” she explained. “It’s not going to be too much slinging our bras around … the guys are going to have a good time, too! But it’s just, it’s really cool to stand together.”