I’ve followed Miranda Lambert’s music for years — through heartbreak ballads, spitfire anthems, and everything in between. But nothing quite prepared me for the moment she stepped onto the ACM Awards stage in 2025 and sang that song. The one she wrote a decade ago. The one fans always suspected carried echoes of a love that ended too soon. The one we now know as “Run.”

And what made it even more electric? Her ex-husband, Blake Shelton, was sitting in the audience.
You could feel it. The tension. The weight of the moment. The kind of stillness in the air when you know something personal is happening right in front of you — and everyone is holding their breath.
Let’s get something clear: Miranda Lambert never said Run was about Blake.
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