Jelly Roll said it hurts him to see Miranda Lambert being dragged on social media after stopping a concert to scold a fan for taking a photo, but ...
"I understand the ladies wanting to take the picture, too."
The "Need a Favor" singer hardly dodged a question about general fan behavior with a middle-of-the-road answer. He just gets it from both sides.
"She's singing the most intimate song of her set," Jelly Roll tells Taste of Country Nights' Evan Paul.
"I don't know how she feels when she sings 'Tin Man.' I know when I sing 'She' on stage I am fighting everything in my soul not to cry — she might be like that when she sings 'Tin Man' or 'The House That Built Me.' You don't know how emotionally unstable some of these songs will make an artist."
Lambert stopped the song and scolded the fan during her Las Vegas residency show in July. One of the women involved would later give several interviews, sharing that it felt like she was back in school being scolded by the teacher.
Lambert never acknowledged the incident publicly.
A Taste of Country poll of readers found that most people sided with Lambert after the incident, with many saying the group of women would have been fine, had they chosen a different song to take a picture during.
"I judge people based on intentions. I know that Miranda would never be intentionally disrespectful to anybody," Jelly Roll shares. "I know that Miranda's heart is right.
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