Rose-tinted optimism and hungover regret: They’re flip sides of a coin, both represented in Miranda Lambert’s Thursday night appearance on Late Night with Seth Meyers, where she rolled out a pair of deeper cuts from The Weight of These Wings, “Pink Sunglasses” and “Ugly Lights.”

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First up was “Pink Sunglasses,” the playful ode to choosing the garish over the practical, and to always being able to see the lighter side of things – even if it requires a little optical assistance to do so. Its fast-slow interplay between Lambert’s sassy, spoken-word interludes and the haughty, singsong chorus make for a slow burn, while “Ugly Lights,” despite its last-call defiance, strikes a more spritely, freewheeling tone.

Lambert is in the second week of her new summer concert jaunt, the Bandwagon Tour, which sees her co-headlining a run of dates in July and August with Little Big Town. Next up on their schedule is Friday’s show at Xfinity Theatre in Hartford, Connecticut.

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