We Should Be Friends

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"We Should Be Friends"
Miranda Lambert - We Should Be Friends.jpg
Single by Miranda Lambert
from the album The Weight of These Wings
ReleasedDecember 12, 2016 (2016-12-12)
Genre Country
Length2:50
Label RCA Nashville
Songwriter(s) Miranda Lambert
Producer(s)
Miranda Lambert singles chronology
"Vice"
(2016)
"We Should Be Friends"
(2016)
"Tin Man"
(2017)
Music videos
"We Should Be Friends" on YouTube

"We Should Be Friends" is a song written and recorded by American country music artist Miranda Lambert. It was released to radio on December 12, 2016, as the second single from Lambert's sixth studio album The Weight of These Wings (2016).

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Music video

The music video was directed by Trey Fanjoy and premiered on February 9, 2017. In it, Lambert is shown in a beauty salon getting a makeover and interacting with other patrons (which include songwriters Natalie Hemby and Waylon Payne) who are getting their hair curled with beer cans and gossiping. The video was filmed in Watertown, Tennessee and draws conceptual similarities to Legally Blonde . [1]

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (2016–2017)Peak
position
Canada Country ( Billboard ) [2] 20
US Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles ( Billboard ) [3] 6
US Country Airplay ( Billboard ) [4] 26
US Hot Country Songs ( Billboard ) [5] 25

Year-end charts

Chart (2017)Position
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard) [6] 80

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