Blake Shelton talks about breaking up with Twitter and mulling marriage to Miranda Lambert
Oklahoma country music star Blake Shelton recently ended his committed relationship with Twitter – by deleting the microblogging application from his smart phone.
“After I guess almost a year of being on Twitter, about three weeks ago I woke up one morning, and I was looking at it like I did every morning, and I said, ‘Man, I’ve got to move on with my life. I’m addicted to this stuff.’ I can’t think in the morning because all I can do is get on there and think, ‘All right, I’ve got to think of something funny to say to start this day,’” he told the Associated Press.
Shelton, 33, significantly raised his profile over the past year through his colorful – and sometimes controversial – participation on Twitter. The day he deleted the mobile app, Shelton had more than 76,000 followers.
“I think people are so used to country artists, celebrities, just kind of playing the middle and really not being themselves out of fear, that it was refreshing to them to get on Twitter and see well Blake Shelton wrote, ‘Oh my god, I got so drunk last night I think my liver exploded …,’” he said. “They’re going, ‘This guy is crazy. I can’t wait to see what he’s going to write next.’ Over time they realized, ‘Man, all the guy is doing is joking around,’” he told the AP.
In a recent phone interview, the hunting enthusiast said he particularly enjoyed using Twitter to poke fun at People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
“Oh, yeah, that’s one of my favorite pastimes is making fun of PETA. Anybody that attacks my way of life, they’re gonna hear about it from me. And of course, you know that I love to hunt and I was raised in a part of the country where people depend on raising cattle as a big part of their living and the way they make it in this world. And when somebody attacks that, I’m gonna have some things to say about it,” he told me.
The Ada native still Tweets, but not as often without the mobile application. Since the release of his “Hillbilly Bone” album earlier this month, his followers have actually increased to more than 81,000, thanks, in part, to the success of the album’s title track.
His “Hillbilly Bone” duet with longtime pal Trace Adkins just reached No. 1 on the Billboard Top Country Songs chart. It’s also nominated for vocal event of the year at next month’s Academy of Country Music Awards.
While Shelton has broken up with Twitter, he told the AP his relationship with fellow country star and his Tishomingo neighbor Miranda Lambert is solid. Shelton, who was divorced in 2006, said he is finally open to the idea of marriage again.
“Miranda and I have been together, it’s getting close to five years now,” he told the AP. “We’ve had our good years and our bad years and our really bad years. But I think right now, she and I have a stronger relationship than we’ve ever had, even in the early times when it was new and exciting, it still didn’t feel like it feels right now. We’ve been through a lot together, and we’ve toughed it out. It’s exciting to me.”
“Probably for the first time I can realistically say, I can see us being together forever,” he added. “I can see us getting married one day, maybe, where before you would never have gotten me to say something like that. As far as I’m concerned we’re definitely closer than we’ve ever been to maybe taking that step.”
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