Shamir Shares Miranda Lambert Cover

As part of their Theme Song series, Rookie enlists an artist to cover a song that has special meaning to them. The latest iteration features Las Vegas singer Shamir covering Miranda Lambert’s 2009 hit “The House That Built Me”. Listen below, via Stereogum. 

Shamir also offered some thoughts on his choice:

When you picked “The House That Built Me” to correspond with our First Person theme, what about it seemed like a good fit?

I love Miranda Lambert so much. When you told me the theme, I was like, “I have the perfect song! The song is so beautiful because it’s written like you’re telling a story to someone else. For the person singing it, you’re talking to a person living in a house that you’ve built with your family from the ground up, and grown up in, and have all these memories about. You’re letting the person know how special the house is, and all that you’ve done in it.

Read our “Rising” interview with Shamir.