Mama's Broken Heart

The three writers began from a title idea; McAnally proposed an "Ain't Your Mama's" concept, and Clark said it came from his sister's breakup that his mother disliked, per CBS. After writing, Musgraves added a guitar part and hand claps. Musgraves said it is about generational differences between women and that sometimes you just have to let it out. Lambert says she asked Musgraves about it at the rehearsal dinner before her wedding and that Musgraves emailed days later agreeing if she could sing harmonies; Musgraves told NPR it was meant as her own first single and was pitched to Lambert without her knowledge, and that losing it led her to "Merry Go 'Round" (2012). Frank Liddell, Glenn Worf and Chuck Ainlay produced. It was released as a single on January 14, 2013, at 2:57 on the single and 2:59 on the album.

It reached 2 on Hot Country Songs and Country Airplay, 20 on the Hot 100, and 1 on Canada Country, and is 3x platinum per Wikipedia's table; CBS and MusicRow call it a number one. A party at Cabana in Nashville on September 11, 2013 honored the writers, and BMI's Clay Bradley called it the ultimate revenge song; Lambert said it was worth fighting for. It earned three ACM nominations in 2014, for Song of the Year, Single Record of the Year and Video of the Year. Trey Fanjoy directed the video. Setlist.fm shows 327 performances, and she told Cowboys and Indians that fights among women in the crowd led her to move it into the closing run of the show. Clark and McAnally performed it at the Country Music Hall of Fame on September 11, 2025. We found no other covers.