Miranda Lambert Faces Backlash for Opening for Controversial Morgan Wallen: Fans Are Not Happy

Fans are baffled and angry that Miranda Lambert has agreed to play second fiddle to controversial crooner Morgan Wallen on his stadium tour this summer, but insiders say the country queen is making a strategically savvy career move!

Sources say that agreeing to be the opening act on Morgan’s I’m the Problem tour will allow Miranda, 41, to play much bigger venues than she can on her own and she also doesn’t mind cashing in on the massive paydays.

But longtime fans slammed the move online, with many objecting to her piggybacking onto the 31-year-old bad boy’s tour, especially after he narrowly escaped being tossed in the slammer last year after throwing a chair off the roof of a bar in Nashville that landed near two police officers. Wallen pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor counts of reckless endangerment and was sentenced to seven days incarceration at a DUI education center and probation.

The Whiskey Glasses singer had previously been blacklisted after being caught on video uttering racial slurs.

Miranda forever, but this comes as a shock,” said one.

Another wrote, “I’m so disappointed in both of you. May God forgive you both.” But for many more online commenters, Morgan wasn’t the problem, it was that Miranda, considered country royalty by many, has been relegated to second-class status on Morgan’s tour.

“You are not a side dish. You are a main course,” one fan wrote on social media.

“I’m so confused about why you’re opening for anyone.

You should be the headliner!” said another.

The Mama’s Broken Heart singer seemed to appreciate her fans’ point of view, replying, “It’s not wrong but it’s not right.” But a tipster in her camp explained there is a method to her “madness” in agreeing to be a supporting act for Morgan, whose tour kicks off in June.

“Hey, Miranda got her start warming up for Toby Keith and others in arenas and amphitheaters-it got her out of playing the honky-tonks and in front of a whole lot more people,” says the snitch.

“She’s graduated to playing arenas now, but she isn’t big enough to sell out football stadiums like Morgan does.

So she decided to go along for the ride and pick up new fans to get to the point where she herself can headline those stadiums. She’s a pretty savvy musical businesswoman! “Plus, it’s not like she and Morgan are strangers,” the mole points out. “They’ve been good pals for years and she’s looking forward to raising a little hell with him on this massive tour!”